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Twiznight is Trending!

“You’re Blacknight? You host my site!” “Cool! Tell me about your site!” Rory McEvoy was chatting on twitter one night when he decided to test his followers’ general knowledge.  The response surprised him, and gave him an idea. Now Rory runs Twiznight every Monday at 9:30pm.  Each quiz is sponsored and all the tweets feature […]

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Twitter Is Filing For An IPO

Twitter is filing for an IPO https://twitter.com/twitter/status/378261932148416512 You can expect the tech’ news sites to explode with this one over the next few hours! You can also expect to see lots of people drawing parallels between Facebook’s IPO and Twitter’s. Expect to see plenty of analysis over the next few days. Expect to see predictions […]

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Jimmy Kimmel Trolls The Internet

American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has revealed that he was behind a YouTube video that went viral and that the entire thing was a setup. The “twerking” video, which has been viewed over 9 million times, was released on YouTube without any press releases or any other type of promotion. Here’s the original video: […]

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Photobomb With Grumpy Cat

Grumpy Cat is an internet sensation and now you can bring her to your mobile device with GrumpyBomb. The app, which is 100% free, lets you easily add Grumpy Cat to your existing iPhone photos, or take a new one and add her and an appropriate caption.   The icons are cartoonish and playful and […]

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Exploring Twitter’s Native Analytics

When Twitter started “wrapping” all hyperlinks using the t.co URL shortener they emphasised that the service would help the platform’s security. But, as they admitted, it was also going to give them access to metrics on how users’ interact with tweets. You can now access a lot of this data for your account via Twitter […]

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Facebook updates in real life

I think it’s safe to say if you use Facebook you’ll have seen big changes hit your account every few months and at times you’re left wondering why you bother to continue ( probably cus all your friends are using it ) This video sums up pretty nicely how it is in real life 🙂 […]

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Facebook finally gets #hashtags

Well Facebook was a bit of a flutter yesterday,  at least in my stream, with people wondering why there were so many hash tags around. I assumed people were cross-posting from twitter to facebook, but no it’s not that. Facebook have gone the way of Twitter and Instagram and quite possibly numerous other services and […]

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