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  • Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?

    Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?

    Last weekend the news broke that Facebook was acquiring Instagram for $1 billion. Needless to say the tech news circles were buzzing with this announcement all week. According to an article on TheNextWeb Twitter had also tried to acquire them, but failed. And others suggest that Google may have been trying to acquire them ..…

  • Twitter Sells Tweets

    Twitter Sells Tweets

    With most social networks the users are the product. In the case of Twitter one of the problems the company has been struggling with is how to actually make money from it all .. So selling their content ie. their users’ tweets appears to be one of the solutions. According to an article on RWW…

  • CoTweet Standard Being Pulled

    CoTweet Standard, which is used by a lot of companies to manage Twitter for teams, is being withdrawn on February 15th From then on CoTweet will only be offered as a paid service under a new name “SocialEngage” There aren’t much details about SocialEngage on the CoTweet / Exact Target site unfortunately, nor is there…

  • Guinness Try To Force Age Restrictions On Twitter

    Guinness Ireland’s Twitter account is a bit odd. They want to restrict their followers to people over the age of 18! Of course I’m not “following” their account, but I can still see all their content! And here’s the screenshot to prove it: I think the word I’m looking for is “fail” They’ve posted a…

  • Fox Twitter Account Hacked?

    Looks like one of the Fox News Twitter accounts may have been hacked, as it’s spewing “news” of Obama’s death .. See screenshot below: If this is a prank it’s in pretty bad taste .. So I would assume that the account has been compromised .. and since it’s July 4th in the US it…

  • Twitter Hits New Record

    Twitter has released another new statistic It’s now doing 200 million “tweets” per day. In January 2009 they were “only” sending 2 million / day. Here’s a nice graphic to show how that all compares with various other things: There’s a full blog post about it over on the official twitter blog. Of course they’re…