Tag Archive - Twitter

Publish Sync Automatically Syncs New Posts Between Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and More [Downloads]

10 August 2011 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
Publish Sync Automatically Syncs New Posts Between Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and More [Downloads]

Chrome: If you’re still looking for a way to easily make your posts on Facebook appear on Twitter or Google+, Publish Sync is a Chrome extension that gives you the flexibility to post the same thing to one or all of your other social networks at the same time. More » Jon’s starred items in Google [...]

Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

25 June 2011 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

In a rare occurrence for Twitter, a holiday trend topped our chart for two weeks in a row. Father’s Day remains in the number one spot with a mix of sentiment and related hashtags. International soccer returns to the number two slot after a week on the bottom rungs, and buzz about the NBA Draft [...]

Use Gmail as a Sort of Twitter Client with Rapportive [Updates]

11 June 2011 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
Use Gmail as a Sort of Twitter Client with Rapportive [Updates]

Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Mailplane: Rapportive, a plugin which we’ve previously mentioned for its Gmail-enhancing powers, has recently added Twitter capabilities. So now you can follow, reply to, and retweet your contacts—all without leaving Gmail. More » Jon’s starred items in Google Reader

“American Idol” Twitter Curse Is Right Again

26 May 2011 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
“American Idol” Twitter Curse Is Right Again

Sweet-faced Southern belle Lauren Alaina gracefully bowed out as 17-year-old baritone and Southern gentleman Scotty McCreery walked away with the honors for this season’s American Idol singing competition. Strangely enough, Twitter predicted the winner in an unexpected way. It’s called the “Twitter curse,” where the number of tweets about a contestant has an odd way [...]

Read Twitter & Facebook as a Newspaper With paper.li

25 January 2011 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
Read Twitter & Facebook as a Newspaper With paper.li

The newspaper industry is dying, but that doesn’t mean that our love for newspapers has die as well. Our mental connection with the form and feel of a newspaper is hard to erase. It’s the inherent disability of reading news that happened a day before, instead of knowing it as and when it happens, that hurts [...]