Mike Isaac in Social on May 14 at 2:53 pm PT
For those not used to real-time Twitter news, there’s a compact version available.
Ina Fried in News on April 5 at 3:59 pm PT
The microblogging service has filed suit against five entities that are either mass spammers or providing the tools for such unwanted messages.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 6, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT
Actor Alec Baldwin loves Zynga’s hit game Words With Friends, but right now he’s not too crazy about American Airlines, which he says booted him off a flight for playing while sitting at the gate.
Liz Gannes in Social on August 10, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT
Twitter today started rolling out features to help shed light on the way tweeted content is received by other users. Two new tabs on Twitter’s Web site show users when their own tweets or tweets from the people they follow are favorited or retweeted.
Voices
Jared Diamond, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on June 17, 2011 at 1:55 pm PT
Despite all the tired wisecracks about the triviality of Twitter’s content and the supposed narcissism of its users, it’s clear that the popular microblogging site has established itself as a playground for celebrities.
Drake Martinet in D9 on June 7, 2011 at 5:25 pm PT
We’ve compiled the story of our recent
D9 conference, 140 characters at a time. It’s full of pictures (the behind the scenes kind) and links to videos. And even the inimitable @MarthaStewart makes an appearance or two.
John Paczkowski in News on June 7, 2011 at 12:04 am PT
There were lots of numbers showcased in Apple’s WWDC keynote Monday morning–big, big numbers.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 14, 2011 at 1:26 pm PT
Twitter has put up some impressive numbers in its five years, but it still doesn’t disclose a standard stat for any Web service: How many users it has.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on March 8, 2011 at 9:05 pm PT
A new iPad app called Zite makes the news-gathering process a lot easier. The app crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to users, according to their social network and online reading behavior.