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  • Poppy Appeal calls for Twitter silence on Remberance Day

    Poppy Appeal calls for Twitter silence on Remembrance Day

    No tweets at 11am on 11/11 6 November 2009 14:54 GMT

    The Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal has called for the annual 2-minute silence to extend online this year.

    The organisation has asked Twitter users to observe the 2-minutes' silence on Remembrance Day by sending no tweets during this period via its Twitter...

  • Palestinian street named after Twitter account

    Palestinian street named after Twitter account

    "Where are you @?" 6 November 2009 12:04 GMT

    It's being reported that a street has been named after a Twitter username in the Palestinian West Bank. In the Askar refugee camp, close to the city of Nablus, a road has been named "@ arjanelfassed tweetstreet", after the user @arjanelfassed.

    A Dutch charity,...

  • Twitter rolls out retweet feature, slowly

    Twitter rolls out retweet feature, slowly

    Access granted to a "very small percentage of accounts" 6 November 2009 9:48 GMT

    Twitter has announced on its blog that it's beginning the rollout of its promised retweets feature. The company said: "We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild".

    Retweets originally...

  • Image Credit: TechCrunch

    Twitter testing new tweet notifictions

    Website becomes even more real-time 5 November 2009 9:17 GMT

    Twitter has dropped a message onto its status blog to say that it's testing a new set of notifications for those who use Twitter.com to interact with the service. If you see a yellow bar at the top of your Twitter stream on the site, then don't be alarmed.

    It'll...

  • TwitterPeek UK bound?. Phones, Mobile phones, Twitter, Twitterpeek, peek, Social networking 0

    TwitterPeek UK bound?

    British people Twitter too 5 November 2009 3:48 GMT

    Twitterpeek, the dedicated Twitter device announced earlier in the week in the US could be making its way to the UK in the early part of next year according to the company behind it.

    "Someday TwitterPeek will cross the pond to the UK. someday could be early next...

  • TwitterPeek device aims to appeal to the Twitterholic. Phones, Mobile phones, Twitter, Twitterpeek, peek, Social networking 0

    TwitterPeek device aims to appeal to the Twitterholic

    Forget everything else - Twitter is the way to communicate 3 November 2009 16:19 GMT

    Peek, the company that offers a dedicated handheld email device, has today announced a new device just for twitterholics.

    The TwitterPeek as it is called, is a dedicated colour screen, QWERTY keyboard sporting device that allows users to dump their smartphones,...

  • Twitter widgets brings Twitter to the rest of the Web. Software, Online, Twitter, Social networking 0

    Twitter widgets brings Twitter to the rest of the Web

    Real-time updates in handy widgets 3 November 2009 4:14 GMT

    Twitter has released a new "goodie" that allows users to display lists on their site as they update.

    Called Twitter widgets, the new feature "lets you display Twitter updates on your website or social network page" according to the blurb on the new widgets page.

    Users...

  • Hallowe'en Twitter Tweance celebs named

    Hallowe'en Twitter Tweance celebs named

    List of four is surprisingly Elvis-free 30 October 2009 11:16 GMT

    The identities of the four dead celebrities a tabloid pyschic will try and contact in the world's first Twitter seance have been revealed.

    The "Tweance", a paranormal publicity stunt for Hallowe'en, will see Jayne Wallace attempt to get in touch with pop star...

  • Quick guide to Twitter Lists

    Quick guide to Twitter Lists

    Handy how to in creating, managing, deleting and following the new Lists feature 30 October 2009 5:42 GMT

    Twitter Lists has now come to the masses and with it a host of new questions on what they do, how you can benefit from them, and more importantly how they work.

    Let Pocket-lint guide you through the new features whether it's creating, managing, deleting or just...

  • Twitter brings Lists to the masses

    Twitter brings Lists to the masses

    Open to virtually everyone it seems 30 October 2009 3:22 GMT

    Millions of Twitter users awoke on Friday morning to be welcomed with a new feature on their twitter homepage - Lists.

    Although the new feature was formally announced earlier in the month, Twitter has to date been keeping the use of the list feature, that allows...

  • Sonos Software 3.1 with Twitter support released

    Sonos Software 3.1 with Twitter support released

    Update will let users tweet their tunes 27 October 2009 14:25 GMT

    We brought you news this was incoming, and it's now been released as Sonos makes the Sonos Software 3.1 available to all Sonos users globally.

    The free one-button update integrates Twitter into the Sonos Controller interface, which means Sonos users can send the...

  • Mozilla announces Raindrop communcations project

    Mozilla announces Raindrop communcations project

    An "online conversation aggregator" 23 October 2009 13:47 GMT

    Mozilla has announced an interesting project called Raindrop, which appears massively complicated on the surface but is actually quite a simple idea when you strip it free of buzzwords.

    Mozilla (like Google, with its Wave platform) says that "email isn't fun any...

