You either like runny eggs or you can't tolerate that kind of mess on your plate. Twitter's no different. The place can get messy in a hurry and a messy home is no place for an infovore to dwell. That's why Twitter has been testing its new lists feature among a select group of Tweeps. To give Tweeps the power to clean, to make order, to feel good about where things are. Yesterday, the new lists feature was made …
What You’re Having For Lunch Soon To Be Bingable
Kara Swhisher is breaking the news that Microsoft has inked an important new search deal with Twitter and Facebook. The pact will bring status updates to the Bing search engine. Swisher says, "The deal is a definite blow to the dominant search engine, since-for the first time-data will be available on Bing that is not on Google." Facebook sees 40 million updates a day on average. That's a lot of mostly meaningless …
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Today In Twitterverse: Re:cycled Tweets
According to Re:cycled Tweets from McKinney, "it's time to stop polluting Twitter with boring. Littering it with the literal. And inundating it with the uninteresting." [via TweetFreak] …
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This Flight Tracker Is Social
Branded utility is starting to soar and it's a good to see. According to Adweek, Lufthansa and its digital agency Profero have launched MySkyStatus, an application that sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages. MySkyStatus works on any flight on any airline, which is a nice touch. Profero North America CEO Wayne Arnold says, this not only widens the …
One In Ten Chinese Internet Users “Drink” Pepsi
For it's fourth annual Creative Challenge in China, Pepsi partnered with Tencent, China's internet giant, to effectively allow Chinese netizens the ability to twitter, blog and IM their birthday wishes to China. Here's a look at some of the wishes: The People's Intermediate Court as the brain, national defense as the heart, people's livelihood as the blood, the economy as the skeleton - these four parts combine to …
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Today In Twitterverse: No Need To Tweek
Moses Ma, a partner at Next Generation Ventures, writing in Psychology Today says Twitter "acts to fill a deep psychological need in our society." ...we are a culture starved for real community. For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings have resided in tribes of about 30-70 people. Our brains are wired to operate within the social context of community - programming both crucial and ancient for human …
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Today In Twitterverse: It Takes A Village To Raise A Brand
According to Penn State Live, Jim Jansen, associate professor of information science and technology in the College of Information Sciences and Technology has been studying Twitter. What he found by looking at half a million Tweets is that 20 percent contain requests for product information or responses to the requests. "People are using tweets to express their reaction, both positive and negative, as they engage with …
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It’s Really The Machine’s Fault
Sony Vaio W Series claims to be the perfect machine for social media addicts. They sure have a funny way of showing it: Be sure to visit the Social Media Addicts Association web site, StopWritingOnMyWall.com, where you can make your own video confessions, sign a petition or purchase t-shirts that say things like "I Have Real Friends" and "@everyone, leave me alone!!!". This is good stuff. If AdPulp gave out awards, …
