This month, the Library of Congress formally announced a plan to digitally store every single tweet ever twittered. Due to it’s use as a news reporting tool and event record, a twitter archive could serve as an fantastic resource for future generations to look back to us and study our social culture.
Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets per day. The Library will receive all public tweets-which number in the billions-from the 2006 inception of the service to the present.
“The Twitter digital archive has extraordinary potential for research into our contemporary way of life,” said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
Hugo Chavez, the current President of Venezuela has joined the rest of us on Twitter despite trying to block the website just a month ago. His political influence in South America (partly due to his use of Venezuela’s oil wealth and his adversarial relationship with the United States) have given him a comparatively high geopolitical profile.
Chavez has not announced what his new account will be, but unfortunately for him it looks like the screen names @hugo, @chavez and @hugochavez are all being used. Chavez said: “I’m going to have my online trench from the palace to wage the battle. I’ll provide information and even respond to my enemies.”
Other heads of state on Twitter include President Barack Obama (with 3.7 million followers!), the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, although ironically Twitter makes the extra effort to verify the accounts of western leaders (a service that isn’t available to dictators).
With Remoteless you can search and browse all Spotify music, store favourite artists, albums and tracks, start songs or playlists, skip songs, change the volume. It also displays the song you are currently listening to and has a handy toggle shuffle & repeat. It is password protected & simple to set up.
It lets you control your Windows PC Spotify client from afar over Wi-Fi. But you need to install a small program on it first so there’s no OS X version yet but the developer says a Mac port is coming.
We must remember that this app actually has nothing to do with Spotify so will we now see Spotify improve on their initial app offering and bring out Spoti-trol?! Or is that just counjering a bad image!! Whatever happens, we think they will be able to improve and upgrade on this good idea.
Every Saturday and Sunday night X Factor and it’s contestants are making the Twitter community log on and take over the Social Network!
Even if your a fan of Jedward and their ‘Singing’ and ‘dancing’ or not people can’t get enough of it. With peoples comments of their reactions from performances and the judges ‘comments’ in both nights shows posted on Twitter it looks set to be a takeover every weekend!
With 51,000+ followers of the X Factor show it has been reported that X Factor occupied half of Twitter’s top global topics list through the Sunday night show.
After waiting some time, Twitter has finally been launched onto the Xbox 360!
To start checking for updates on your followers you first need to install the new System Update. You can then find it in a new My Community channel. After it has all been installed your ready to go but there is only a slight problem with this and that is you can only access it if you are over 18, but for you who are under 18 sit tight for a while because this rule is only temporarily!
Microsoft said in a press release: “With Twitter and Facebook on Xbox 360 the largest social networks combine seamlessly with the largest entertainment and gaming network, Xbox Live. If you already have Twitter and / or Facebook accounts integrating your friends list is so simple. You’ll be posting “tweets” from your sofa via Twitter, and post screenshots of your greatest gaming achievements accessible to Facebook friends in no time – one of the first games to allow this will be a future version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour.”
This month, the Library of Congress formally announced a plan to digitally store every single tweet ever twittered. Due to it’s use as a news reporting tool and event record, a twitter archive could serve as an fantastic resource for future generations to look back to us and study our social culture.
Hugo Chavez, the current President of Venezuela has joined the rest of us on Twitter despite trying to block the website just a month ago. His political influence in South America (partly due to his use of Venezuela’s oil wealth and his adversarial relationship with the United States) have given him a comparatively high geopolitical profile.