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Did Twitter Forget to Update its Copyright Year?

Did Twitter Forget to Update its Copyright Year?
I noticed a strange thing today on Twitter's homepage. Its already end of the first month of 2010 and Twitter's homepage is still showing Copyright year 2009!! I don't know if they have done this purposefully or just forgot to update the year. See the below screenshot. ... Full story
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Following @viralpatelnet

Following @viralpatelnet
Twitter, Twitter Little Star, How I wonder how big you are, Up about the Internet so high, Like a diamond in the sky! Twitter is on CNN, Twitter is on ESPN, Twitter is on Techmeme, Twitter is on Techcrunch, Twitter is everywhere. Twitter has became a buzz word in past years. So how can we avoid it! So there we are.. @viralpatelnet Follow @viralpatelnet ... Full story
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Display Twitter User Image on your Blog/Website in 2 Minutes

Display Twitter User Image on your Blog/Website in 2 Minutes
Twitter API has became a powerful way of getting information about a twitter user and her activities. In my previous tutorial we saw how to create a simple twitter reader in 5 minutes. Let us see how to get the User Image (or Avatar) from Twitter and display it anywhere you want. So how ... Full story
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If Twitter Consisted of 100 People!

What if the popular microblogging website, Twitter had only 100 users? Based on the data from a survey InformationIsBeautiful blog has constructed these gorgeous graphics showing the Twitter (Twitter) community represented as 100 people. Following conclusion can be drawn from this wonderful picture: There are more Women than Men Most of Twitter users are lazy. They don't tweet frequently Wednesday is best to promote ... Full story
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Pillows for you: Try these Social Media Pillow

Pillows for you: Try these Social Media Pillow
You will find those Social Media buttons on most of the blogs and websites you visit these days. Even we have one such button panel at the end of each post which lets user share the story with their favorite social website. But guess what, Chicago-based Twitter user @craftsquatch has created series of pillows hand decorated to represent your favorite social networking sites, might be what ... Full story
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Creating a simple Twitter Reader(Client) in 5 minutes!!

Creating a simple Twitter Reader(Client) in 5 minutes!!
Twitter, The popular micro blogging and real time update site has changed the way we interact in internet world. Not only it has became a source of latest updates/news going in world, but also an addiction to lot of those who tweets regularly. Twitter has provided lots of API that can be used to Get the latest ... Full story
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Breaking News: Twitter hit by StalkDaily Virus

Breaking News: Twitter hit by StalkDaily Virus
Yesterday the popular micro blogging site Twitter got attacked by a worm called StalkDaily. What it does is that virus will auto-tweet this message: "Hey everyone, join StalkDaily.com. It's a site like Twitter but with pictures, videos and so much more." At worst, it may lock you out of your Twitter account.... Full story
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Google starts twitting: Says I’m feeling lucky

Google starts twitting: Says I'm feeling lucky
Google has started using Twitter and the first tweet that the official account of Google sent out is: “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010″ If you convert all the 1's and 0's in a byte into ascii characters, the message is: I'm F E E L ... Full story
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Google Maps and Twitter mashup show UK snowfall !!

Google Maps and Twitter mashup show UK snowfall !!
A wonderful map created by Ben Marsh combines Google Maps with tagged Twitter messages. A twitter user has to send a hash tweet with her postal code and a number between 0 to 10 representing snowfall in her area. This data will then automatically displayed on Ben Marsh's Google Map, ... Full story
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Morning Madness!! Barack Obama’s twitter account hacked.

Morning Madness!! Barack Obama's twitter account hacked.
Twitter: the popular microblogging site, was hit by hackers and 33 high profile accounts including that of Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama was compromised. The attack just followed last weekend phishing attack on website. Hackers were able to get into the back end admin tools that twitter team uses to manage profiles of different people. Soon ... Full story
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