Twitter have rolled out a new feature showcasing galleries of recently uploaded images from users. Galleries  display the 100 most-recent images the user has shared with their followers dating back to January 1, 2010, from supported photo-sharing services. Clicking view all launches a gallery in ei...

URL: http://thinkupapp.com/ Thinkup started life as a personal project of  Gina Trapani - many of you will already be familiar with her work on Lifehacker.  It is a great free, open source web application that captures your posts, tweets, replies, retweets, friends, followers and links on ...

At some point or another, almost all of us have experienced breaking news which reaches us via Twitter. Tweets spread like wildfire, and give a 140 character word of mouth synopsis that often makes news outlets jump to attention, and start the fact finding process to bring us more on a story. If you...

I managed to get my hands on a alpha preview of Datasift - the tool that I've been raving on about since I first saw a preview of the service. Essentially, its like a Yahoo Pipes for social media, allowing you to see a plethora of data that is happening in real-time on the web, and more easily curat...

Looks like this is either a bug, or an easter egg - but Twitter has some unusual behaviour in the web interface. When you Tweet the word "off" - just on its own, Twitter autotweets a random old post of yours. Not sure on whether this is testing internally exposing something to come, or if its mee...

Just woke up to a new post in Google reader from the guys at Twitter. Looks like they have finally figured out what the business model will be, in the form of a value added service - Promoted Tweets. This little stroke of genius puts allows you to pay for the privilege of exposure, starting with...

Just received a pretty interesting Google alert this morning for - my Twitter account. I'm pretty sad when it comes to this stuff, however every once in a while in turns up something interesting. Anyway, the alert in question gave out this URL - which looks to be an exact copy of my Twitter account,...

There's absolutely no denying that this year on the web, for many companies, realtime is the dream to chase. We are moving at a frightening rate towards the web being more and more integrated with our everyday lives and it closely reflecting whats happening in the world, here and now. Furthermore wi...

An interesting move by Yahoo today, as they launch their own Twitter search tool. An indicator no doubt of the importance that is being placed on Twitter as a platform for search.  Like some of the Adobe AIR  applications that have preceeded it (Tweetdeck and rTweeter) - it is built using Adobe ai...

Quick post for those of you who haven't already seen it - I have recently guest posted over at Twitip - thanks to Darren and Lara for accepting my application to write. Take a read over there and let me know your thoughts. I have focused on the benefits of Twitter for receiving real time help. Th...