- Tweet to donate to SVP today with Sage Ireland #SageXmasGiving Today, Friday, Sage Ireland is encouraging its social media followers and customers to send a tweet with the hashtag #SageXmasGiving. For every tweet published that includes the hashtag, Sage will donate €1 to St. Vincent de Paul, the largest charitable organisation in Ireland.
- Pitch your Irish start-up idea on Twitter and win €10,000 Usually start-up pitches are weeks if not months in the making, but not this one. Entrepreneur turned investor Niall Harbison is inviting start-ups to pitch their ideas in 140 characters or less for the chance to secure vital initial funding.
- How much is a single tweet or Facebook status update worth? Every time you tweet, post a Facebook status update or pin something on Pinterest, you help contribute to that respective company's revenue. But just how much? Is it possible to express, in terms of revenue, the value of a single tweet, for example?
- Director James Cameron tweets from deepest point of Earth's ocean James Cameron, renowned director of films like Titanic and Avatar, has successfully completed his solo submarine journey to the deepest point of the Earth's ocean, the Mariana Trench.
- Twitter account will live-tweet story of Titanic on 100th anniversary Next month marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic - then the world's largest passenger ship. To commemorate, a new Twitter account will 'live'-tweet her disastrous maiden journey, narrated in first-person as if coming directly from those involved.
- Twitter introduces major redesign, here's how to get it now Twitter has just announced a major platform design overhaul, simplifying elements and insuring consistency across twitter.com, TweetDeck, and mobile apps. They'll be rolling out the new design over the "next few weeks" but here's how to get it now.
- Lifespan of a tweet and Klout score directly linked Klout, the social influence measuring tool, has analysed a week's worth of retweet data and unsurprisingly concluded that the lifespan of a tweet is significantly longer for users with higher Klout scores - up to 67 times longer.
- First ever tweet from Mount Everest summit sent British climber and mountain guide Kenton Cool has sent the first ever tweet from the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Cool reached the summit yesterday for the ninth time and sent the tweet from a sponsored Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone.
- The last 24 hours of the 2011 Irish General Election campaign according to Twitter #ge11 [Infographic] Last week we used the power of Google Search to predict the outcome of the 2011 Irish General Election. Now, on the eve of the election, we turn to Twitter, not to predict results, but to provide some insightful analysis on political party and political party leader performances during the last official twenty-four hours of their campaign.