Archive for the ‘twitter’ tag

Logging Out To Get Some Real Work Done

Social network users are committing digital 'suicide' to spend more time on their 'real' lives. Will quitting social media become the hottest social media trend of 2010?

Death Of The Week: Roc Raida

DMC Grandmaster Roc Raida was a gentleman, a showman, and a man who could do amazing things with two turntables and a crossfader. But his unexpected death was the result of his devotion to MMA.

Twitter TV Tanks

Fox decides to clog up reruns of its shows with a real-time Twitter commentary, Neighbours sets up accounts for its characters, and everyone wonders: can TV get interactivity right?

Calvin Harris Causes Us To Question Our Socioeconomic Privilege

Scottish synth-pop fella Calvin Harris recently went ballistic on Twitter, accusing music critics who gave his new album lukewarm reviews of being "FUCKING RICH PEOPLE'S KIDS".

Review: 5 Gum, ‘Stimulate Your Senses’

Are you man enough to chew 5 gum? Well, are ya? Prods wimp in pigeon-chest. Wrigley's blows us away with its 'Stimulate Your Senses' campaign.

Google Waves Goodbye To Depth And Privacy

The internet has allowed us to communicate with almost anyone in the world. Google's latest innovation, Google Wave, will allow us to communicate with almost anyone in the world. At once. For all to see.

The Rise Of Twitter-Jacking

This week Vogue Australia sent in the lawyers to stop a squatter from Twittering in its name. We chat with another media owner who had the same thing happen to him.

Taste The Monetisation

Visitors to Skittles.com have been redirected to a Twitter search page overlaid with a small Skittles-branded widget. Is this a fearless ad campaign in an online social network, or Twitter's own plan to make money?