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Article | 20/06/2009 Nielsen: Twitter grows user base almost 1,500 percent in May
Twitter grew faster than any other Web site in May, when its unique visitors rose almost 1,500 percent year-on-year to 18.2 million, according to Niel...
Article | 13/06/2009 Dell Tweets its way to $US3 million in sales
So you thought Twitter was a waste of time? Just fun and games? Stupid even? Dell doesn't think so.
Article | 2/06/2009 Xbox gains Facebook and Twitter integration
Microsoft's Xbox is about to get a lot more social. Twitter and Facebook will soon be coming to the system, Microsoft announced Monday, bringing an in...
Article | 22/05/2009 Twitter hit with phishing attacks
Twitter users who thought friends were directing them to a "funny blog" Thursday ended up experiencing something completely different: a phishing scam...
Article | 20/05/2009 Are baby boomers killing Facebook and Twitter?
The story is as old as the Web: A social network born among twenty-something college kids and young wired professionals sprouts up, apparently out of ...
Article | 21/05/2009 Beware the social media charlatans
Lately it seems I can't go anywhere without running into a gaggle of social media consultants bloviating about the wonders of social network marketing...
Article | 9/05/2009 Has Twitter replaced sex?
One of the many luminaries I follow on Twitter is PornStarTweet. (I make these sacrifices just for you, I hope you realize that.) Earlier Friday he/sh...
Article | 6/05/2009 Are your salespeople using Twitter?
Twitter certainly has received a lot of media attention recently, with the Kutcher vs. CNN battle to see who would be the first to have a million foll...
Article | 1/05/2009 The Problem with Twitter
Despite its growing popularity--thanks to celebrity exposure and the infamy it has gathered from the swine flu debacle--Twitter has exposed the cracks...
Article | 1/05/2009 Two weeks without Twitter: an experiment
I joined Twitter in September 2008 to see what all the fuss was about. This, of course, was right in the middle of the economic meltdown, and the US p...
Article | 30/04/2009 Twitter quitters just don't get it
A Nielsen report this week revealed that Twitter has an uncanny knack for hemorrhaging users. In fact, some 60 percent of new users bail on the servic...
Article | 17/04/2009 Kutcher and CNN Battle for Millionth Twitter Fan
Electronic Arts will make you a star in its upcoming video game The Sims 3 and give you a free copy of every single game EA makes in 2009 if you're As...
Article | 14/04/2009 Twitter attracting techie labs
As Network World's Alpha Doggs network research blogger, I've been searching Twitter in recent months for vendor, university and government labs and r...
Article | 18/02/2009 Tweet to compete
If you still think Facebook is for twentysomethings clinging to their college years and Twitter is for people with too much time on their hands announ...
Article | 17/02/2009 9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers' Favourite Pick-Up Lines
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is the criminal art of scamming a perso...