Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2009

The Twoddler is a Twitter interface for toddlers















Let’s face it: for the most part, you don’t even really care “What’s happening?” on Twitter in the lives of your closest friends. 140 characters doesn’t really give a lot of room for strong opining, philosophical reverie or deep musing. It is, mostly, a perfect length to allow people to express their love for their cats, their annoyance with “haters,” their expression of annoyance at a stray sock, and other bovine and contentless utterances.

But you know who Twitter would be perfect for? A demographic that does nothing but make bovine and contentless utterances! So it’s worth noting, at least to laugh, that a team in Belgium has developed a new way for gummy, drooling neonates to use Twitter.
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search


Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.

Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics.

Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. had earlier announced plans to incorporate Twitter messages into search results, but Yahoo said it will be the first among them to include such "tweets" on its main search results.
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