There is suddenly a lot happening at Twitter. This morning we had updates to its mobile browser and now we’re getting a major update to Twitter for Mac. If you are like me and a big user of Twitter on the Mac then this will be very welcome news indeed.
It will in future be easier to use and will for the first time allow you to open multiple Twitter windows among other improvements. The best thing though is it looks and works like an app.
The Guardian is reporting that the Taliban has started tweeting in English for the first time.
It is only to be expected. Islamic terrorists and insurgents everywhere have shown a fondness for the web, and issuing gruesome videos, although as the paper points out the group did once forbid most modern technology when it ran Afghanistan before being booted out. Now it is microblogging. Read More
Social media management tool Hootsuite has responded to concerns about the link between unrest in Libya and its link shortener Ow.ly by adding two new domain shorteners to its service.
As well as the popular Ow.ly, which uses the top level domain suffix reserved for Libya, users now have the option of shortening their links using Htl.li and Owl.li, the suffix for Lichtenstein. Read More
We’re always reading about how the big battle online is and will be between Google and Twitter. Earlier this week we had Esther Dyson predicting that in the long run Facebook will be bigger than its rival and prior to that we learnt what a threat Google sees in Facebook with its new focus on social
So it is always interesting to learn if these companies see it the same as the pundits. And with the story breaking that Facebook hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google we know they do. Read More
Google Chromebook: not a computer
An ad filmed with an all-white background, a friendly voiceover and a plinky plonky twee guitar soundtrack: but if you think Apple’s releasing something new, you’re wrong.
It’s the Google Chromebook. WHICH IS NOT A COMPUTER. It’s a bit like a computer and you could theoretically have a Google Chromebook instead of a computer, but that doesn’t make it a computer. No. It’s ‘something new’, according to this video introducing it:
Mobile is hugely important to Twitter. Use has been soaring and it has been focussing on it in recent weeks.
If you use Twitter via its mobile browser it is not the best experience. Now Twitter has done something about it. I wonder if it will do anything about Twitpic too? Read More
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