Twitter: Page: 4

This is page 4 of the Twitter posts on Writers Write.


  • Twitter Begins Local Trending Topics (2010-01-24): Mashable reports that Twitter has started rolling out local trending topics.

  • LSSU Publishes 2010 Banned Words List (2010-01-21): Reuters reports that Lake Superior State University wordsmith's have published a list of banned words for 2010.

  • Twijote Project to Put Text of Don Quixote on Twitter (2010-01-14): Fans of Cervante's Don Quixote de la Mancha are determined to put the entire book on Twitter, one tweet at a time.

  • Google Named Word of Decade. Tweet Named Word of the Year (2010-01-11): The Washington Post reports that the word "tweet" has been named the word of the year and "Google" has been named the word of the decade by the American Dialect Society.

  • Britney Spears Twitter Account Hacked Again (2009-11-12): Britney Spears' Twitter account, @britneyspears, was hacked for at least the third time today.

  • Jim Carrey's Twitter Bird (2009-11-07): Jim Carrey's bizarre new website should win the award for best version of a Twitter bird.

  • Celebrity Twitter Accounts Among Most Listed Twitter Accounts (2009-11-01): There are some blog posts discussing the most listed Twitter accounts that claim Mashable is the second most listed Twitter account.

  • Barack Obama, Taylor Swift Are Most Listed Twitterers (2009-10-29): President Barack Obama and Taylor Swift appear to be the most listed people or organizations on Twitter as of this writing.

  • Oh Lord. It's the 5 Billionth Tweet (2009-10-19): This tweet by Robin Sloan is apparently the 5 billionth tweet on Twitter.

  • Twitter Lists Make Twitter More Useful (2009-10-17): Twitter Lists are great new way to organize information and follow tweets on Twitter.

  • Big Mouth Billy Bass Connected To Twitter (2009-10-14): A clever individual has connected his Big Mouth Billy Bass to Twitter using an mbed microcontroller. Now you do it at home.

  • Twitter to Launch Twitter Lists (2009-10-01): Twitter blogged yesterday that it will soon add a feature called Lists.

  • J.K. Rowling Joins Twitter (2009-09-29): Tired of other people impersonating her, J.

  • Most Tweets Fall Into Pointless Babble Category (2009-08-13): The SFGate's tech blog called The Tech Chronicles has summarized the findings from a new study (PDF) from Pear Analytics.

  • ESPN Bans Reporters From Twitter, Social Networks (2009-08-10): The New York Times reports that ESPN has established guidelines that prohibit its reporters from tweeting about sports.

  • U.S. Marine Corps Bans Twitter, Social Networks (2009-08-04): Wired's Danger Room blog reports that the U.

  • Twitter Debuts New Homepage (2009-07-28): Twitter has launched a new homepage.

  • Royal Family Joins Twitter (2009-07-12): The BBC reports that the British Royal Family has joined Twitter.

  • Bing Search Returns Tweet From Popular Twitter Accounts (2009-07-02): Microsoft's new search engine Bing is now indexing tweets from some popular Twitter accounts.

  • Author Alice Hoffman Criticizes Book Critic on Twitter (2009-06-29): The L.