Twitter has finally and officially announced the intention to integrate the retweeting functionality into its microblogging platform, by launching the Retweet API. Currently, of course, people have to manually retweet or switch to a third party client, which makes the process easier. This new announcement however, promises to give a much needed facelift to...
Facebook is clearly looking to expand the boundaries of their services. Just a few days ago they acquired Friendfeed, and now it has been reported that they have begun testing a new service of theirs- Facebook Lite. As the name suggests, it is a stripped down version of full Facebook- a faster, simpler version....
Facebook have shocked the world by acquiring feed aggregators Friendfeed and also hiring the social networking sites four founders to important positions inside the newly purchased company. The four founders of Friendfeed were ex-google staff Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh, Jim Norris and Bret Taylor. Most notably, Buchheit was the mastermind behind creating gmail, launching...
Apple are reportedly in talks with Twitter for a potential sale the social networking site for $700 million. Valleywag, the digital media blog, claims to have contact with an inside source at Apple, who is reporting that a deal is close, and that the acquisition could be completed by 8th June. Apple is going...
According to analysts, research has suggested that more than 60% of Twitter users stop using the social network within 30 days, most of whom use it for commercial gain. As you can see from the above graph, at this moment in time Twitter has a retention rate of 40% demonstrating that over 60% quit...
In late February when Facebook declared that it was going to produce its own site governance to user poll, Facebook CEO said this action was a unprecedented effort to enable participation on the web. Now, can you stand here and say you believe that? I thought you might not. To support this theory, huge...
The Massive Social-Networking has impacted the student world, for the worse I know I do it but well something needs to be done. Every student who has a facebook, is always whilst doing homework, it is the worst distraction there is. There are so many options when you are on Facebook that you can’t...
ComScore Incorporated, the marketing research company, announced today Twitter’s statistics for March. Comscore estimates an 131% increase in unique visits to a staggering 9.3 million visits, making the comparison between February stats and March Stats. Don’t forget this is just the stats for U.S visitors think about what the Twitter worldwide statistics could be....
Futuristic Design attracts much attention FriendFeed offers a different kind of service to its customers. As well as posting updates like Twitter and Facebook allow you to do, it also is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from other micro-blogging services. People do not really pay much attention to FriendFeed until now even though it...