Notre Dame Irish Coaches Read Hilarious Student-Athlete Tweets Out Loud

Are you on Twitter? While the social network is a well-known commodity online with millennials, Twitter has yet to fully go mainstream in the U.S. like many expected. So in a hilarious new skit, Notre Dame Fighting Irish coaches, who aren’t too familiar with the platform, decided to read a few of the student-athlete’s Tweets… Continue reading Notre Dame Irish Coaches Read Hilarious Student-Athlete Tweets Out Loud

Twitter Experimenting With View Counts for Your Tweets

Have you ever wondered if anyone actually sees your tweets? A new experiment by Twitter might help you find out. Twitter is testing view counts for tweets viewed from its iOS app according to The Verge. Twitter user Lydia J reported seeing counts for the number of times some of her tweets were viewed. As… Continue reading Twitter Experimenting With View Counts for Your Tweets

Tell Your Story to the World With #TwitterFiction

We all have a story to tell, we just usually don’t tell it on Twitter given the 140-character constraint per Tweet. Yet Twitter is one of the most effective communication tools that exists today. To support writers, Twitter has again partnered with the Association of American Publishers and Penguin Random House to bring us the… Continue reading Tell Your Story to the World With #TwitterFiction

Watch Out for the Sharks on Twitter

It looks like people aren’t the only ones swimming around Twitter these days, as sharks in Western Australia have also taken a liking to the microblogging service. That’s right, sharks have gone social and will send out a tweet every time they are located within about half a mile of shore. Of course, the sharks… Continue reading Watch Out for the Sharks on Twitter

Twitter Rumored to Be Working on Edit Feature for Tweets

You’ve done it again: misspelled a word in your tweet. Now is the time of reckoning. Do you leave the tweet as is, or do you delete it and tweet an improved version? Wait. Someone’s already re-tweeted you! There’s no going back now. If only you could edit that small (but glaring) error out of… Continue reading Twitter Rumored to Be Working on Edit Feature for Tweets

Twitter Releases Scheduled Tweets Feature

Twitter has announced the ability to schedule organic or Promoted Tweets at specific times and dates within a year in advance. The feature is only available to marketers, though, who are currently using Twitter’s Ad Products and can be included in new or existing Promoted Tweet campaigns. According to Twitter: With scheduled Tweets, you can… Continue reading Twitter Releases Scheduled Tweets Feature

Streaming Tweets Through the Streets: The Social City Detector

Social media is present everywhere we go. Yet there is still a thin digital divide between our real life and our online world. Sure, we browse the internet on our computers, tablets and mobile phones anywhere we like, but it’s still through some computing device that negotiates our electronic interactions. Companies like Google and Apple… Continue reading Streaming Tweets Through the Streets: The Social City Detector