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@Twitter: Sure You Can Now Upload Images But You Won’t Know Squat!

Twitter nevertheless keeps a tight fits on analytics and when you do share an image through Twitter you can say goodbye to the number of times your picture has been seen. This move will surely speak to the hurried folks and those not caring about analytics.

Twitter Looking For More Revenue, Advertising Moves One More Notch Up

Timely Tweets: Through its blog today, Twitter announced today that it would be moving tweets from select companies and promoted tweets (currently only appearing in the list of trends) higher up in our timelines.

iOS 5: Move Over Email, Twitter Is Here

It is with great fanfare that iOS 5 was unveiled at the WWDC 2011 in San Francisco today. One of the notable features announced today is the take over by Twitter of the email function in iOS 5.

The First Ever Official Twitter-Fight Just Happened

“I don’t think anybody out there in the media, UN, human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda” Is this an example of rhetoric 2.0 that we’ll be witnessing in the future? Or will this serve as further deterrent to all public figures out there to — despite bowing to social media pressures to “be public” and engaged — should “stay put” and not engage in confrontations Will we — with the U.S. 2012 presidential elections — witness unprecedented volumes of conversations and tweet-fights? I am pretty sure that the future promises to be very fun on socio-planet. What’s the craziest Twitter sparing you can imagine, featuring political figures among themselves, with journalists, supporters or constituents?

New on Twitter: 1,000,000 Words in 140 Characters

Today, Twitter unveiled its long awaited photo and video sharing, not only leaving the likes of Twitpic, Yfrog and Twitvid in the dust… with a twist: pushing hashtags. In watching the official unveiling video below, Twitter is smartly appealing to users’ love-hate relationship with the ubiquitous 140 characters limit: too limiting to ramble but fantastic to consume and digest.

How To Use Twitter To Support Tourism

15,000 cancellations from tourists around the world since the Argana bombing in Marrakech. Wondering how you can help the Red City ride out the storm… all the while having fun and making new friends?

Falling in Love: How to, Magically, Make Twitter Relevant To Your Business [VIDEO]

What’s most notable in the way Aassma — @Fanajeen picked up the Twitter essence, is her lightning fast realization after just 10 weeks of picking up Twitter, that when she started really and honestly hearing her nascent community and demonstrating a genuine interest, whatever business message she had in mind to push out, ‘magically’ became relevant to that community. Without the need to feel awkward, clunky or to try and wrap business messages inside hollow sounding and futile niceties to make them attractive and relevant.

Twitter Enables DIY Disaster Relief in Indonesia

Indonesians, who were the victims of earthquakes, a tsunami, and volcanic eruptions last month, are finding help from an unlikely source: Twitter. Indonesia is a country composed of 17,000 islands, and organizing aid relief efforts has proved a challenge, particularly in regions where infrastructure was destroyed, reports Reuters. So enterprising and tech-savvy citizens are taking [...]

How To Get Addicted To Twitter — INFOGRAPHIC

Any story culminating in a group hug is always great. The path to Twitter ‘addiction’ is one of those stories.

Is Twitter Stuck In Mental Masturbation Mode?

The “talkative” 20% just needs to get their heads out of their bubble, look around and find a better way to engage non-peers in participating (it can be intimidating y’all!); i.e. potential customers. 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month and new users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day or over 3 per second.