Twitter has released figures saying that mobile use has leapt 62% since mid-April as a range of new official apps for the iPhone, Blackberry and Android come online. Read More »

Twitter is returning to its roots with the acquisition of text-messaging company Cloudhopper, which will allow more users, especially those in developing countries without web-enabled smartphones, to begin tweeting. Read More »

You’ve no doubt heard it before that location is the next big thing. It’s about to get much bigger. With Facebook about to announce new location-based features at their developer conference late this month, location is about to take a giant leap forward.

Combine that with talk of a Foursquare sale, and the growing list of companies (FT and Starbucks being only the most well-known)  starting to use Foursquare check-ins as a whole new form of promotional CRM, and this space is rapidly becoming a hot-bed of focus and innovation. Read More »

Nearly half of web users in the US (47%) check Facebook everyday, rivalling the number of web users who watch television daily (55%), while Twitter, with its explosive growth over the past two years, still remains a niche activity for the online population, with just 6% logging in daily.

Research from Nielsen Online, which estimates the number of social media users in the US at 127m, shows Facebook’s reach trumps those of other traditional media channels, including radio (37% listen daily) and newspapers (22%). Read More »

Third party developers got a chance fire questions at Twitter brass yesterday during the @Chirp conference, a week after the website ruffled some feathers when it announced it would be side-stepping many independent developers to launch some of its own apps.

Twitter has long thrived on third party developers, who created immensely popular desktop and mobile clients like TweetDeck and UberTwitter, among others.

Developers were confused over Twitter’s announcement last week Read More »

Lots of coverage and numbers coming out of Twitter’s first development conference Chrip, the big one being that Twitter has 105 million registered users, but no word on how many of those are active.

Biz Stone told the audience that Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users – but what we really want to know is how many of these active tweet and tweet more than you know three or four times if at all?

The 105 million figure is a lot more than the best guesstimates that were floating around the web that put the figure at 60 million. Read More »

Twitter has plans to change the way its timeline works, from chronological order to a feed that will instead display the most relevant and popular tweets, while hiding those that are redundant (which can make up 20% of any given Twitter stream).

The New York Times said that Twitter is trying to figure out how to present the most relevant—instead of just the most recent—information. Read More »