2010 - Social Media Expert

Facebook Goes Down – Millions Scream

Last night Facebook suffered an outage. It wasn’t a particularly long outage, but due to the site’s sheer size the impact of the outage was felt globally. Millions of people were forced to talk to their spouses, girlfriends, co-workers and neighbours face to face (in real life). Oh no!

TSA Spoof Twitter Account

Unless you have been avoiding the news and social networks for the last few weeks you’re probably aware of the TSA’s latest. The TSA was setup after 9/11 to: …strengthen the security of the nation’s transportation systems while ensuring the freedom of movement for people and commerce. Within a year, TSA assumed responsibility for security…

Twitter Turns On SMS Notifications

Twitter announced that they were giving people the option of getting SMS notifications of @replies and “mentions”. Unfortunately it looks like anyone who had SMS on for any type of notification was automatically opted in to receive ALL notifications. Kinda annoying.

Irish Public Servants To Get Premium Social Media Training

You gotta love Ireland. In the midst of the doom and gloom of an economic crisis somebody somewhere got the “bright” idea of sending councillors off to learn about social media. At the cost of about €500 a person of taxpayers money you’d have to wonder what they were thinking .. More here and here

The Social Network On Release In Ireland – What Do People Think Of It?

Last weekend The Social Network went on general release in the UK and Ireland. It’s currently playing in most of the cinema chains across Ireland and seems to have been well received. Have you seen it? If you have, what did you think of it? Seemingly Mark Zuckerberg isn’t overly impressed with it, but then…

Twitter Gets New CEO

Twitter has a new CEO. You can read more about it over on TheNextWeb

Year: 2010