Report: 39% of photos on Twitter posted from iOS devices
According to the photo search engine Skylines, iOS devices account for 39% of all photos posted on Twitter. Of the 24 million photos posted to Twitter in the week of October 22nd to October 29th, Twitter for iPhone came in highest with 21%, Instag...
Who gets custody of Twitter when an employee quits?
Another day, another post-employment dispute over a social media account.
In this case, Noah Kravitz worked for PhoneDog, which is an "interactive mobile news and reviews web resource." Kravitz worked as a reviewer and...
Judge rules Feds can have WikiLeaks associates’ Twitter data
The Justice Department is entitled to records of the Twitter accounts used by three current and former WikiLeaks associates, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dealing a victory to prosecutors in a routine records demand...
40% Of All Photos On Twitter Come From iOS
Wow. Between Twitter for iPhone, the iOS 5 camera app and Instagram, a huge 40% of all pictures shared on Twitter actually originate from iOS. In fact, it could be more, since other Twitter clients are not broken down by platform. No wonder...
Isaacson on Jobs’ final words: “Steve left us with a mystery” (and other great quotes)
Steve Jobs’s authorized biographer Walter Isaacson and Fortune’s managing editor Andy Serwer on stage at NASDAQ | Photo: Tanner Curtis In a series of tweets, Fortune released some interesting new quotes by Steve Jobs’ authorized biographer Walter Isaacson, who sat down for a “breakfast conversation” with the magazine’s managing editor Andy Serwer. “It’s good that we’ve made a...
Firefox 8 Officially Released
In late September Mozilla released version 7 of its Firefox browser, and as part of the company’s new fast release cycle we noted a few days after the release that a beta of Firefox 8 had already been seeded to developers. In the article, we noted Mozilla promised Firefox 8 would deliver better tab management,...
Cult of Mac is Now On Google+, Come Join Us!
Earlier today Google announced the addition of Google+ Pages, which allows businesses to create pages and interact with fans, just like on those other social networks. We’re really excited about Google+ (Hangouts are pretty freaking awesome), so we’re not wasting time to get started. We created...Loren Brichter leaves Twitter
In 2007, Loren Brichter built Tweetie, a lovely (and award-winning) Twitter client for both the Mac and iOS. So lovely in fact that in April of last year, Twitter bought his company, Atebits and turned Tweetie into the official native Twitter clients for Mac and iOS. Today via, yes…wait for it…Twitter, Brichter announced he was...
Does the Siri outage reveal its success?
Siri went down on Thursday for its first extended outage -- around five hours, according to most counts. Five hours is hardly three days (like another noteworthy recent mobile service blackout), but the reaction of media and users show Apple's personal assistant is making its presence felt.
Quick tip: Update Twitter and Facebook using Siri
Normally, if you ask Siri to tweet for you, it'll say it can't help with Twitter. If you ask about Facebook, you'll get even less of a response. However, using both these social networks' SMS features, you can get Siri to update Twitter and Facebook indirectly.
