Tag Archives: microblog
Morning Musings: Do you have the new twitter yet?
It’s a little over 3 weeks since Twitter announced the new web interface for their popular social network, and as promised many users are now beginning to experience the “new” twitter. The roll out for the new layout has been slated for release over the past few weeks, and many are still waiting. The new [...]
Morning Musings: Only half of all Tweets are in english
Semiocast, a French based consulting group, conducted a study over a two-day period (Feb. 8 thru Feb 10) examining close to 3 million tweets this February and found some interesting results. Semiocast’s study found that out of those 3 million tweets, roughly 1.5 million of them were not in English. The english language only popped [...]
BREAKING: The whole internet is broken!
The internet as we know was completely broken yesterday (Thursday August 6th, 2009), and it will never be the same again. Popular web services, Twitter, Facebook, and Livejournal, were all targets of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) that brought all of the services to their knees. The loss of service to these websites [...]