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Twitter Planning to Adopt Technological Ways to Stop the 140-Character Censor
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,...
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Got 1500 Facebook/Twitter Friends? Your Brain Can’t Even Handle 150
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...
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Twitter Inventors Launching Credit Card Swiper on iPhone [Video]
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...
Twitter Can Send You to Jail
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...
Power of Twitter; Facebook is Testing a Retweet like Feature
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...
Top 10 Tips for Social Network Addicts
When Jojo, our part-time Author wrote the article “Embedded Games like ‘Café World’ in Social Networking sites! Good or Evil?” it caused a stir among our readers who were divided in their opinion as to whether use of “Social Networking” is an addiction or it is okay to use them once in a while (including playing the embedded games that often come with them). This gave rise...
Beware: Twitter Can Get You ‘High’ This New Year!
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...








