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Twitter Offers Metered Pricing for Firehose of Tweets

in Social on February 2, 2011 at 5:43 pm PT

Gnip, Twitter’s only official data reseller, will give customers access to a keyword-filtered set of all tweets at a cost of 10 cents per thousand tweets.

Backstage at the Onion's New TV Show

in Media on January 21, 2011 at 8:05 am PT

The Onion lands its second TV show in a month–this one is the pitch-perfect “Onion News Network” on IFC–and we sit down with head writer Carol Kolb.

How Much Copyright Infringement Can You Cram Into a Single Tweet?

in Social on December 30, 2010 at 11:09 am PT

If you run a user-generated content site, takedown notices from copyright holders are a fact of life. That even goes for Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters of text. The site received on the order of 300 takedown notices in the last month.

Zynga Chooses Facebook, Yet Again, for Exclusive Launch of Next Game: CityVille

in Social on November 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

Zynga may make “social games,” but they do not foster much in the way of complex or rewarding social interaction. The company is trying to change that, and today is announcing its next game, CityVille, which it calls its most social to date. CityVille (of course) is a cutesy simulation game in which users work to turn a small town into a big city.

Birds of a Feather Twitter Together

in The Digital Solution on December 2, 2008 at 5:20 pm PT

If you’ve heard of Twitter but don’t exactly know what it is or how it works, you’re in good company. In the past two months a bunch of my friends, ranging in age from early 20s to late 30s, have asked me about Twitter–or Tweeter, as one person accidentally called it. To clear things up, I’ve put together a basic Twitter guide that explains how to use it, Twitter lingo, privacy options, mobile applications that can be used with the service and problems that it has.