Twitter unveils New Ads in Trending Topics Section.

Now the twitter is got in some serious business. Twitter was very strict at third party advertisement but as of now you can see some promoted topics i mean sponsored Topic(links) in Trending Topics section.

These promoted trends are rumored to sell for tens of thousands of dollars. When a user clicks on the trending ad, he is directed to a search results page with the advertiser’s promoted tweet listed at the top.

Twitter unveils New Ads in Trending Topics Section.

Bin Laden on Twitter!?

Here to provide us with his regular updates and opinions, the fake Osama Bin Laden is the newest to join Twitterrati.

Going by the name of "FakeBinLaden", the man in demand already has a plethora of fans on social networking site FaceBook. Reveals an inside source "Following in the footsteps of our many celebrities - the fake Bin Laden is here to entertain us with his thoughts and opinions. He already has created a stir on FB and is now here to take micro blogging site Twitter by storm"

You can find this fake Osama Bin Laden on http://twitter.com/FakeBinLaden.

The identity of the face behind the "FakeBinLaden" is kept under wraps but he will regularly tweet his opinions and other news on an upcoming film also inspired by him

Bin Laden on Twitter!?

Rogue Facebook App on the spamming spree.

Over 190,000 people have so far clicked on a link sent by a rogue Facebook application, which tempts users into giving the application access to their Facebook profile in exchange for seeing a "shocking video" of what is alleged to be a teacher physically assaulting a boy.

Clicking on the bit.ly link redirects Facebook users to a page promoting a Facebook application called "Teacher nearly kills a 13 year old boy. SHOCKING!", which offers what appears to be a video thumbnail of the attack and the encouragement to "Click here, then ALLOW, to see the shocking video".

However, if you are tempted to follow the on-screen instructions to view the video you will also be allowing the third-party application to gain access to your profile, and to repost the spam message to your own wall.

Rogue Facebook App on the spamming spree.

Twitter Launches “Places” Feature with Foursquare Integration.

Twitter is ready to unveil its new and major foray into the world of geolocation: Twitter Places.

This feature will highlight tweets around a given location. Starting now, Twitter.com desktop and mobile users can tag their tweets with existing Twitter Places and add new Twitter Places, too.

Twitter Places can be explored and will reveal a list of recent, public tweets from that location. Twitter will also show you nearby locations and points of interest, including restaurants and shops.

Twitter Places will be integrated with Foursquare and Gowalla), as well. ” Location is a key component of these tweets, so we worked closely with both companies to associate a Twitter Place with Tweets generated by these services,” wrote Twitter geo head Othman Laraki today on the company blog. Location data will also work with more browsers, including Safari and Internet Explorer .

Twitter Launches “Places” Feature with Foursquare Integration.

MTV is looking for a Twitter Jockey.

MTV officials say the search is on for a new social media maven who will engage with the MTV audience and serve as a liaison between viewers and network honchos.

MTV General Manager Stephen Friedman called the TJ position "a natural evolution of how we connect with our audience."

The network has identified 18 potential candidates and is asking its audience to find two more. The 20 hopefuls will compete in a series of online challenges this summer designed to reveal their personalities and demonstrate how they connect with Twitter followers.

Five finalists will ultimately compete on a live show on Aug. 8, when fans will pick who gets the new job.

MTV is looking for a Twitter Jockey.

Facebook Fans Spend More Money.

A social media marketing company called  surveyed surveyed  4,000 people who have “Liked” the top 20 brands that have pages on Facebook and figured out exactly how valuable those “fans” are.

The study (“The Value of a Facebook Fan: An Empirical Review”) estimates that someone who has Liked a brand will spend an average of $71.84 more each year on that brand’s products or services than will someone who has not Liked it on Facebook, for a total average annualized value of $136.38.

This method is very different than the one employed by Vitrue in another fan value study a month ago. Vitrue’s method valued fans by figuring out how much it would cost to buy advertising on a website to reach the same people.

Facebook Fans Spend More Money.

World Cup related traffic can crash twitter.

