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Arabic lists eighth on Twitter language support

slikers — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:17:45 +0000

Twitter seems to found new users who mostly come from the Middle East countries. This is demonstrated through a "tweet" or message that is inputted into the Twitter in Arabic, amounting to 99 thousand tweets per day in October 2011.

Ministry of Defense Alerts People for Social Media Misuse

slikers — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:08:07 +0000

The US Ministry of Defense has recently raised its campaign against Social Media Misuse. This campaign aims to remind the social media users to be wary of what they share or tweet on various social networks. This is due to the fact that the MoD has been alarmed by the rampant increase of social activism in various online networks and that ‘some’ users, especially those whose relatives belong to the Military Troops, could jeopardize the confidentiality and success of their missions.

Acer Liquid Metal Announced, Hitting UK Next Month

slikers — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:20:26 +0000

Acer is one of the leading tech companies in the world, and a few years ago, they entered the mobile phone market. Acer also has launched some good Android powered phones, and they are keep extending their Android.

Lady Gaga becomes most viewed on Youtube

slikers — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:34:32 +0000

According to internet research company famecount.com, Poker-Face singer Lady Gaga has officially become the first person to rack up more than 1 billion channel views on YouTube ( with 1,002,734,757 views on YouTube). The number includes all her uploaded material and not a single video

Twitter Client Apps for Ubuntu Linux

slikers — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:20:25 +0000

Twitter as Microblogging network lately that more and more popular, as well as Facebook. Call it Bill Gates who also ended up using Twitter. Developed technology now allows us more access to social networks, such as through mobile devices and smartphones, other than through a PC with a variety of browsers, or even if you have web hosting you can create applications with PHP Twitter. Besides, there are also some client applications are interesting enough to access this Twitter easily, but here I specifically limiting the Linux operating system Ubuntu in particular.

HootSuite beta version for Blackberry

slikers — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:20:28 +0000

If the previous application HootSuite still be tested on the beta version, now that has been widely used applications for Android phones and the iPhone has been available on BlackBerry phones. BlackBerry users can now feel the service HootSuite public Beta and can be downloaded for free.

Twifficiency, Calculate your Activity on Twitter

slikers — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:20:42 +0000

Want to know how active you are on the microblogging site Twitter? To find out, just click twifficiency.com. Site made by James Cunningham serves to calculate what percentage of activity in the social networking. The calculation is based on how many people you follow, how many people are following you, how often you tweets, and how many tweets are public.

Experiments Google News Integration with Twitter

slikers — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:20:24 +0000

Google search engine was trying out the news service, Google News to be integrated with microblogging Twitter site. on the Google News home page there will be little change in the features of "friends". The access news from Google's site will find a button to the right of the Google News news column and from which they can connect with Twitter account.

Who viewed your Profile scam on Twitter

slikers — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:51:02 +0000

You may be a marketer, But no matter how desperately you want to know, "who has viewed your twitter profile", please don’t click on any link on twitter, which claims to tell you, "See who as viewed your twitter profile.

As taking advantage of the desire of people in general, Twitter spammers have once again rolled out, tweets like like "WOW! You can see WHO VISITS your TWITTER profile. That’s cool! :) – http://bit.ly/tweetviewer" and "I just viewed my TOP20 Profile STALKERS. I can’t believe my EX is still checking me every day"; that are spreading at a great pace about 159 tweets a minute.

US Senator wants Facebook and Twitter switch to HTTPS

slikers — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:47:07 +0000

Senator Charles Schumer materialize called major U.S. web site operators such as Amazon and Twitter to switch to a more secure protocol, the HTTPS, to prevent identity theft and other security breaches in public places like coffee shops, where wireless or WiFi networks are used.

According to the Democrat senator, the number of people using WiFi to access the Internet at public places is growing very fast in the country; increasing the threat to user’s data posed by unsecured protocols equally.