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When Burger King got hacked, we all laughed at the idea McDonalds might have bought it. When the Associated Press got hacked, we noticed. But it took the Onion in getting hacked for Twitter to finally do something... Twitter rolled out a two-step verification system for users to get extra protection against would-be hackers. The verification method includes a special
Promoted Tweets are Twitter's way of raising revenue. I cannot really fault them for creating a way to make money on a service that everyone can use for free. However, it seems like I'm getting more Promoted Tweets that do not match my interests than ones that do. One very clear example of Promoted Tweets gone wrong involves a religious
Twitter Music released today to the general public. I have been playing around with it for the last couple of hours. When you go the website the first thing you will see are the most popular tracks . You can choose from Popular, Emerging, Suggested, Now Playing and Me. How they are curating some of these categories such as Suggested
We have been hearing about a Twitter Music service for the past week, but it has been all rumors so far....until today. Music.twitter.com officially launched this morning. It uses all of the activity on Twitter (such as tweets and general engagement) to identify the most popular tracks and emerging artists and allows you to listen to previews from Apple iTunes. However,
April 1st has been described as the absolute worst day to go on the internet. Pranks abound, and, if they are good enough, you just might find yourself believing them. Personally, I find the plethora of April Fool's Day jokes to be very amusing. Here's a quick review of a couple (just in case you missed them). Twitter posted a
We live in a world where the Pope can Tweet. Pope Benedict XVI was on Twitter. His handle was @Pontifex which sent out Tweets in English. There was also @Pontifex_ es (which was in Spanish and was the one I was following). All told, there were 8 different language versions of @Pontifex on Twitter. Pope Benedict XVI was the first
Poetry is an art form that has been around for centuries. As such, it doesn't easily fit into some forms of social media. This is something I can speak first hand about. My Twitter name is @queenofhaiku, which I selected because I enjoy writing these simple looking (but deceptively complex) three lined poems. Up until recently, I had to resort