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Twitter’s Discover tab makes its way to your inbox

2 days ago by Darren McCarra
Twitter's weekly email digest

Twitter’s recently updated Discover tab is making its way to your inbox in the coming weeks by way of a weekly email digest, Twitter revealed on its official blog earlier this evening.

Diaspora joins Y Combinator, may launch after summer

3 days ago by Darren McCarra
Max Salzberg, one of four Diaspora founders

Diaspora, an alternative privacy-centric social network still in private beta, has reportedly joined startup accelerator programme Y Combinator and hopes to eventually launch sometime after this summer.

Twitter’s retro design still lives – here’s how to get it (again)

1 week ago by Piers Dillon Scott
Classic Twitter design

Do you miss the old-look Twitter? Well, use this simple trick to see what your Twitter profile looked like back in the olden days of 2011!

Meet the 2012 Social Media Awards finalists

1 week ago by Darren McCarra
Very important #sockies people

The finalists of the 2012 Bord Gáis Energy Social Media Awards have been announced, with companies like Dublin Zoo, Vodafone Ireland and Today FM among those shortlisted.

Google+ Hangouts On Air comes out of beta, read this terms of service caveat

1 week ago by Darren McCarra
Google+ Hangouts On Air

As well as bringing Hangouts On Air out of beta earlier today, Google also took the time to append its Google+ Policies and Principles section with some interesting additions, placing responsibility for all content included in a Hangout solely on the person who initiated it.

StumbleUpon reaches 25 million users, plans to localise in Europe

2 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
StumbleUpon party

Content discovery engine StumbleUpon reached 25 million registered users this week, growing from 5.5 million just three years ago, according to CEO Garrett Camp who spoke to TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha.

Google+ gets a share button

3 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Google +1 button

Google+ has just rolled-out a dedicated embeddable share button that Google hopes will encourage users to post more content to its developing social layer.

StumbleUpon upgrades Facebook Timeline app to include frictionless sharing

4 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
StumbleUpon's new Timeline app

StumbleUpon has become the latest service to enable Facebook frictionless sharing via an update to its Facebook app. Now, Stumblers can decide to share all their StumbleUpon activity seamlessly to Facebook Timeline.

A creative Twitter campaign that’s really Smart

5 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Smart car

It’s great to see social media innovation among companies and especially so within the perceived limitations of Twitter’s 140 characters.

Instagram’s zero to $1 billion valuation within 19 months [Infographic]

5 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Instagram is acquired by Facebook for $1 billion

Instagram has always been a stand-out app ever since it first launched on the iPhone in October 2010. Some 19 months later, however, who’d have thought it would be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion?

How much is a single tweet or Facebook status update worth?

5 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Credit: Ildar Sagdejev via Wikimedia Commons

Every time you tweet, post a Facebook status update or pin something on Pinterest, you help contribute to that respective company’s revenue. But just how much? Is it possible to express, in terms of revenue, the value of a single tweet, for example?

Pinterest is already fourth largest social network

5 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Pinterest graphic

Pinterest may have already become the fourth largest social network in the United States despite being less than two years old. Data from both Alexa, a web statistics firm, and DoubleClick Ad Planner suggests it has.

What to expect from the 2012 Social Media Awards

7 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Radio DJ Rick O'Shea, organiser Damien Mulley and Eoin O’Súilleabháin, social media manager at Bord Gáis

After last year’s successful inaugural event, the 2012 Social Media Awards are due to be held in Dublin’s Mansion House on May 17, recognising Irish businesses and organisations that approach social media with innovation.

Pinterest: We don’t want to sell your images, never have

7 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott
Pinteresting

Pinterest changes its Terms of Service, saying it was never its intention to sell the images users pinned on the site.

Forget to logout of Facebook recently? Here’s how to end old sessions remotely

8 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Facebook security

It’s happened all of us. At one point or another you’ll use Facebook on a friend’s computer or smartphone, or at an internet café, and forget to logout. Here’s how to end old Facebook sessions remotely and avoid those embarrassing frapes.

Céad míle fáilte Twitter, welcome to Dublin

8 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott
twitter dublin

As Ireland celebrates St. Patrick’s Day Twitter’s Ireland staff set up the company’s office in Dublin.

Twitter account will live-tweet story of Titanic on 100th anniversary

9 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Titanic

Next month marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic – then the world’s largest passenger ship. To commemorate, a new Twitter account will ‘live’-tweet her disastrous maiden journey, narrated in first-person as if coming directly from those involved.

Twitter’s Dublin office & self-service ads platform take a step closer

9 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott
Twitter - open for business

Twitter Ireland’s Online Sales and Operations Director, Stephen McIntyre, hints at the full launch of the company’s Dublin offices, more jobs

Rick Santorum sets new 2012 Election Twitter record on Super Tuesday

10 weeks ago by Darren McCarra
Romney family epic misspell fail

Rick Santorum, second place candidate in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries set a new 2012 Election Twitter record with almost 40,000 tweets referencing him between 6pm and 7pm PT, yesterday, Super Tuesday.

How to create Twitter RSS feeds for audio, podcast & music content

11 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott
Twitter audio content

How to create Twitter RSS feeds for the audio, music & podcast content being shared on the social network from sites like Spotify & iTunes