Twitter, which has suffered a series of outages this week, has warned that there could be more problems amid heavy World Cup traffic.

Mr Jean-Paul Cozzatti, a Twitter engineer, said on the Twitter blog that the micro-blogging service's problems this week were due to an internal network being over-capacity.

Mr Cozzatti said Twitter was doubling capacity and re balancing traffic on the network to redistribute the load.

When Twitter goes down, a picture of a whale — known as the "fail whale" — appears on Twitter.com and Mr Cozzatti said his engineering team was hoping for fewer appearances by the creature.

"You may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic," he said on Friday.

World Cup related traffic can crash twitter.

Twitter Launches Official World Cup Tracking Page.

The FIFA World Cup 2010 is officially opened and football fever is touching its new height. In order to make it easier to follow news and updates about specific teams and matches, Twitter has launched a brand new World Cup portal page.

The new page is smartly designed, displaying upcoming matches, the most interesting tweets (as determined by Twitter’s algorithm) and Twitter staff picks for relevant users to follow.

Twitter Launches Official World Cup Tracking Page.

New facebook design being tested.

Facebook confirmed they are testing this new look in an email to us this afternoon, writing, “we’re currently testing different variations and designs of our Publisher. As with many of our features and products, we’re constantly making tweaks to test performance and usability.”

New facebook design being tested.

Twitter crashes explained by their engineers.

Twitter explaines the causes of — and remedies for — its multiple and massive failures over the past week.

The high number of errors and generally poor performance , this summer’s problem has been one of scale: Twitter is growing so much and so quickly that the engineering team has been challenged when trying to keep up with the sheer volume of data going through the service’s internal network.

What happened that caused this week’s Twitter issues, wrote engineer Jean-Paul Cozzatti, is that the engineering team made three critical mistakes:

• The team put two important, fast-growing, high-bandwith components on the same segment of Twitter’s internal network.
• The network wasn’t being monitored the way it should have been.
• The internal network was also temporarily misconfigured.

To ensure the same mistakes aren’t repeated, Cozzatti continued to outline what Twitter will be doing to fix the problem. He wrote that the company has doubled the capacity of its internal network, improved how it’s monitored and rebalanced its traffic.

Twitter crashes explained by their engineers.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter joins twitter for world cup.

Blatter's account, @seppblatter, went live on Thursday on the eve of the tournament's opening game and the 74-year-old Swiss had already amassed almost 3,000 followers by the early evening.

Blatter is more fortunate than many of the players at the tournament in being able to use the micro-blogging service.

Netherlands players have been banned from using Twitter during the World Cup after Eljero Elia sparked a racism row with comments on a live streaming video.

Src & Text: [reuters]

FIFA president Sepp Blatter joins twitter for world cup.

Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems to Integrate Analytics Tools

Twitter has acquired Smallthought Systems, makers of Dabble DB and Trendly, an analytics dashboard that appears to have inspired the acquisition.

With the acquisition, Twitter (Twitter) will bring the Smallthought team in-house to integrate Trendly concepts into Twitter.

The news is also featured on Dabble DB’s website. The company writes that this is not the end of Dabble DB and that operation and technical support will continue as usual for existing users, although new sign-ups will not be allowed and no new features will be released.

Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems to Integrate Analytics Tools

Twitter blames crashes on 'networking equipment'.

Twitter user, had probably noticed that the microblogging site has been crashing repeatedly this week.

Twitter says on its Status Blog that these "site availability issues" were caused by a problem with networking equipment.

"This networking error prevented us from serving at full capacity," Twitter said Wednesday afternoon.

The problems continued Thursday. About 9:40 a.m. ET, the company posted an update:

"The site is returning an elevated rate of errors and timelines are sporadically backing up and recovering," the company's blog says. "Teams are responding to this incident."

Twitter blames crashes on 'networking equipment'.

Twitter Hits 2 Billion Tweets Per Month.

According to Twitter CTO Dick Costolo, about 65 million tweets are sent on Twitter each day. This equates to roughly 1.96 billion tweets per month, a stat that’s corroborated by Pingdom’s estimate of 2 billion tweets per month.

