We Are Social People

We’ve seen #newlook, #newtwitter, so I guess this is #newlooknewnewtwitter? Twitter has released another styling update, which bears striking resemblance to the Facebook Timelines released earlier this year. Now you can have a header on the top of your profile. There are two ways to do it. From your computer (Twitter.com): Step 1: Go to [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Twitter told developers they would be tightening their Display Guidelines to help facilitate a “consistent user experience.”  Yesterday, Twitter announced it is in the process of upgrading its API, and enforcing a type of “certification” for certain applications. Today’s Twitter ecosystem According to the Twitter post to developers, @sippey (Michael [...]

Twitter recently sent out an email to 3rd party developers in the hopes of designing a more unified Twitter experience. According to dev.twitter.com: “Users must have a consistent experience wherever they interact with Tweets, whether on Twitter.com, a mobile client, website, or in an application developed with the Twitter API. To ensure consistency across the [...]

When I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed the other day I noticed that my friend Rosie liked Target.  I opened it up again today, and see that it’s still at the top of my newsfeed. Then I saw it, small, not very noticeable: sponsored. At first I felt cheated. I look to my newsfeed [...]

It’s summer, it’s late June and you have a rather giddy feeling growing inside you. This is the year you get to join members of your company at one of THE major shows of the year. Its not just any show either, It’s one connected to the Society of Human Resource Management; a fairly BIG [...]

According to status.twitter.com Twitter is currently down.   This outage is also affecting third party applications, who rely on Twitter to be up to post through the API. So, until they fix the issue, it seems the world will spend some time without Tweets. Something that hasn’t been seen in over 5 years!   Update: [...]

A few months ago I wrote “Tweet now, Phone Later” about how Twitter customer support is often far superior to phone support. But, old habits die hard, so when I needed to get in touch with someone about my new Verizon phone order, I found myself on endless hold listening to recordings of the latest [...]

Ever worry what people think of your brand? Or the general mood of your neighbours and district? What if there was a way to find out? Well, it’s on our doorstep! http://mediapatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/mood/ Some pretty fancy-pantsy scientists at the University of Bristol have come up with a nifty way of keeping track of peoples emotions. Actually [...]

Framed in a fun way, the light hearted Tag Challenge is a brainchild of a group of graduate students spanning six countries. The main aim of the project is to see how social media could be used to improve transatlantic security. The aim of the game is hunt down ‘Criminals’ whose photos are posted on [...]

The inspiration of this blog needs to be attributed to the purchase of the iPhone 4 by @caryjames1. Upon getting the phone, he suddenly realized that he had access to a world in which he NEVER had with his flip phone: Apps. After falling madly in love with his new shiny toy, he moved onto [...]