- What was the first ever tweet? Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, is celebrating its fifth birthday today. While much can be said about the platform's phenomenal organic evolution since 2006, many question what was the first ever tweet tweeted on Twitter?
- Social news curation site paper.li raises $2.1 million Paper.li, a site that “organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook into an easy to read newspaper-style format” has just raised $2.1 million in funding. SmallRivers, the Swiss company behind paper.li will receive capital from Highland Capital Partners, SoftBank Capitol, and Endeavour Vision.
- Will Twitter choose Dublin as its new European headquarters? Twitter is seeking to establish its European headquarters in 2011, with Dublin and London both at the forefront contending for the potential arrival. According to a recent Forbes article by Parmy Olson, Twitter will favour settling in Dublin rather than London, and here’s why.
- Introducing Chirpstory, a tool that curates tweets into stories Chirpstory is essentially a Twitter curation tool that enables users to compile and share collections of tweets on specific topics. The tool allows curators to easily pick and choose tweets to include on a particular topic, and to build a continuous, coherent narrative from these.
- Which Irish political party has the most influence on Twitter? Which Irish political party has the most influence on Twitter? According to social media influence calculator Klout, republican party Sinn Féin has the most influence online with a Klout score of 59.
- Twitter sentiment towards Brian Cowen – 88% negative Although this figure may come as no surprise to most but almost 9 out of 10 tweets concerning our incumbent Taoiseach Brian Cowen are negative in nature according to TweetFeel. TweetFeel is a service that combines real-time Twitter search with sentiment detection algorithms to determine whether a tweet is positive or negative.
- Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.2 update begins roll out A recent tweet from Samsung UK Mobile has announced the roll out of Android 2.2 to Samsung Galaxy S devices. The update was originally planned for mid-October but had been delayed until now.
- Students use Twitter to report on the #studentmarch As the #studentmarch in Dublin today turned violent, news reports from citizen journalists at the protest came flooding in on Twitter. This is one of those occasions that Twitter, as a live blogging tool, becomes extremely useful.
- Twitter to announce “Promoted Accounts” later today If reports surfacing in the last 24 hours are true, Twitter is about to launch another monetization feature - “Promoted Accounts”.