Facebook Status Replaces Teen Blogging
A new study has shown that young adults are no longer interested in blogging to keep in touch with friends and now is opting for Facebook and Twitter to do the same function.
From Pew Internet & American Life Project report:
Since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology embedded in social networking sites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging ‘macro-blogging’ for microblogging with status updates.
Sun CEO Schwartz Tweeted His Resignation With $12 Million
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz is the first CEO that tweeted his resignation with a 140-character haiku:
Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more.
He walks out with $12 million and it is reported that take over giant Oracle CEO dislike him.
Bill Gates Now On Twitter
The real co-founder of Microsoft and previous CEO, Bill Gates, is now using Twitter. Check it out at: http://twitter.com/billgates
Twitter To Host Chirp Developer Conference
Twitter is to host the official developer conference in Sans Francisco in 2010. The Chirp conference is intended to gather developers responsible for creating the more than 50,000 applications already registered by Twitter.
Google Friend Connect Using Twitter
Users will now able to sign into Google Friend Connect using their Twitter account login.
From Google Blog: Once signed in, your Twitter profile will be automatically linked and you can tweet your new site membership, share discussions from the comments gadget, and invite your friends via Twitter.
Twitter Co-Founder Launches Square iPhone Payment System
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has revealed his new startup called Square, a mobile payments company. Check out the website and video for more info.
Yahoo Adds Photos, Tweets To News
Yahoo is seen to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon when the company includes tweets, photos and videos to news stories. Microsoft and Google had earlier announced plans to incorporate tweets into their search results.
Google And Bing Searches Getting Social
Microsoft has made a deal to have Facebook and Twitter to deliver real-time search results through the Bing search engine. The Bing Beta Twitter search can be found here.
While Google has reached an agreement with Twitter to include updates in search results. No news about Facebook being searched on Google yet. But we are guessing that is coming soon too.
From Google Blog: Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months.
Twitter Rolls Out Group Lists
Do you find when you have lots of people following you on Twitter it is difficult to sort them out. Now Twitter has added the new lists feature which allow you to have group lists. You can also broadcast these groups to friends. This new feature will be available soon.
From Twitter Blog: Lists are public by default (but can be made private) and the lists you’ve created are linked from your profile. Other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists. This means lists have the potential to be an important new discovery mechanism for great tweets and accounts.
Facebook Makes MySpace Bite The Dust
According to Internet monitoring company, Experian Hitwise, Facebook is number 1 and Twitter number 2. MySpace has scores of users walking away. For September 2009, Facebook takes 58.6% of U.S. social networking tracking, a jump of 194% over the same period last year. Over the same period, MySpace has plunged to 33%.
