Tag: twitter
Film studios ban stars from Twitter
Hollywood studios are banning A-listers from leaking information via Twitter over fears the film industry is being damaged.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a recent contract issued by Disney has banned confidentiality breaches via ‘interactive media such as Facebook, Twitter or any other interactive social networking site, blog or other internet-type site.’
Apparently, rival studio DreamWorks has issued similar guidelines, meaning Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers, who are due to make a Shrek film next year, could be two of the stars affected.
An entertainment lawyer told the Hollywood Reporter: ‘Hollywood has a long history of controlling what talent says in the media. This is just a new area of media that hasn’t been controlled yet.’
Last month American Idol judge Paula Abdul dramatically announced that she had quit her role on Twitter. Fox News later issued an official reaction but the news had already spread worldwide.
First UK Twitter awards announced
The Golden Twits award show will throw the media spotlight onto the phenomenally popular micro-blogging format once again.
Four reasons why Tweetie 2 is the best Twitter iPhone app
There are lots of very cool features just below the surface. So for example if you want to see someone's profile you just touch the tweet. If you move your finger slightly to the right it brings up a host of other options such as retweet, favourite etc.
FourSquare iPhone app arrives in London
Well, Foursquare lets you see little comments and tips that people have left pegged to locations in London. You too can leave these tips reader, call them geo-tagged tweets if you will. Like some kind of game, you get rewarded for leaving more tips by being given badges. You set up a minimal profile, and add friends and can also contact your friends over the service.
Are RSS, Posterous/Tumblr and constant linking killing Twitter?
For me the joy of Twitter is that it is one huge personalised RSS feed. You take all the people in the world that you find cool and interesting and then you get to see what they are reading. Everyone has a point of view and a right to share their content. That's what makes it fascinating.
Twitter fun – My Tweet 16 – or how Twitter was nearly called Twttr
From this we can denote that Twitter was nearly called Twttr (eek) and also that Ev set himself a low standard for his feed from day one. Then again if you are first on Twitter I guess you don't have many followers to entertain…
Can Twitter help you lose weight? Tweet What You Eat hopes so
You use it to tweet about all you eat and then use its calorie counter database to see how much you have consumed. The idea being that you think twice before you head for the biscuit tin as you know you'll have to share it with your Twitterverse.
Twitter Labs on its way
According to Twitter's user experience and front end engineering lead Britt Selvitelle it will be a little like Google Labs but rather than Twitter developers showcase their innovations it will be open to developers from anywhere.
People get bored with Twitter quicker than they do with Facebook, says research
Apparently over 40% of respondents who said they had tried Twitter only used it once or twice before getting bored. That's four times the number of people who give up on Facebook. It does suggest that these are people who have heard of Twitter, felt like they needed to give it a go, but have no real idea how to use it.
Brizzly review – it is like the Twitter home page on steroids
Even cooler IMO is the way Brizzly embeds content, so for example if someone has the URL of a YouTube video in their tweet the video pops up in the Brizzly stream.
