Cher is bummed Burlesque was snubbed by the Academy. Singer-songwriter Diane Warren picked up the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for Burlesque’s “You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me†earlier this month, but the track was snubbed for a Best Song nomination when the 2011 Academy Award nominations were announced this week. The diss [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tweets’
Kim Kardashian Tweets Childhood Photo Of Beau Kris Humphries
January 24th, 2011 |
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It looks like Kim Kardashian has babies on the brain. The reality TV star, 30, is one of the few Hollywood starlets not sporting this season’s new must-have accessory — a swollen belly — but big moves could be just around the corner for Kardashian after she Tweeted a cute childhood pic of her new [...]
Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets
January 4th, 2011 |
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‘Ye’s Greatest TwitHits have gotten a lyrical waxing from music man Josh Groban. Groban promoted his new “album” on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night, but unlike his other more conservative albums, Josh has a little fun with this one – singing Kanye West’s outlandish Tweets! “It was an honor to sing these. I sincerely [...]
Hulk Hogan Tweets Surgical Scars
December 29th, 2010 |
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Since Hulk Hogan was forced to spend the holiday weekend gumming slimey green Jello as he recovered from back surgery in a Florida hospital, it’s only fair that the wrestling icon subject us to a little Yuletide misery by Tweeting the gory snaps of his surgical scars. Thanks Bro. Hogan, who chronicled his battle against [...]
Twitter Promoted Tweets on Google a Prelude to Acquisition
December 21st, 2010 |
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Google and Twitter have a cozy search and ad relationship with Google indexing tweets and Promoted Tweets in real-time.
What if the working partnership got cozier? – Google’s inclusion of Twitter’s Promoted Tweets into its
real-time search results represents more than just the first time Google is
including ads not fueled by AdWords on its properties.
It sets up the possibility that Google could acquire
Twitter at a later date, according to Paul Byrne, a sen…
Top Twitter Trends & Tweets Of 2010
December 14th, 2010 |
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Twitter released its top trends of 2010, which include the World Cup and the BP oil spill. CNET.com’s Natali Morris reports. Twitter breaks down its list by news event, people, movies, television, technology, world cup, sports, and hashtags. Justin Bieber is the only living human on Twitter’s list of top trends of 2010. The crooning [...]
Warne tweets his disgust over Oz selectors’ decision to drop Hauritz
November 20th, 2010 |
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Spin legend Shane Warne has criticized the Australian selectors for dropping Nathan Hauritz from the 13-man Ashes squad for the Gabba Test. Hauritz was left out of the Australian team with Tasmania’s Xavier Doherty and leg-spinning all-rounder Steve Smith named in the squad instead. Warne used his favourite medium, Twitter, to question the decision to [...]
Eva Longoria Tweets “Great Sadness†Over Divorce
November 17th, 2010 |
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Desperate Housewives’ Eva Longoria is sounding off on her shocking split from French-born NBA star Tony Parker the way every jilted woman does in the Internet age: Twitter! After three years of marriage, Longoria has filed for divorce from Parker after learning that the professional athlete is a serial cheater. “It is with great sadness [...]
Google Supports Twitter Promoted Tweets in Realtime Search
November 4th, 2010 |
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Google has started surfacing Twitter’s Promoted Tweets ads in its Realtime Search page, part of the search engine’s deal with the microblog. – Google is now running Twitter’s Promoted Tweets ads in its Realtime Search
page, a coup for the microblog trying to extend its money-making opportunities
outside of Twitter.
Promoted Tweets marks Twitter’s first foray into online advertising, letting advertisers such as Starbucks pay $100,000
to…
Twitter Tests Promoted Tweets in the Timeline
November 2nd, 2010 |
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Twitter is experimenting with offering Promoted Tweets to its timelines, bringing paid ads to the Website’s 175 million users. It’s about making more money without annoying users. – Twitter Nov. 1 extended its Promoted Tweets effort to its timelines,
exposing paid ads to more of the microblog’s roughly 175 million users.
Promoted Tweets let advertisers such as Starbucks pay $100,000 to push
their products in searches and trending topics. The ads started in searches on
Twitt…
Twitter Users Hit by Another Worm
September 27th, 2010 |
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Twitter users Sunday were infected by a worm that posted sexual messages on victims’ profiles. – Twitter users were hit with yet another worm during the weekend.
This time, the tweets came bearing the message quot;WTF quot; with a link in
tow. Clicking on the link automatically generated a post from the
victim with a pornographic message.
“Clicking on the WTF link would take you to a webpa…
Kanye West he was wrongly branded as ‘racist’
September 6th, 2010 |
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In a bid to clear his image, Kanye West has taken to Twitter to claim that he was wrongly branded as ‘racist’. The rapper had a meltdown on Twitter and he posted a series of 70 Tweets. “They wanted yall to believe I was a monster,†the Daily Star quoted him as saying. “Some people’s [...]
Twitter for iPad App Enables Tweets by Touch
September 3rd, 2010 |
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Twitter Sept. 1 launched its official Twitter for iPad application, allowing users to tweet all sorts of content through a touch-screen. The app is available free from Apple’s App Store. – On Sept
. 1, Twitter launched its official
Twitter for iPad application, bringing tweeting and other content sharing to
Apple’s popular tablet computer.
