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20 Extremely Useful Freeware Apps For Blogging - The Link Medic - Free Blogging Resources. Whether you use WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger in order to get the most out of your blog it helps to have some tools by your side.

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Twitter is aware of the problem and tells me it’s not a security issue — and that it’s working on getting it resolved. The solution apparently involves disabling #NewTwitter, which has lead to retro jokes galore on where else, Twitter. Twitter prepares for European expansion. Microblogging serviceTwitter is preparing to open its first office outside the United States, with company representatives meeting with London property agents last week, according to British newspaper The Telegraph.

Twitter Email Alerts - Tweet Scan. Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART] The Biggest Brands on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] Facebook started out as a way for friends to connect and interact online.

Yet, as the startup grew from a few thousand users at New England colleges to hundreds of millions around the world, it quickly became a place where businesses could interact more intimately with their customers. In the past few years, big brands have started taking social media seriously, and Facebook marketing is a big part of the plan for many companies. However, even big brands struggled to amass a Facebook following or extract value in the beginning. Coca-Cola, one of the world's most recognizable brands, for example, had 800 Facebook fans in November 2007.

It has 16.5 million now. Why Your Business Must Embrace the Foreign Language Internet. Christian Arno is founder of Lingo24, a global translation company specializing in website localization and optimization.

Christian has more than nine years experience working with some of the world’s biggest global brands. Additional research and writing by Paul Sawers from Lingo24. All signs point toward an increasingly multilingual future for the web. It’s estimated that over a billion people will be using PCs in the so-called BRIC countries alone by 2015, and the opportunity is even greater when you factor more people accessing the web using mobile devices than computers in many emerging markets. It’s time businesses of all sizes embraced the foreign language Internet. Foreign Languages on the Web. FriendShuffle. 71 Percent of Tweets Are Ignored. Most Tweets are ignored.

A study by market research company Sysomos reveals that 71 percent of tweets fall into the abyss, receiving no response at all. "When a tweet generates a reply (aka @) or a retweet (aka) RT, it suggests the tweet has resonated enough with someone that it sparks a conversation or encourages someone to share it with their followers," the company said on its Web site. Over the past two months, the company studied 1.2 billion tweets to compile its data. People might retweet or reply because they find the particular tweet poignant, funny, or important. But the study showed that only 6 percent of tweets are actually re-posted, meaning @replies comprise the remaining 21 percent. The small delegation of tweets that are actually being re-posted are happening in the first hour at a rate of 92 percent.

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism. At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.

They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress. Evan Williams: “Twitter Will Get to a Billion Members” Twitter Co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams shared the stage today in a rare joint appearance where they addressed criticism about Twitter's usefulness in activism, its impact on news and its overarching vision for the future.

The co-founders participated in a lively fireside chat moderated by Businessweek's Brad Stone at a sold-out event for the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The conversation started with a discussion about whether Twitter has become mainstream. Evan started by asking what "going mainstream" exactly meant, but he did say that Twitter gains more new user signups every week than the entire population of his home state of Nebraska. That's 1.8 million users per week. View Twitter Through Other People’s Eyes With TwtRoulette. Intrigued by the experience of viewing a friend’s Twitter timeline, angel investor Shervin Pishevar collaborated with 15 year-old iTunes Instant creator Stephen Ou to create Twtroulette.com after a week of work.