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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a cool idea for the Twitter addict in your life – it’s customizable with any tweet you like and advertises for people to follow you on Twitter.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbn4E-yFOxc[/youtube]Here’s a 16 minute video walk through of the new Twhirl beta. This software is a client for reading and replying to Twitter messages (as well as interacting with several other online services). Brand new features include: Viewing all messages where your @name is mentioned — not just those where it is at the beginning [...]
