Twitter may be the buzz word today, your granny may be a Facebook junkie, the cat of the cute girl next door may be a Flickr sensation; but as much as you may pretend to ignore it — Social Networking is more dangerous than drugs! And when we are dealing with something as dangerous as the addictiveness of the Social Networking sites we couldn’t be more careful. Because if we don’t, it can... 

The URL shortener market, which is undeniably overcrowded, is about to get a lot smaller. Twitter recently announced that they will soon begin to pass all shared links through their own URL shortener.  This would apply to any link posted using the web interface or through third party Twitter applications like Tweetdeck. Their goal is to eliminate the mystery of shortened links and prevent harmful... 

Twitter launched its new tool called “Blackbird Pie” (aka “Embed this tweet” feature) yesterday, that allows you (bloggers) to easily embed tweets into a website or blog post in much the same way as you embed videos from YouTube or other websites. The tool simply asks you for the URL of a tweet, once you copy that in and hit “Bake it,” you get back a preview of how it’ll look on the... 

Twitter announced their long-awaited advertising model last night: Promoted Tweets. Companies and people will be able to purchase tweets that will show up first in certain search results or right in people’s tweet streams. Which, if you rewind the clock a few years, is exactly the sort of thing that used to get people all upset with search engine results…and is one of the (many) reasons... 

A site more or less built around shortened links, Twitter is a veritable Candyland for Phishing scammers — a phenomenon that has really taken hold in the past year or so. But looks like the recent LOL phishing scam that ultimately became a huge spam wave has made Twitter to put some breaks on such attempts and Twitter is finally being proactive about the large number of phishing scams that... 

Video of Twitter Phishing: The BZPharma ‘LOL this is funny’ Attack A phishing attack that began striking U.S. Twitter profiles last weekend is still going strong and isn’t showing any signs of letting up. As VentureBeat reports, the scam operates through a direct message reading, “Lol. this you?” Once users click on it, they’re sent to a fake Twitter login page,... 

Twitter is a quasi-perfect virtual (online) democratic community: if people find it hard to digest your words and opinion, they can (and they will) vote with their fingers! It takes just a quick click, i.e. choosing the unfollow or block features, and your twitter feed is removed forever from their life causing the end of your twitter story. Ironically, for businesses small and large, the goal of... 

Google just unveiled its most ambitious attempt to build a social networking site, called Google Buzz. But what is it? Part email, part Facebook, part Twitter, part Friendfeed and part Foursquare. Google Buzz is directly integrated with Gmail and, although not yet available to all users, is expected to be rolled out into all accounts within a week. It’s natural that when you hear about a brand... 

Twitter has been focusing on the site lately a bit more than usual. The API still gets the lion’s share of attention, but a couple of new and rather big features have been popping up at Twitter.com for the past few months. The latest one isn’t exactly a game-changer, but it’s a welcome addition. Twitter has introduced a new feature called Hovercards. These are simply little windows... 

Twitter is looking into ways to stop the site coming under the same censorship problems as Google and hopes to make itself completely non-sanitized. According to widespread reports, Twitter is trying to stop its service being censored or blocked by foreign governments such as those of Iran and China. According to Chief Executive Evan Williams, who was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos,... 

No matter how many friends you have on social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter or Orkut, the human brain is capable of handling up to a maximum of 150 pals only, a new study has claimed. A professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University has found out that human beings are physically limited to being able to link up and manage up to 150 friends at most, regardless of any other... 

Apple may have its own in-store, handheld “cash” registers using modified iPod Touches, but what if you, too, want a slick and small credit-card payment system? Sure, you could get one of those chunky, cellular card-readers on loan from the credit card company. Or you could get a dongle for your iPhone. We all know that the iPhone can do many things — and processing credit card transactions... 

Yeah I know that the title of the article sounds exaggerated and improbable. But if you are James A. Roppo, an event organizer or Paul Chambers, the 26 year British citizen then you know that it is so real. Both of them were arrested for completely opposite reasons that incidentally involved Twitter, the micro-blogging system. First Man Arrested For Not Using Twitter! We know exactly how popular Twitter... 

Starting 16th Jan evening, Facebook has began testing what appears to be their version of Twitter’s Retweet feature, called: “via”. On any article shared by your friend, you can click on “Share” and when you post the article to your profile, Facebook will now automatically say who the article came from. While the “via” content only currently works on shared articles, I’d assume that... 

Here is a funny yet interesting news. It’s about our favorite social networking site Twitter. But before I start, let me ask you few questions first! Do you drink? Do you drive? If your answer is “Yes” for both the questions then, do you do these things simultaneously? If your answer is “Yes” again, it’s the time to have your name displayed on Twitter I’m not kidding. The Houston Police... 

Twitter’s international traffic continues to stagnate as the microblogging site’s number of unique visitors flattened in November. Twitter’s traffic might still be ranked #14 by Alexa at the moment but the truth is, Twitter’s growth has been on a serious decline over the past couple of quarters. Twitter had 60.3 million unique visitors in the month of November compared to 58.3 million... 

In terms of technological highlights and the breakthrough of gadgets and applications, 2009 is probably the most successful year in a long time. This is the year when smartphones took off with the application market becoming worth over a $1 billion, everyone and his dog began to ‘tweet’ and real-time search became the new goal for software giants the world round. Beginning of ‘The... 

It was a big news when Twitter started selling tweets to Google and Microsoft (Bing), roughly a month back. Following the foot steps of Twitter, MySpace and Facebook have signed deals with Google to share real-time search data. Google has begun adding real time results to its search engine, channeling feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries. And it is... 

In recent past, we’ve seen corporates utilize Twitter’s services more and more to get in touch with their customers. But Twitter has to make some money too. That’s why the micro-blogging service is set to launch paid business accounts next year, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. But no need to worry Corporate Companies. It’s NOT the end of the world for you; not yet. You guys will... 

I agree that Twitter is arguably one of the best social networking platforms at the moment with its enormous power to offer vivid, lustrous universe of new friends, new ideas, hilarious little punch lines and occasionally even a sparkle of breaking news. When a platform comes with such attractive features, unfortunately, it also attracts a horde of people trying to promote their business. I don’t...