Archive for: tweets
The craze over real-time news and search is about to heat up. While Google does in fact get pretty instantaneous updates on many items and topics, Microsoft’s Bing is hitting the ground running and not letting up. The Bing Team is rolling out a new feature that incorporates Tweets into the search results. “Oh great, ten majillion pages full of erroneous results”. Not to fear dear geek for the Bing Team has stated that they only plan on indexing Twitter accounts that they deem worthwhile based on friend count and amount of tweets. So does this new feature seem like a good step in the right direction? I see Google getting the heat turned up ever slightly more. Can Bing really keep going?
Source: Tech Crunch
There’s no doubting the phenomenon Twitter has become. From major news outlets to small town bakery shops, Twitter is taking the world by storm. What better way to share your tweets with the world than to wear them? The “Loud Tweets” pin does just that. It features a 21 x 7 pixel display that will scroll your treets across your chest as to proclaim to the world your every little though, idea, and tweet. Future ideas for this little tweeting wonder include the possibility of GPS/GPRS innards so that the device can become truly mobile and “live”. Boy, sure does make pooping in the bathroom seem like it’s all the rage doesn’t it? Check out this site to see how it all goes down!
Source: The Awesomer, Loud Tweets
Twitter like it or not has exploaded in the last year. Celebrity usage as well as what seems like daily media attention has helped propel Twitter into the mainstream. With that fame comes many people who want to be able to access said accounds and converse with said users. Since using the name Twitter in Twitter apps is heavily frowned upon, Tweet was the next best option. Just take a look at some of the mroe popular Twitter apps: TweetDeck, TweetMeme, and Tweetie just to name a few. Tech Crunch was lucky enough to get a look inside Twitter HQ thanks to a forwarded email. The message has some potential scary implications.
For the real diehard Twitter fans, spending even a few seconds away from their beloved social networking nirvana and gateway the world means agony and frustration set in soon after the separation begins. A true gadget nerd, that is, one who can’t stand to be separated from their electronic addictions for any reasons see sleepy time as one of the longest, most dreadful stretches of time during the 24-hour routine. But why should you have to give up your personal loves just because you eyes are shut and your unconscious? You shouldn’t! Thats why you should take advantage of the Twitter icon pillow. The tweet pillow should at least lessen your short term twitter separation caused twitching and allow you to carry on with the dancing sugar plum show without a care in the world. Come sun up you can awake refreshed with a full night of Twitter *pretend* usage. If you’re really that addicted to the little bird, you might want to cough up the $17.99 and make a brief appearance over at Craftsquatch. Happy Tweeting!
Source: Geeky-Gadgets
Since text messaging and its use by the teenage population exploded not too many years ago, the English language has been getting constant revisions, getting chopped up into smaller and often increasingly cryptic phrases and terms that are at times becoming harder and harder to read. Fret no longer and finally understand what Tweeters are saying.
Twitter’s success and popularity are hard to deny and escape. It seems the world, well, the U.S. at least is entranced by this once tiny micro-blogging service that has in a very short amount of time exploaded into a national phenomenon. Twitter is chaning the way we speak so much so in the future people might even start speaking like tweets in public. Twitter has consumed so much media attention and garned so much press, it is almost hard to think of how we ever lived without Twitter. But what if Twitter was around in a more “analog” form during an older time period, perhaps the 60′s and 70′s. What would Tweets look like then? Behold the “Tweet Shirts” (compliments of Threadless w/ phrase coined by Gear Log). What are Tweet Shirts and what can we Tweet to the outside world with our shirts?
If Google Maps and Twitter were to ever wed and conceive a child, what would it be? That question I can now finally answer: Stweet. Stweet allows you to add in Google Maps info and pictures to your tweets making sending your information to a potential predator or other creeper all the more easier. Yaaaay! In all seriousness, this is a pretty cool marriage that surprisingly took even this long to come to market. If you’re a Twit-o-holic and loving knowing where everyone is (or everyone knowing where you are), or simply are a visual type of person, stop on by Sweet.com and give it a shot. Let us know how it goes!
Source: The Awesomer
Ok, this is by far the coolest Twitter related news I have seen in most likely ever. Are you such a Twitter junky that you risk your job, income, house, family, etc. on letting the world know about your life in 140 or less characters? If so, now you can do so a bit more safely and confidently. SpreadTweeter is an ingenious program that will disguise you Tweeting habits by way of a fake Excel looking window. Instead of the usual flashy and graphic rich appearance of pretty much every other Twitter app, SpreadTweeter brings extreme simplicity and office appearance to the popular micro-blogging service making work Tweeting less dangerous. What versions of Excel does it mimic and how easy is it to install? The answers to that and so much more are just inside.
There’s nothing more frustrating than rushing to get ready for whatever occasion, realizing you forgot something on the way to the train station, then getting to the station only to realize your train has been delayed. Sure you can sign onto the computer and visit Metra’s website for advisories, but who has time for that? Gadget loving readers of mine, if you happen to use Twitter and ride Chicago’s Metra train system you can now receive Tweets of Metra train delays. Read on for the full scoop as well as the links to the right “people” to follow on Twitter.
