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17 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

So Much For Google Buzz Being More Stable Than Twitter

As Twitter suffers through another period of sporadic downtime many critics have pointed to Google’s new service Buzz as an example of the type of social media service that doesn’t go down and seems to be able to scale with the number of users that have been adopting it. The only problem with the comparison [...]

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02 January 2010 ~ Comments Off

CT Twitter Traffic Alerts Available From Connecticut DOT

Connecticut Department of Transportation traffic alerts are now available free via Twitter. These helpful updates provide nearly instant notification of traffic tie-ups and accidents. You have the option to subscribe to a statewide feed or one of four different districts.

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24 December 2009 ~ Comments Off

Social Media T-Shirt For Creepy Oversharing Online Friends

Online retailer Despair.com has this cool social media t-shirt that sums up the world of being social online pretty well. Of course it doesn’t apply to you and me – but some of those creepy over-sharing people deserve this in their stocking . Cost is $15.95. Social Media T-Shirt – $15.95

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29 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

Tweetie 2.1 Upgrade Available In The iTunes App Store

Tweetie 2.1 is now available in the iTunes store. Tweetie is a very popular application used to broadcast Twitter messages  from the iPhone. The 2.1 upgrade has been eagerly anticipated because while the web based Twitter service added features such as geolocation and lists those features had yet to make it into most Twitter clients. [...]

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20 November 2009 ~ View Comments

Twitter Adds Geotagging Support

Twitter has just enabled geotagging support for all accounts. This features, which is turned off by default and must be enabled, tags each of your tweets with your location. Once application updates are released that use this feature it will be much easier to view locations of people at an event, such as a concert [...]

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