  • Twitter expands Lists availability

    Twitter expands Lists availability

    More people get to create their top 10s, 100s, 1000s, 23 October 2009 3:30 GMT

    If you've just accessed your Twitter page and seen that you now have the ability to create and manage lists, then you are one of the 5% of Twitter users that Twitter opened up the service to.

    "We are expanding availability of Lists to 5% of users and will work...

  • Google shouts "me too" with twitter search deal

    Google shouts "me too" with twitter search deal

    Status updates coming to Googleplex 21 October 2009 22:21 GMT

    Google has moved in to steal Bing's thunder by announcing it will be adding tweets to its search pages.

    "At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged",...

  • Twitter comes to Bing

    Twitter comes to Bing

    Facebook to come, but later 21 October 2009 19:45 GMT

    Microsoft's digital head Qi Lu has confirmed, as rumoured earlier today, that it has signed a non-exclusive deal with Twitter and Facebook to provide status updates to its Bing search engine.

    The two new services will allow users to use Bing to search tweets in...

  • Twitter and Facebook Status updates coming to Bing

    Twitter and Facebook Status updates coming to Bing

    Live search coming to Microsoft search engine 21 October 2009 18:50 GMT

    Microsoft is about to sign up both Twitter and Facebook in a non-exclusive deal to help improve the Bing search engine.

    The deal, which will see both sites integrate their real-time feed of status updates into the Bing search engine is, if true, expected to give...

  • Thetrainline.com offers free iPhone app

    Thetrainline.com offers free iPhone app

    Journey planning with a Twitter twist 21 October 2009 16:13 GMT

    Kizoom and online rail ticket retailer, thetrainline.com, has launched a new UK train journey planning iPhone app with the added bonus being that it is free, unlike the National Rail option that'll cost you a fiver. 

    Covering the entire UK rail network, thetrainline.com...

  • U2 concert to be broadcast live on YouTube

    U2 concert to be broadcast live on YouTube

    "U2Tube" 20 October 2009 15:46 GMT

    Fans of U2 will be able to watch the band's upcoming performance from the Rose Bowl in LA live on U2's YouTube channel.

    Described as the first global concert webcast, those in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico,...

  • Vicon Revue camera launched

    Vicon Revue camera launched

    Takes a photo every thirty seconds, all day long 19 October 2009 10:16 GMT

    Vicon has announced that within the next few months it'll be launching its intriguing Vicon Revue digital camera. The idea behind the Revue is that it sits on a cord around your neck all day taking photos at predetermined intervals - as often as every thirty seconds.

    It...

  • VIDEO: Twitter to offer own-brand pinot noir

    VIDEO: Twitter to offer own-brand pinot noir

    Micro-blogging service expands beyond the grapevine 16 October 2009 17:17 GMT

    What will soon be the only wine to serve to the tech savvy at San Fran dinner parties? Twitter wine!

    As part of a charity initiative the micro-blogging site has revealed it is to team up with Crushpad and Fledgling Wine to raise money for Room to Read, an organisation...

  • Lists come to Twitter...

    Lists come to Twitter...

    ...Well for some anyway 16 October 2009 6:37 GMT

    Twitter has started to roll out its Lists feature to some twitter users, allowing them to create lists of their favourite or most relevant twitter folk.

    The new offering, which isn't available to everyone at the moment, gives the opportunity for those lucky enough...

  • Xbox 360 Dashboard preview program reopens

    Xbox 360 Dashboard preview program reopens

    Get a first look at the new features 15 October 2009 11:11 GMT

    Microsoft has, just like earlier in the year, offered its users the chance to take a look at the forthcoming dashboard upgrade a little early in the hope of getting rid of any bugs that testers might not have spotted.

    The next version of the dashboard will have,...

  • Twitter announces Bharti Airtel text partnership

    Twitter announces Bharti Airtel text partnership

    Largest mobile operator in India gets micro-blogging 15 October 2009 10:00 GMT

    As part of its plans to "partner with organizations that share our vision for positive global impact", Twitter has announced a partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India.

    This team-up means a "huge population" of people can now send...

  • Twitter declares war on spammers

    Twitter declares war on spammers

    Lets you report spam bots 14 October 2009 3:17 GMT

    Twitter, it seems, hates spammers as much as you do and to show how much it has added a new button to the site that allows you to report an account as such.

    "Today we've added another tool to our spam fighting toolbox that will give users the ability to flag bad...

  • Twitter forces legal climbdown

    Twitter forces legal climbdown

    Guardian claims victory over gagging order 13 October 2009 15:54 GMT

    If you'd glanced at Twitter on the morning of 13 October, you'd have been surprised - a commodities trading company called Trafigura, which most people haven't heard of, and a law firm that specialises in media, Carter Ruck, were both in the "trending topics" section,...

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