Twitter users in the UK have been angry today over the conviction of a Doncaster (South Yorkshire) man who threatened to blow up Sheffield/Doncaster Robin Hood airport in a joke tweet. His appeal against his conviction failed today and the 27-year old accountant is now the first person in the UK to be convicted of [...]

Categories: Misc

There was a time when the thought of Twitter made my stomach turn. All those yuppies suddenly talking about ‘tweets’ and ‘tweeple’ made me want to gag. Facebook I had less of a problem with but since I had just sort of ended my relationships with MySpace and Friendster (remember Friendster?), I was slightly bitter [...]

Categories: travelling geek

Evan Williams, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter is to stand down as Chief Executive Officer of the company to move into a role that will allow him to help make Twitter more profitable, according to a report by the BBC. Announcing the news, understandably in a Tweet, he said Twitter had to “meet [...]

Categories: The Web

Twitter has today updated its website to patch a flaw that was allowing spammers to cause multiple pop-ups with links to porn websites. The code has beens spread by worms and thousands of people around the world have been caught out.  The self-replicating worm exploited a cross scripting (XSS) vulnerability and used just a small [...]

Categories: Security

A Twitter newspaper? How can that work considering that Twitter limits the number of characters to 140? That were my questions when I first heard about Paper.li, a web service that offers to create said newspapers for users of its website. Users who want to create their own newspapers need a free account, that they [...]

Categories: The Web

Search engines have improved their capabilities over the years to integrate near realtime information in their search engine results. Lately, many search engines decided that it would be a good idea to integrate Twitter results. This frankly did not yield the desired “freshness update” the search engines where hoping for, largely because of the amount [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Most users of the popular messaging platform Twitter use the website to post their messages. Some users may use browser add-ons, mobile devices, or desktop applications as well, as they offer several advantages. Tweek Auto Post is a free software for Windows that offers more than the standard “post a message to Twitter” functionality. All [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Twitter’s micro-blogging service has always been popular, and with people such as Stephen Fry entertaining the masses, it’s popularity can only grow as more and more people sign up to follow the musings of person A or X. Now though the service has recorded it’s 20 billionth tweet from a graphic designed based on Tokyo [...]

Categories: Misc

Twitter is a hugely popular messaging service that allows anyone to post messages, followers automatically see the messages in their accounts and everyone else might stumble upon them by searching Twitter messages. The standard procedure to post a new message is to open the Twitter website, log into the account and enter the text of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox