Darius Rucker has become a big star in country music, a fact that hasn’t sat well with one racist fan. Rucker was forced to take to Twitter on Sunday after a racist Twitter user attacked him over his rendition of the Bob Dylan hit Wagon Wheel. During his membership performance at the Grand Ole Opry in…
Kim Dotcom Might Sue Facebook, Twitter, And Google Over Copyright Violation
Megaupload and Mega founder Kim Dotcom is wanted in the US for copyright infringement and now he appears prepped to turn the tables. The file sharing mogul revealed on Thursday that he may potentially sue Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies for implementing a security standard he patented. While US authorities are currently seeking extradition…
Teens Are Flocking To Twitter, Study Claims
If you’re a teenager and you are in the market for a new social network to join there is a good chance you’ll choose Twitter. A new study by the team at the Pew Research Center suggests that teens are abandoning Facebook in favor of micro-blogging. According to the survey more than half of teens…
Twitter Two-Factor Authentication Now Available, More Solutions On The Way
Twitter on Wednesday rolled out its answer to recent hacks against high-profile account. Twitter two-factor authentication is the social networks first attempt at protecting user accounts from unscrupulous activity by outsiders. Several weeks ago the accounts of Burger King, The Associate Press, and others were hacked and racist, mean, and often confusing messages were left…
Twitter Secures ‘Pull Down To Refresh’ Patent, Promises Not To Enforce It
The ability to “pull down to refresh” a webpage is now owned by Twitter. The company on Tuesday confirmed that it has secured the rights to the technology via a brand and new and accepted patent filing. Yahoo has filed an Innovator’s Patent Agreement which means the social network would only sue other company’s who claim…
Using Twitter Will Damn Your Soul, According To Saudi Clerics
Stay off Twitter, or your soul is forfeit. While most Internet users already understand this to be true, a top Saudi cleric has gone ahead and made it honest-to-goodness religious truth. Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the senior religious authority in Saudi Arabia, warns against being pulled in by the appeal of the popular microblog.…
Social Media: The New Face Of Disaster Response [Infographic]
Is social media the new face of disaster response? As many of you reading this likely know, social media has taken on numerous new roles in recent years outside of simply providing a semi-anonymous forum for posting selfies and discreetly stalking exes. In fact, social media has become the news, the entertainment, and even the…
Twitter Acquires Lucky Sort, Continues String Of Big Data Buys
Twitter is continuing it march towards big data dominance with today’s acquisition of Lucky Sort. Lucky Sort is a natural language data-mining and visualization platform which offers various tools for analysis purposes. For example, the company powers the market intelligence visualizations for StockTwits. Based in Portland, Oregon the team at Lucky Sort will begin to…
‘Geography Of Hate’ Map Uses Twitter To Show Where The Haters Be
Seems like we’ve been here before: “Where do all the haters live?” A new “geography of hate” map published by Floating Sheep shows us once again that Twitter can be used to, well, figure out where all the haters live. Floating Sheep geo-tagged tweets sent out across the country in order to create the “geography of…
Twitter Acquires Scalable Computing Technology Firm ‘Ubalo’
Twitter on Thursday acquired scalable computing technology firm Ubalo. News of the acquisition was announced by Ubalo CEO Jacob Mattingly and CTO Ian Downes via the company’s official blog. Ubalo is a project that launched just two years ago and the company currently employs just four people. Ubalo launched with funding help from Harrison Metal Capital. The…
Unruly Unveils Top Vine Metrics, Reveals 100 Most Tweeted Vines
Can you believe that the Twitter owned Vine app is already 100 days old? In celebration of the minor milestone the team at Unruly Media have put together a list of the top ten shared vines and information about the 100 most tweeted Vines. With branded Vines 4 times more likely to be shared than…
Dos Equis: Twitter’s Favorite Beer On Cinco De Mayo [Video]
Twitter users don’t normally drink beer, but when they do … they prefer Dos Equis. The popular Mexican lager was Twitter’s go-to beer on Cinco de Mayo, according to analysis performed by social media management firm Expion. They looked at all beer brand mentions for ten labels between April 24 and May 6 to see…
Twitter’s Legal Director Hired By Obama Administration As Nation’s First Chief Privacy Officer
Twitter legal director Nicole Wong has been battling internet litigation issues for years and now she’s working for the Obama Administration. Wang on Tuesday was chosen to be the country’s first Chief Privacy Officer. Nicole Wang joined Twitter five moths ago to head up the social networks legal team. Twitter has long fought to protect…
E! News Twitter Account Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army
The E! News Twitter account was hacked on Saturday by a group known as the Syrian Electronic Army. After gaining access to the account the Syrian Electronic Army posted a message in which it claimed Justin Bieber had come out of the closet. Several hundred Twitter users retweeted the Justin Bieber tweet before it was revealed to…