Many of Twitter’s 100
million-plus users are calling out Web pages, photos, videos, hashtags, people,
check-ins and other objects with their…
Twitter Warms to SMS Tweets with Fast Follow
August 11th, 2010 |
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Twitter on Aug. 10 added a Fast Follow feature that will let anyone in the United States get tweets on their phone. Twitter wants to eliminate the barriers to entry to better compete with Facebook. – Twitter, whose tweeting roots lie in SMS messaging from
mobile phones, August 10 said it added a Fast Follow feature that will let anyone in the United States get tweets on
their phone, even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter.
Previously, mobile phone users had to be Twitter members to see
…
Zendesk Leveraging Twitter for Help Desk Tweets
July 13th, 2010 |
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Many businesses use Twitter to see what their customers are saying about them. Zendesk struck a deal with Twitter to let companies monitor tweets to connect with customers over help desk issues. – Help desk software maker Zendesk July 13 struck a deal
with Twitter to let companies monitor tweets to connect with customers over customer service questions and concerns.
Many businesses use Twitter, which has more than 100
million users, to see what their customers are saying about them.
Empl…
Twitter Promoted Tweets Surface for Disney/Pixar’s ‘Toy Story 3′
June 18th, 2010 |
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Twitter’s promoted trending topics has been kicked off by Disney/Pixar’s ad for the company’s forthcoming "Toy Story 3" film. "Toy Story 3" appears as the last Trending Topic in the lower right-hand rail of Twitter.com, marked by a yellow box that simply says "Promoted." Social media experts are eagerly watching Promoted Tweets, gauging its effectiveness with the obsession normally reserved for the way they scrutinize social ads on Facebook. The belief is that, like most Web companies, Twitter’s long-term viability hinges on its ability to make money from digital advertising. – Twitter’s promoted trending topics, an experiment in the Promoted Tweets ad system designed to reap the microblog service
revenues, has been kicked off by Disney/Pixar’s ad for the company’s
forthcoming quot;Toy Story 3 quot; film.
quot;Toy Story 3 quot; appears as the last Trending Topic in th…
Twitter Places Launches with Support for Foursquare, Gowalla Check-ins
June 15th, 2010 |
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Twitter June 14 launched its Places feature to let users tag tweets with specific places they’re posting from. Twitter users can click the "Tweets about a place" tab in a Twitter Place within a tweet to see recent tweets from a location.
The microblog service also integrated Places with Foursquare and Gowalla. Users of those location-based Web services who publish check-ins to Twitter will see Twitter Places associated with tweets generated by these services. –
Twitter June 14 launched its Places geolocation
feature for its desktop and mobile Website to let users tag tweets with specific places
they’re posting from.
The idea is to boost the context and relevance of the
microblog service beyond the construct of typing 140 characters in a box. …
Microsoft Uses Twitter, Facebook Firehose Feeds for Bing Social
June 10th, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s Bing team took another stab at making the search engine more social June 9, rolling up Twitter tweets and status updates and shared links from Facebook fan pages. Bing Social can only surface popular shared links from Facebook users in the aggregate form, and only those links from users who have set their status updates to be shared with "everyone." The work shows Bing is working hard to be a relevant player in the real-time and social search categories, which are clearly blurry thanks to the real-time nature of Twitter and the social aspects of Facebook. – Microsoft’s Bing team moves to make its search engine more social by
rolling up Twitter tweets and status updates and shared links from
Facebook fan pages into a new Website called Bing Social.
Bing began
indexing tweets sparingly last July, but kicked it up with the launch of its Bing
Twitter …
LinkedIn Tweets App Lets Users Find, Follow Contacts on Twitter
May 26th, 2010 |
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LinkedIn adds a feature to its Tweets application that lets users track their LinkedIn connections on both LinkedIn and Twitter. Tweets users may click to see all of their LinkedIn connections who have added Twitter accounts to their LinkedIn profiles. The Tweets app is important because it opens up the potential for LinkedIn to reach some of Twitter’s user base of 100 million people. Moreover, Twitter feed integrations also exist between Twitter and Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft and Twitter and Google. – LinkedIn May 26 added a feature to its Tweets application that lets users
track their LinkedIn connections on Twitter as well.
LinkedIn began letting users tweet to Twitter from LinkedIn and vice versa in November 2009 through
Tweets, which has been picked up by more than 1 million users.
The ne…
Twitter Shuts Out Third-Party Ads to Protect Promoted Tweets
May 25th, 2010 |
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Twitter May 24 said it won’t let third parties inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API. The microblog’s revised developer terms of service also say third parties must pay Twitter when its content is leveraged in an ad sale. The idea is to protect the Twitter platform and, specifically, Twitter’s nascent Promoted Tweets ad business. The move comes after Twitter alienated some developers with its Twitter for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps. – Twitter May 24 sent out another warning to developers by vowing not to allow
any third- party company or individual to inject paid tweets into a timeline on
any service that leverages the Twitter API.
The move is outlined in these revised developer terms of
service, which also stipulate that thi…