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No matter what language you speak, much of what happens around the world isn’t in your language. Fortunately, Twitter and Google have teamed up to autotranslate tweets for you. If you aren’t already doing this, you will never look at Twitter the same way again, I promise you! Here’s how it works:
How to follow the REAL situation in #Egypt
Twitter Readers
How Twitter replaced my RSS reader
I used to subscribe to blogs via RSS through Bloglines, then Google Reader. Now, I don’t subscribe to them at all. Strangely, RSS readers have become an obsolete, thing of the past for me and I didn’t even realize it until recently. So, how has Twitter replaced my reader? I subscribe to people, not sites Subscribing to a site via RSS means that you subscribe to all of the content on that feed.
RSS is Dead, Long Live RSS
RSS is a wonderful technology that allows us to keep track of hundreds of websites without ever leaving our RSS reader, however, many of us have abandoned our bloated RSS subscriptions. I am one of you. For the past 3 years Google Reader has been my primary pipeline for discovering and reading the latest and greatest around the web but it has simply lost its usefulness the past 6 months. It’s value did not diminish due solely to the content but more so because I chose not to manage it well. I suffered from excessive unread counts and the feeling of never quite “catching up”.
<img src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/01/twwet_home.jpg" alt="" title="twwet_home" width="660" height="495" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22640" /> ANALYSIS: Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with its own version of it. Twitter beta-tested a spine.
Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard | Threat Level
Sigalon's Twitter Soup
Michelle Obama's Tuesday night speech about her husband and the Obama family at the Democratic National Convention drove 28,003 tweets-per-minute at its peak, nearly double the 14,289 mark reached by Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican convention last week. Obama's speech, intended to illustrate the differences between her husband and his Republican challenger, played well on Twitter. It had plenty of short, snackable lines easily packed into 140 characters or less. This tweet, fr... show all text <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>