It’s the social media equivalent of bumping into someone as a pretext to asking them on a date. (Does anyone actually do that? In movies maybe? OK, forget it.) Yesterday Twitter sent emails to several (not all) Twitter users inviting them to try Twitter’s advertising platform which has been extended to all “small and medium […]
Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie Podcast with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. It’s our first show together since Conn joined Blacknight full time, and we talk a bit about how Technology.ie is being developed with additional content, in particular video. Michele is excited because Twitter have just announced that their advertising […]
MerrionStreet.ie, the Irish Government’s news service, has just released a slick and funky video of a day in the life of the Taoiseach. What gives it a further technology ‘edge’ is the fact that they picked 30 October, which included Enda’s visit to day one of the Web Summit, where he rang the NASDAQ opening […]
So Twitter’s first day on Wall Street has come to a close. For a company that has yet to make a profit, they couldn’t have asked for a better IPO, but starting today they will dance to a different tune of shareholder and analyst expectations. So what exactly is this value that investors scrambled to […]
Twitter stock has surged almost 75% in the opening minutes of trading on the New York Stock Exchange reaching . The Telegraph published a table showing how this affects the company’s major investors. Former CEO Evan Williams, who pivoted Odeo into Twitter after abandoning their original podcasting product, just made 1 billion dollars. Related articles […]
Twitter will be floated on the New York Stock Exchange today in an Initial Public Offering of 70 million shares priced at €26. The IPO price was announced last night, appropriately enough on the company’s own platform, with a tweet: https://twitter.com/twitter/status/398235511254298624 They overcame the 140 character restriction by tweeting an image of the announcement. Just […]
Users of Twitter on the Web and its mobile clients, discovered yesterday that previews of media shared with Twitter and Vine are showing up inline as you scroll through your stream. This only works with Twitter’s own media sharing tools, not, for example, with Instagram. Twitter hopes it will make the experience more engaging – […]
Here’s a chance to get a VIP trip to Webit Congress, being held on 6 and 7 November in Istanbul, Turkey. And it’s also a great way for the organisers to build buzz in advance of the event. So Webit are giving away one VIP package consisting of: Webit Platinum Pass, Business Class Flight and […]
One of the frustrations (and features) of the way Twitter is setup is that unless you follow someone they cannot message you privately and vice-versa. And in order for there to be two way communication you need to follow each other mutually. So if I followed a famous celebrity or brand they could message me […]
If you want to find out both what the Irish 2014 budget has in store for you and what people think of it .. then why not follow it on Twitter? Following the hashtag #budget2014 will give you insights into both what the Irish government has planned and how people are perceiving it. Some of […]
