Twitter Launches Official Twitter Share Bookmarklet

Aug 20, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

There are already numerous Twitter bookmarklets and browser extensions on the market that make it easy for Internet users to share any site with their Twitter friends. Today, Twitter itself is joining the fray with its own, official Twitter Tweet Button.

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Embedding an Official Tweet Button (just for the sake of it)

Aug 10, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Tweet Looks like Twitter is launching its own Tweet buttons later this week. While you can already embed the code (see below), not everybody can actually use the button to retweet the post yet. Just for the sake if it, I have embedded the code (courtesy of Mashable) here. I’m guessing we will see a [...]

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TweetDeck Goes Real Time – And It’s a Whole New Way of Using Twitter

Jul 29, 2010 1 Comment by Frederic Lardinois

Yesterday, TweetDeck’s Richard Barley announced a new beta version of the popular Twitter (and Buzz, LinkedIn and Facebook) client. In this new version, TweetDeck uses Twitter’s new streaming API to display tweets in real time. Until now, clients had to poll Twitter’s servers at regular intervals to update your searches and lists. Now, Twitter just [...]

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Hacker Who Defaced President Obama's Twitter Account Arrested in France

Mar 24, 2010 1 Comment

According to French news agency AFP, the hacker who defaced U.S. President Barack Obama’s Twitter account last year was arrested by French police earlier today. This hacker, who goes by the pseudonym “Hacker Croll” is also infamous for leaking a number of Twitter’s internal documents to TechCrunch.

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