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Hurricane Sandy, the Category 1 storm currently threatening $20 billion dollars in economic damage, has been terrorizing the East Coast of the US just in time for Halloween. Sure, the US coast has faced down a number of storms in its past; after all, the Gulf Coast in particular is well known for having a [...]

David Cameron may be eating his words slightly, as he finally sent out his first tweet on Twitter this weekend after having the account parked for ages and ages. Remember that “too many twits might make a twat” comment from 2009? Well, apparently an opinion or two can change in three years. On the 6th [...]

The US fall television season is upon us and with it comes a flurry of extravagant, elaborate and epic ad campaigns, vying for our undivided attentions and addictions until the sun pokes its elusive head over the horizon of spring 2013. Of course, any TV network worth its salt knows that the internet is the [...]

The tech industry knows Twitter is important for reaching a huge potential audience. The problem is, it’s often difficult to quantify what exactly that influence looks like. Follower count? It’s become hilariously thrown into the limelight recently that some users (particularly semi-celebrities) have been accused of buying followers. Klout was supposed to fill this gap between [...]

#bbpBox_237264736922767360 a { text-decoration:none; color:#1F98C7; }#bbpBox_237264736922767360 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } Today in fatwas: buying followers on Twitter is sinful, says Sheikh Abdullah. (No wonder Mitt Romney is so opposed to sharia!) August 19, 2012 7:08 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite @LailaLalami Laila Lalami From Republican presidential candidates to celebrities and beyond, the practice of buying Twitter followers [...]

If you don’t know what the Mars Rover is, where have you been? The internet is all a-twitter with goings-on from the Curiosity Rover, which NASA successfully landed on the planet surface just a week ago.  The Curiosity Rover, an Automated Robot, will be roaming the planet for the next 2 years looking for evidence [...]

Chances are you have heard of the crowd funding site Kickstarter, but incase you haven’t let us give you a really brief introduction. Kickstarter was founded in 2008 by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler, the simple idea behind the site was to create a place where ideas could be made a reality by [...]

Ok, let’s start with a confession – I’m a bit of a Twitter addict. Actually it’s not just Twitter, I’ll try most social media platforms but as a rule if I’m awake, I can be found on Twitter. I use it on my work PC and my laptop on Tweetdeck (old Tweetdeck – NEVER new [...]

Car insurance comparison website Confused.com is launching a new service, Quick Quote, which allows users to text your number plate to Confused and in within seconds, the user will receive the lowest car insurance rate for them. Confused is so confident in the speed of their service for finding you the best car insurance rates, [...]

In the last few days we’ve read some pretty impacting news related to Twitter and censorship.  The social media site has announced in its blog that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets based on the country of origin of the user. The other news is that two UK tourists were turned back [...]