A quick tweet can blast through Twitter like wildfire. All it takes is a click of a button and anyone can help push that 140 character shout just a little further through cyberspace, until everybody knows. This is what it looks like when that happens. Read More >>
The furore over past comments made by high-profile youth police and crime commissioner Paris Brown has claimed her bouffant scalp, with the 17-year-old quitting her advisory job after her slightly dodgy youthful tweets triggered a modern-day outrage. Read More >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"The thing's (although limited) I've heard that she's apparently said weren't even bad. Just your typical teenage calling someone gay/a fag as an insul..." More »
Featured comment by EddyCJ:
"At first I was thinking '1046 seconds! That's no time at all!' and 'that would make sense - that's why twitter repeats itself so often' until I realis..." More »
Twitter is modern-day people-watching. Anytime you check it, you see what a person is thinking or doing or saying. But it's not all happening in a digital vacuum, they're on break at work tweeting about their boss; they're outside a hospital tweeting about their day; they're always somewhere tweeting about something. This photo project, Geolocations, by Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman show where people are when they send out tweets. It's completing the picture. Read More >>
Featured comment by bikerlifestyle:
"one question, why would you want to
you have to be pretty vain to want to keep your tweets
maybe you could print them out and whe you are old show t..." More »
Twitter is such an everyday part of daily life and tech news that it's kind of hard to imagine what it was like way back in its infancy. Fortunately you don't have to; Buzzfeed dug up some ancient nuggets from the "tech elite" for your perusal. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jon D:
"I just resurrected my twitter account. Hadnt logged in since 2009 and forgot my password
My first tweet, 15 December 2006:
Scratching myself" More »
Here are the stats on the average Twitter user: she's a 28 years old American girl who has an iPhone, has 208 Twitter followers while following 102 people, tweets a lot about fashion and family, likes the colour purple and uses "love" quite frequently in her Tweets. Did I just describe someone you know? Read More >>
Featured comment by Jon D:
"The only people I followed when I used it was bloggers I read. I quickly got tired of that though, since I read their blogs anyway, so there wasn't mu..." More »
Maybe you tweet mostly about lunch, or other seemingly inane things, but your Twitter stream forms something of a journal for most users. It is a micro-blog, after all. Now, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is saying you'll be able to download all your past tweets by the end of the year. Read More >>
I hardly remember 2006. You probably don't either. But that's when Twitter first started! And looking back how we tweeted that fateful first year, it's probably better left as a distant memory. Just check out how awful everyone was at it: Read More >>
Featured comment by Oflife:
"Twitter MUST have been active earlier than that. Read this...
One fine day, I was with one of my software architects in Essex. For a while now he h..." More »
Rick and Erica Jones have been trying to adopt a baby for the past three years. Unfortunately for the Michigan couple, their adoption agency (Morningstar Adoption Center) doesn't have the means to market their clients — nor do the Jones's have the enough money to pay for the services of a larger, more successful adoption agency. Read More >>