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.CO celebrates one millionth domain registration The domain registry authority responsible for operating .CO domains has today announced that over one million such domains have been registered since global launch in July 2010. It has taken the .CO Internet S.A.S. just under one year to achieve this commendable milestone. Darren McCarra No responses 2nd June 2011
Twitter upgrades search, integrates with Firefox and partners with Photobucket Twitter has announced that it has upgraded its internal search, now integrates with search on the Firefox web browser and has partnered with Photobucket to host photos that can now be directly uploaded from Twitter. Darren McCarra No responses 2nd June 2011
Twitter to launch its own photo-sharing service Twitter will launch its own photo-sharing service later this week if reports from All Things Digital are true. It's understood that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will announce the service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California tomorrow. Darren McCarra No responses 31st May 2011
Tourism Ireland’s week long social media road trip Tomorrow, Saturday, is the first day of a week long Tourism Ireland initiative where social media determines the road trip route taken by two avid British adventurers visiting Ireland. Their trip begins tomorrow in Belfast and ends seven days later in Cork, with the public deciding their journey southwards throughout the week. Darren McCarra No responses 20th May 2011
Has Twitter passed the 300 million registered users mark? Twitter has just passed the 300 million registered users mark according to Twopcharts, a service that analyses interesting and influential Twitter users in various locations and varying languages. Twitter passed the milestone at the start of this week on May 16th, and is currently witnessing 6.3 new account registrations every second. Darren McCarra No responses 19th May 2011
Initiative to get Ireland trending on Twitter during Obama’s state visit #IRLday To coincide with US President Barack Obama’s state visit to Ireland on May 23rd, an initiative that attempts to get Ireland trending on Twitter that day is well under way. The initiative, started by PocketNative, hopes that a high volume of tweets containing the hashtag ‘#IRLday’ will ensure that the topic trends on Twitter during the President’s visit and Ireland receives the attention of over 200 million other Twitter users. Darren McCarra 4 responses 14th May 2011
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. Darren McCarra No responses 6th May 2011
YouTube founders acquire social bookmarking site Delicious from Yahoo! Yahoo!’s once seemingly ill-fated social bookmarking service Delicious has been sold to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen for an undisclosed sum. Delicious will now fold into a newly created internet company AVOS. Darren McCarra 2 responses 28th April 2011
New Irish awards ceremony, the Irish Social Media Awards, announced While the announcement of the death of the Irish Blog Awards last week in Belfast may have disappointed some, the birth of a new Irish awards ceremony again headed by Damien Mulley, the Irish Social Media Awards, will delight thousands of businesses and organisations throughout Ireland. And yes, this is Project X!. Darren McCarra 2 responses 29th March 2011
Twestival 2011 kicking off in Dublin, Galway and Belfast Twestival 2011 is kicking off right about now across Ireland, bringing Twitter users together in tangible form and raising money for charity in the process. Tonight's Twestival events in Dublin, Galway and Belfast promise to provide entertainment, a chance to meet like-minded people, and of course help their respective causes. Darren McCarra No responses 24th March 2011