Category Archives: Twitter

Thirty-nine percent of companies block Facebook at work? Yeah right

A new study from Webroot dumped a lot of stats in my lap. Most of which are companies portraying some feigned sense of security by attempting to block outside social networks. My guess is the companies in the survey missed the point but creates the fear.

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Will third party Twitter clients remove Sponsored Tweets?

With Twitter launching sponsored tweets into the stream, will the developers of clients write code to remove these from paid versions of the apps to make themselves money?

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How In Two Moves Twitter Kills an Ecosystem

Twitter has made some major changes that have taken a huge bite out of the third party developer ecosystem for tools, add-ons and clients. Twitter started (rightfully) buying/building their own official Twitter clients for multiple platforms.  This was needed as no one knew quite where to turn outside of the web interface (that had clients…

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I can’t fit anymore badges, now Twitter badges arrive

Foursquare, Gowalla, the Boy Scouts of America, and now Twitter has badges (through Twadges). Can this get any more ridiculous?

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