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"HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY." So read Oprah Winfrey's first tweet last Friday. Given Twitter's wild success, the addition of one more devotee ordinarily would not create much of an impact -- even a celebrity like Winfrey. However, Winfrey made her Twitter ...
In a bear market, nearly everyone is willing to put up with a little bull. Twitter is certainly full of it, in the form of mundane drivel, yet everyone seems to be touting it as the river of gold. "Twitter has a lot of pros, but something this effective and free has very little cons," Lon Safko, coa...
Ohio State University doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski has conducted the kind of statistical study that guarantees headlines, 20-second mentions on network and local newscasts, and lots of comments on tech news Web sites and blogs. She knew she was writing about a media-friendly topic, but she stil...
Two recent developments have all but guaranteed Twitter's successful crossover into the mainstream: First, the popular social networking site -- and its bluebird logo -- are included in a new Sprint national television ad campaign. Secondly, the network was the target of computer worm attacks appare...
The entire world, it seems, is all aflitter about Twitter. Everywhere you turn, from Bill O'Reilly trashing the world of tweets on The View to Rick Sanchez praising it on CNN, someone's got something to say about Twitter. Is there something to this tweet-fest or are we all drowning in a sea of self-...
If you took part in Thursday's live online presidential town-hall meeting, you had the chance to submit your questions to President Obama via text or video. Then you got to vote on the popularity of the questions, effectively ranking them for the president's staff to consider. So some might think so...
Television network, meet social network. Hulu, the online video lovechild of Fox and NBC, announced Thursday the addition of Hulu Friends, which gives users the opportunity to set up profiles, share favorite episodes of hit shows like "24" or "The Office" and leave Facebook-style updates on each oth...
After sifting through a long list of stories, headlines, podcasts and, yes, tweets about Twitter over the past week -- only one week, mind you -- I have just one question on my microblog-addled mind: Would the news media shut up already about Twitter and just buy the damn thing? I first floated the ...
Social networking and blogging are now more popular online activities than using email, according to a new report by the Nielsen Co. The member community category -- which includes both social networks and blogs -- is growing as fast as the four other online sectors in the top five: search, portals,...
Facebook is revamping its Web site with several new features that give users more information about their networks in real time. The changes have been widely compared to the updates people send and get via microblogging site Twitter, which Facebook apparently now views as one of its competitors. The...
Facebook has apparently become a choice distribution channel for several malicious applications and a new variant of a pernicious piece of malware originally detected in 2008. The popular social networking site has been hit by at least three separate security issues in the last week -- two phony app...
A little more than a week after Facebook responded to a controversy surrounding its updated terms of service agreement by capitulating and reverting to the previous version, the company announced new procedures Thursday that will open governance of the service and its policy processes to input from ...
Still smarting from a long-ago Best Picture snub for "A Few Good Men," I chose not to watch the Oscars this year because -- well, I can't handle the truth. So I got my Oscar news and views from various live blogging efforts that delivered their own snarkified take on Hollywood's idea of honoring tru...
Facing an outcry from its subscribers, Facebook has backtracked and replaced its new terms of service agreement instituted Feb. 4 with the previous version. Mark Zuckerberg, the social network's chief executive officer, announced the change in a blog post on the company's site Tuesday night. "A coup...
What may have seemed to Facebook execs like a run-of-the-mill revision to the company's Terms of Service agreement grew into controversy over the weekend, and on Monday CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to scramble to reassure users that the content that they post -- photos, videos and text -- belongs to and ...
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