Just over a week ago, we reported that Twitter hit the 15 billion tweet mark. The service announced its ten billionth tweet just a few months before that, and hit the one billion tweet milestone back in the fall of 2008.

Costolo also stated that the service sees around 135,000 new registrations each day.

Twitter Hits 2 Billion Tweets Per Month.

Stephen Fry crowned the most beautiful tweet.

The most beautiful tweet ever tweeted has been announced by broadcaster Stephen Fry.

Fry, whose musings on micro-blogging site Twitter have attracted 1.5 million followers, announced the winner at the Hay Festival.

The winning tweet read: "I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it'll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put it."

Marc MacKenzie, 41, from Canada, said he was "pleasantly surprised" to win.

"The recognition and knowing Fry picked my tweet is a huge honour."

Stephen Fry crowned the most beautiful tweet.

US mom finds missing kids using Facebook.

San Bernardino: A Southern California mother whose two children were reported missing 15 years ago has tracked them down in Florida using Facebook.

San Bernardino Deputy District Attorney Kurt Rowley says Faustino Utrera, the father of the boy and girl, took off with them in 1995 when they were ages 2 and 3.

Rowley says recently the mother typed one of the children's names into Facebook and a listing for her daughter, now a teenager, came up.

The mom contacted authorities, who tracked the Facebook profile to Orlando, Florida.

Utrera was arrested and charged with kidnapping and violating child custody orders. The Florida Department of Children & Families says themom is trying to build a new relationship with the children.

US mom finds missing kids using Facebook.

Fifa video game comes to Facebook.

The latest video game in the Fifa football series has launched on Facebook rather than on games consoles.

The popularity of social media games has risen in recent years with up to 250 million global players logging on to various games each month.

Previous console Fifa games have retailed at around £30 but FIFA Superstars is free to play online.

The footballers making up each player's team are purchased in packs at a cost of £1 - £2 per pack.

Players pit their teams against those belonging to their Facebook friends.

As the tournament progresses, each player earns points which can also be used to purchase team members.

Unlike console-based versions of Fifa games in which the player can decide to play as a manager, a player or both, on Facebook players can only be managers of virtual teams made up of real players from around the world.

Fifa video game comes to Facebook.

Facebook Beats Yahoo, Wikipedia in Pageviews.

Google's DoubleClick reports that Facebook has defeated 999 other web-related opponents on Google's list of top 1,000 sites. In the midst of all this success, Facebook's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg says he's "not making decisions to maximize the amount of money" that he's making and that one of the most transformative things to build in the world is "something that helps people share information and stay connected."

According to Google's Doubleclick, Facebook receives 570 billion pageviews per month, which is eight times as many pageviews as Yahoo, 15 times as many pageviews as MSN, and 72 times as many pageviews as Wikipedia.

Facebook Beats Yahoo, Wikipedia in Pageviews.

Legal notices can be sent via Facebook, rules judge.

Online social networking site Facebook can also be used to serve legal notices on those evading court hearing, an Australian judge has ruled.

An Adelaide court ordered that Facebook be used for sending legal documents on an elusive alleged father involved in a child support dispute.

The federal magistrate, Stewart Brown, said the case was unusual but "demonstrative of social movements and the currency of the times".

The accused, Howard, had a brief relationship with a woman who later gave birth. The father's name was not mentioned in the birth certificate and the mother's child support application was rejected for lack of legal proof of paternity.

Legal notices can be sent via Facebook, rules judge.

George W. Bush Joins Facebook not twitter.

George W. Bush and/or staff have created a Facebook Page.

the third-person updates and marketing materials for former First Lady Laura Bush’s book are striking a less-than-personal note.

Still, fans of the page are effusive in their praise for the Bushes and have already built the page’s interaction count to an impressively high number. In around 15 hours, a total of two updates have spawned more than 2,900 reactions (that’s Likes and comments counted together), and the page has been Liked by more than 57,000 people.

George W. Bush Joins Facebook not twitter.