Twitter just hit a new record for tweets per second revealed by the company yesterday. The 143,199 tweets-per-second record was set thanks to the airing of a particularly famous anime film. Castle In The Sky Breaks Twitter Record Hayoa Miyazaki is known for creating some of the highest grossing Japanese animated films…
A 21 year old man has been arrested for issuing tweets on Twitter threatening to rape Caroline Criado-Perez, the woman who campaigned for a female face on British banknotes until recently. It all started when the Bank of England decided to replace Elizabeth Fry’s face with Winston Churchill’s on the £5 note. Apart from the…
The Cookoo Watch – A Smart Way to Stay Connected The return of the wristwatch is at hand! At least, that’s what Cookoo wants us to believe with its new gadget designed for Bluetooth Smart Ready-enabled devices. And after playing with their “Connected Watch” for the last few days, I’m inclined to agree! A New…
Log on to check my Facebook Feed and this is what I see: Day 1: #thisiscool Day 2: #hashtagsarehere Day 3: #exam #finals #week #college #spanish #nervous #stressed #be #nice #wish #me #luck #help Ok, this is going to get annoying… #Facebook #Hashtag #FTW? Twitter’s main tool – the Hashtag (#word) – has officially…
Hacker group rivalries are intensifying. YourAnonNews (YAN), a Twitter account and a Tumblr blog that supports hacker group Anonymous, known for their infamous high profile hacks, itself appeared to be hacked by another hacker group known as the Rustle League. YourAnonNews is a group account, which means members of a group can simultaneously tweet to…
After a round of rumors, Twitter’s new Music service is finally here. Although, it’s not available for everyone just yet, so you will need to be patient. The new Music app will be available for you soon. It will definitely be interesting to watch if the new app lives up to the hype or not….
Twitter has updated its Android app to add support for its new Cards feature and has also made the app native for Android 4.0 or above. The latest update for the app brings a completely revamped design that’s on par with Google’s ‘holo’ design. The new design gives the app a fresh new look, unlike…
While North Korea was busy positioning its nuclear weapons at the USA, its Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked by hacker group Anonymous on the 3rd April. Thousands of user data has been claimed to be compromised. Uriminzokkiri (Korean for “Our Nation”), North Korean’s government news agency had its website Uriminzokkiri.com down, possibly by DDOS…
The hashtag has been helping Tweeters organize their lives for many years now and is a major part of Twitter. But there will soon be a Facebook hashtag as well! It has been integrated into a number of other social media outlets including Instagram, but it will soon be jumping aboard Facebook! Reportedly, Zuckerberg wants to use…
Twitter recently introduced Vine, a social video sharing app that took the market by a storm. Well, now it looks like Twitter has set its eyes on the music streaming market for its next venture. Google has also been reportedly working on a music service, so the new Twitter music will have quite few hurdles…
Clearly, popes and Twitter don’t go well together: Several months after joining Twitter, Pope Benedict XVI decided to resign. Is this purely coincidental? Also, take a look at Pope Francis’ fake Twitter account! The online and offline worlds both have been in quite a rumble since the new pope, Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), has been…
Check it out: Astronaut Ron Garan explains how he tweets from space. Also, some breath-taking space shots will be featured in this round-up. Ron Garan, a member of Expedition 27, is popularly known in Twitter as @Astro_Ron. You got that right – aside from carrying out his daily NASA missions, Ron Garan still finds time…
Instagram was once the first and only app that came to mind when you thought about photo editing on your smartphone, the times are changing. Instagram used to be an exclusive place for smartphone users to create gorgeous photos to share with their friends; it’s no longer the same. Instagram has undergone some big changes…
In the fast-paced lifestyle that this micro-blogging site has given us, the average user may have an edge by knowing these Twitter keyboard shortcuts that can save time and effort. Using Twitter is the lazy man’s best friend since it only has a limited character count, you, for example, do not need to exert much…
Just last weekend, the unimaginable happened for a couple of well-known American brands when their Twitter accounts were commandeered by hackers. Burger King and Jeep had a nightmare on their hands when false (and some vulgar) tweets began spewing from their accounts. Burger King Gets McHacked On Monday of last week, shock and horror ensued…