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The First Twitter Séance: Commercial Exploitation Gone Mad
Get ready everybody; the world’s first online séance is taking place. That’s right, someone’s invented another method of violating micro-blogging medium Twitter, and plans to hold the first ‘Tweance’ on Friday October 30th to apparently coincide with Halloween which, confusingly, is on 31st October. ‘Natural clairvoyant medium’ Jayne Wallace of tabloid newspaper fame will quiz... »
Facebook Continues To CTRL+C Twitter
They say imitation’s the sincerest form of flattery, but whoever ‘they’ are I’m inclined to disagree. As someone who was Single White Female’d in the past, my personal stance on it is that imitation is not flattery at all, it’s annoying and a little sad at best, and at worst downright creepy. With yesterday’s latest... »
Twitter Sets Up Lily Allen With BBC TMS Commentary Gig
Having hinted already that Pop sensation, Lily Allen will be sitting next to him in the BBC Test Match Special (TMS) Oval commentary box during Saturday’s play in the 5th and final Ashes Test, Jonathan ‘Aggers’ Agnew has again been dropping more hints than the England selectors should be dropping players. It all began when... »
Facebook Puts Google And Twitter On Notice
In what many industry pundits are considering a direct attack against search giant Google, social networking site Facebook have purchased the ‘real-time’ search engine FriendFeed. While many were expecting Google or even micro-blogging site Twitter to purchase the content sharing site, which has become popular with the increasingly social nature of the web, Facebook’s acquisition... »
The Fat Bird Tweets
Is Twitter set to take over? Oh no, that’s Google, but Twitter is growing rapidly – first for breaking news, used by footballers to drive through transfers, used to get Lily Allen into the TMS commentary box and now used as a platform with which to compose an opera! That’s right; the Royal Opera House... »
Twitter Hack Attack
Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter has been hacked by a ‘denial of service attack’ leaving the entire site down from around 15:00 BST. Twitter had to defend against the attack thus closing down the site and leaving many of the 45 million + users unable to Tweet. Facebook suffered a similar problem at the same time and although... »
Lily Allen Pickles Her Fancy For Cricket And Onions
So Lily Allen, Britain’s very own Queen of Pop, has expressed her love of cricket – and in particular England fast bowler Graham Onions – via Twitter. Lily Tweeted her Onions desire on Monday whilst keeping tabs on the fifth and final day’s play of the third Ashes Test. Allen cheekily tweeted: ‘i think i fancy... »
New Twitter Hashtag Brings Out The Inner Hack
A Twitter hashtag created on Friday morning has created yet another Sports related Twitter online stir, this time surrounding an England fast bowler. As Graham Onions cut through Australia’s top order, ‘Onions’ became a main trending topic on Twitter, causing confusion among non-cricketing Twitterers. Off the back of Onions performance a new hashtag ‘#Punions’ was created... »
Unprofessional Behaviour From Bent But Don’t Outlaw Twitter
First it was Australia’s Philip Hughes, now Spurs striker Darren Bent has used Twitter to leak news about his career to the dismay of the people who pay his wages. Hughes tweeted news that he had been dropped for the 3rd Ashes Test match against the wishes of Team Australia who would rather that information... »
Twitter Breaks The News Again
Twitter is fast becoming the communication tool of choice and has again beaten all other mediums to breaking news. News that Australia had dropped opening batsman Phillip Hughes for the Third Ashes Test came straight from the horse’s mouth via the micro-blogging phenomenon. Hughes tweeted his own bad news to his followers: ‘Disappointed not to be on... »