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Lo and behold, Google has just introduced (or copied!) yet another feature from one of its key competitors Twitter! Yes, you can now add celebrities, journalists, photographers, and more to your circles to see what they’re sharing publicly using a new feature in Google+ called “Suggested User list”. Unarguably, Google’s ...

Lo and behold, Indian Government wants to monitor the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, RIM (Research In Motion) and Google! Yes, the Indian government has just started out to pressurize the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter to provide access to their servers. Previously it had insisted that RIM should grant ...

Twitter, like Gmail and Facebook also allows you to configure your account – such that you can always use HTTPS when accessing your twitter account. Facebook and Twitter, earlier only used HTTPS encryption security during the login and later switched to the normal HTTP based browsing. This was primarily done because implementing HTTPS ...

As per the reports, Twitter has secured another round of funding of $200 million at a valuation of $3.4 billion. Twitter had earlier informed that in 2010, 25 billion tweets were sent out and that it had registered a 100 million new users. Dick Costolo confirmed on the Twitter blog that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & [...]

Twitter has released Top Trends on Twitter in 2010 and it contains some very interesting stats. As per the report, a total of 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010 by users of which Gulf Oil Spill dominates the list of top trending topic on Twitter. In order to come out with Twitter trends, wonderful [...]

If you run your blog or website on WordPress, you have a better way of embedding actual twitter tweets. This can be done through the Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress plugin. Following are the features offered by Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress plugin. TinyMCE editor button to easily search and embed a tweet Support for the built-in [...]

Twitter is now offering time bound deals using a special handle callled @earlybird. @earlybird will be used to provide special time-bound deals, sneak-peeks, and events. Here are some important notes about @earlybird account by Twitter. 1.) For the tweets which go out through @earlybird handle, Twitter will partner with select advertisers and ...