There’s a fine line between following someone’s life on Facebook and stalking them. And there is an equally fine line between capturing your thoughts in 140 characters and not being able to pin down your attention span. Where is that line, exactly?
The Social Media Venn Diagram, jokingly developed and plastered onto a tshirt I [...]
You need to check out @shitmydadsays on Twitter. It’s a guy’s Twitter feed for, well, I’ll let him do the talking:
“I’m 28. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he says.”
And you know what? His dad is HILARIOUS. Check out some of the recent tweets:
“Who is this [...]
Did an airline do something to piss you off? Bump you off an overbooked flight? Leave you stranded at an airport because you were so delayed the connecting flight wouldn’t wait? Break your clearly marked FRAGILE THIS SIDE UP luggage?
Before the rise of Twitter, the best customers could do was make angry phone calls, send [...]
Looking for something soft and chewy to stick on your Facebook Wall? How about some Fresh Fruit Facebook Gum? This pack of gum carries the caption “Virtual Friends Forever” and “We Met on Facebook.” Facebook Gum retails for $1.50. So what comes next? Twitter mints?
[via Chip Chick]
Ology network partner ZiggyTek tells the story of an alarming trend, and one that I’m occasionally guilty of myself. After six to eight hours of network deprivation — also known as sleep — people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending [...]
Twitter has been on the fritz for the past week, following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last Thursday that brought the site down for most of the day. Recently it has become apparent that it was the work of Russian KGB operatives targeting a Georgian blogger who has become fiercely critical of the [...]
Given Twitter’s recent role in world events, it’s clear that the microblogging service has a lot of impact on the way things happen in the world. But who knew a single, seemingly harmless tweet could potentially cost more than $50,000? Ology partner Curious? Read tells the story of Amanda Bonnen, the woman who is facing [...]
Having trouble stuffing all that social media into your diet? The Social Networking Watch helps keep you on track and gives you a set schedule so you can be connected 24/7. My only objection? There should be espresso shots every other hour so you can sustain your connectivity. Or maybe a small electric shock to [...]
In the past 10 days, [something extraordinary has] happened: the first was at investment bank Morgan Stanley, where a 15-year-old intern’s report on “How Teenagers Consume Media” was published with the same fanfare as an analyst’s version might have been. This report was radical not because it asked an actual teenager what teenagers are like – [...]
A new start-up called Aardvark wants to turn the micro-publishing ecosystem Twitter into a personalized question-and-answer service that intelligently finds the right person to answer your question.
To try out getting free answers to your questions, you first need to register at vark.com, then send a question via Twitter to @vark. The service, started by an ex-Googler, [...]
