Twitter launches new login API
In a bid to attract new users and stem stunted growth, Twitter has created a new ‘Sign-Up’ API (application programming interface) which will make it possible for anyone to create …
Facebook and other social networking sites to be fitted with panic button
Panic buttons are to be installed on Facebook and other social networking sites to enable children to alert website operators when inappropriate material is posted on the sites. Am still …
Twitter turns red for World Aids Day
The makeover is designed to mark World Aids Day, which aims to raise awareness and funds for HIV/Aids projects across the world. Twitter’s new red livery also contains a link …
Space firm to send Christmas Day tweets to dead people
Bereaved Brits desperate to send a message to their departed loved ones this Christmas could instead simply alert hostile aliens to our tenuous Earthly existence. The Bereavement Register – a …
Twitter launching paid business accounts
Personal and corporate accounts will remain free, but businesses will have the option of signing up to a paid account, which will offer a “special layer of access”, including feedback …
Stephen Fry says Twitter lets celebrities bypass media
Speaking today at the event held in London, Mr Fry, who passed the million followers mark at the weekend, complimented the site for changing celebrities’ relationships and reliance upon the …
Facebook users spend three solid days a year on the site
The average person who used Facebook in each of the last 12 months has spent 70 hours 26 minutes on the site during that period, according to a spokesman from …
Twitter offered $500,000 to run advert
Microblogging site Twitter has been offered half a million dollars to feature a single banner advert on its pages for just one day.