Latest Microblogging Stories

From palm readers to the Weather Channel to Dionne Warwick and her Psychic Friends, people have always been interested in ways to foresee the future. Sometimes, as in the case of meteorology, these methods are based in science and at other times these predictions are based in something quite different. A University of California, Riverside professor recently looked to Twitter to help predict the traded volume and value of a stock for the following day. Using a trading model based on...

A new social wing of The New York Times opens with The Lively Morgue on Tumblr, boasting an elegant theme. This opens the way for other news publications to create their own collection of photos on the popular micro-blogging service using themes from The Layout Shop. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 21, 2012 The New York Times recently launched The Living Morgue, a photo archive of historical photographs from the publication’s past onto the very popular micro-blogging service Tumblr....

Although it feels like a lifetime at internet speeds, Twitter was only started six years ago when co-founder Jack Dorsey sent out his first Twitter message: ‘just setting up my twttr’ in March 2006. Little did he know that his little blue bird was going to become the major source of news, gossip and sharing that it is today. Founded by Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006, the micro-blogging site was launched publicly in July 2006. Dick Costolo was appointed the...

LOS ANGELES, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. Warren Wang, CEO of ChineseInvestors.COM, an Indiana Corporation (OTCBB Symbol 'CIIX') announced that the Company has just launched a new 'Microblog' (www.weibo.com/chinesefn) featuring Company information and services similar to its website in association with WEIBO; one of China's premier social media sites having in excess of 300 million registered users and an activity metric of over 100 million posts per day....

CitySpoon’s SpoonerSpot launches its final phase of testing and encourages interested users to sign up now. Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) March 08, 2012 SpoonerSpot.com has officially begun its open beta testing phase and is inviting interested parties to be a part of the fun! SpoonerSpot, a new social networking platform under development by CitySpoon Inc., has garnered significant attention since the company first announced the project at the beginning of 2012. The site features a geographic...

Deleted Messages Include Terms Ranging From "Falun Gong" to "Iodized Salt" Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science analyzed millions of Chinese microblogs, or "weibos," to uncover a set of politically sensitive terms that draw the attention of Chinese censors. Individual messages containing the terms were often deleted at rates that could vary based on current events or geography. The study is the first large-scale analysis of political content censorship...

AUSTIN,Texas, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Womzit announced today that it will be launching its debut iPhone App at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences and Festivals in Austin TX (March 9-18, 2012). With over 5,000 events taking place at this annual convergence of original music, independent films and emerging technologies, one can easily get lost in the sea of choices. With Womzit (an abbreviation for "word-of-mouth it"), attendees can spread their positive...

The nascent job hunting portal JobPrimer.com has reached the milestone achievement of crossing the threshold of 2,000 followers on the popular microblogging platform Twitter. Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) March 02, 2012 JobPrimer is a young web site which helps job seekers by highlighting employment opportunities at targeted businesses and organizations. The web site provides specific advice on successfully achieving employment with Microsoft, Coca-Cola, General Electric, MIT, Twitter, and...

Two research companies who have been licensed by Twitter to access archived posts on the microblogging website are preparing to release information to paying clients, despite the protests of online privacy advocates. As reported by Telegraph Digital Media Editor Emma Barnett on Tuesday, Twitter this week announced a partnership with Datasift, a UK company that touts itself as "the world's first social-data platform," that will grant the firm access to all Twitter posts or "tweets" dating...

NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SocialFlow, the leading social media content optimization platform, today announced the public availability of the SocialFlow Optimized Publisher for brands and businesses of all sizes. Using applied mathematics and language analysis to understand audiences, topics, attention and engagement on the real-time social graph, the Optimized Publisher lets businesses know and leverage the precise value of each piece of content they...