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Why Feedback and Filters are Necessary in Social Media

Joe — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:05:44 +0000

Howard Greenstein is a Social Media Strategy and Marketing consultant, and President of the Harbrooke Group . He’s also a national board member of Social Media Club

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Twitpic Launches Face Tagging

Joe — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:23:52 +0000

Just one week after announcing Events grouping for photos, Twitpic is rolling out Face Tagging. Just as you do on Facebook, you can now tag images of you and your friends and acquaintances on Twitpic.

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Twitter for BlackBerry gets updated

Joe — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:03:39 +0000

Official Twitter clients are getting an awful lot of love today. This morning, Twitter relaunched and re-branded Tweetie 2 as Twitter for iPhone 3 , and just a little while ago the good folks at RIM were nice enough to let us know that the revamped version of Twitter for BlackBerry is en route. The new version, which will stay in beta, has a slew of new and user-requested features, including: Quote Tweets Ability to edit ReTweets Auto Complete for @ usernames When you type an “@” followed by characters, the auto complete feature pops up a list of users as you type View Geotagged Tweets View locations of geotagged tweets on BlackBerry Maps Personal Info Guard Warning appears when sharing personal information (e.g

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Tweetdeck Working On A BlackBerry Twitter App?

Joe — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:28:35 +0000

As we see more and more Twitter apps pop up for the BlackBerry platform, one question that always seems to arise is “When will we see TweetDeck on BlackBerry?”. Desktop and iPhone users have been making use of TweetDeck for a while now and Android, BlackBerry users have been kind of, left in the dark. Today however, TweetDeck posted to their Twitter account the above information letting everyone know an Android and BlackBerry app are on the way

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Official Twitter for BlackBerry Leaked Online

Joe — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:08:02 +0000

We posted this on the BlackBerryCool Facebook page , but in case you missed it, the Twitter for BlackBerry Beta version 1.0.0.37 has been leaked online . Download Twitter for BlackBerry Beta version 1.0.0.37. If you’d like know more about what BlackBerryCool thinks of it, check out: The Official BlackBerry Twitter App Impressions Also see a community review here: The Official BlackBerry Twitter App Impressions

Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

Joe — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:10:32 +0000

Justin Bieber’s imperial reign over the Twitterverse remains uncontested for the fourth straight week, thanks to the release of his new album “My World 2.0″ and the recent arrest of his manager. Our friends at What The Trend have crunched the numbers for us, and provided a week-long measure of what’s been hot on Twitter. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart below

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Happy Birthday Twitter!

Joe — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:37:41 +0000

Sunday, March 21st (a few hours from now on the West Coast) marks Twitter’s 4th birthday — exactly four years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone , started a phenomenon.

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Twitter Hits 10 Billion Tweets

Joe — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:54:55 +0000

It’s official: Twitter has surpassed 10 billion tweets . While Gigatweet’s counter is down due to over-traffic., you can tell by the actual tweet ID numbers that we have crossed the magical threshold

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Facebook’s Version of the Retweet Has Arrived

Joe — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:07:53 +0000

We’ve long speculated as to when Facebook might get its own version of Twitter’s retweet , and it appears that the time is now. This evening, the site rolled out a “via” feature that lets you repost another user’s shared items, with a “via” link attached for attribution. It appears the feature is live for everyone

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Nirvana + Lady GaGa = Epic Mashup [VIDEO]

Joe — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:29:47 +0000

The bizarre pop princess recently got a coolness upgrade when “Poker Face” met Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in one of the best mashups of the recently deceased year. Yes, Lady GaGa has been a little… shall we say, overplayed this year (being Last.fm’s official Fame Monster as well as one of Twitter’s most influential topics of 2009 )