Last week, Twitter announced its first Twitter account that will promote deals from select advertisers, Earlybird. On Wednesday, the site launched its first deal. Earlybird, (@earlybird), just tweeted its first Twitter-exclusive offer today. According to the Twitter Blog: “Today, we’re excited to launch the first @earlybird Exclusive Offer, in partnership with The Walt Disney Studios,” [...]

According to a fascinating interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg this week on Inside Facebook (Discussing the Future of Facebook and the Facebook Ecosystem with CEO Mark Zuckerberg), Facebook admits that they may have focused too much on trying to emulate Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging platform, when formulating their strategies and plans for the future. In the interview, which [...]

Seriously Something is technically wrong with twitter these days.Thanks for noticing—we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon. Twitter is using invalid ssl certificate for “www.twitter.com” .  When you open https://www.twitter.com/ Firefox warns you about “Untrusted connection” You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.twitter.com, but we [...]

As anyone who has used Buzz for any length of time and had to deal with follow requests much of them are traced back to the usual suspects: spammers, SEO ninja wannabes, women who what to show you parts of their gorgeous anatomy and miscellaneous other bot type accounts. What is even worse though is the number of accounts that are nothing more than Twitter accounts being streamed in. As PostRank found [...]

Twitter is far more valuable than just a social network for a web site owner. Its a tremendous traffic generator! I’m sure we have all heard of or used Free For All (FFA) pages to try and generate traffic to websites quickly… but all we got for our trouble was a email box full of junk mail…. right? Come on admit it and we got zero to very little traffic gains for our trouble.Well [...]

We’ve long speculated as to when Facebook might get its own version of Twitter’s retweet, and it appears that the time is now. This evening, the site rolled out a “via” feature that lets you repost another user’s shared items, with a “via” link attached for attribution. It appears the feature is live for everyone. To try it, just go to a friend’s posted item in your news feed, click [...]

Here is the really Funny (professional) Email conversion between Simon Edhouse & [wikipop]David Thorne[/wikipop] From: Simon Edhouse Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm To: David Thorne Subject: Logo Design Hello David,I would like to catch up as I am working on a really exciting project at the moment and need a logo designed. Basically something representing peer to peer networking. I have [...]