Tagged: Twitter
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You are the social media you’re using (infographic) News
03.04.2013 Nearly everyone is on one social medium or another these days, and just as dogs say a lot about their owners, so, too, does the social media an individual uses, according to a... -
Twitter hopes to play its cards right with new content and direct links to apps News
03.04.2013 So far, Twitter cards have been adopted by 10,000 developers, apps and websites, leading the network to create new varieties for different types of content and add deep-linking... -
Twitter for Business gets a new look to attract advertisers News
02.04.2013 Twitter announced the relaunch of its online resource for businesses using the social network yesterday (and no, it’s not an April fool’s joke). -
Viral videos of the week – 31/03/2013 News
31.03.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features a bumbling burglar, some eighties nostalgia, short ways to describe Ireland, Ron... -
Twitter to hit nearly US$1bn in ad revenues in 2014 - report News
27.03.2013 Microblogging site Twitter’s advertising revenues will more than double this year to nearly US$583m and next year they’ll hit almost US$1bn, eMarketer predicts in a new report. -
Nike Golf’s new Tiger Woods online ad draws criticism News
27.03.2013 Clever publicity or advertising fail? Social media users are lashing out at Nike Golf over its new ad featuring world No 1 golfer Tiger Woods and his own quote, “Winning takes... -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s photos from space capture cities before Earth Hour News
25.03.2013 Cmdr Chris Hadfield wasn’t able to photograph Earth Hour efforts from his vantage point aboard the International Space Station on Saturday as he had hoped, but instead he... -
Dublin Airport picks up a gong for its use of social media News
23.03.2013 Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) picked up the Communications Award at the 2013 Irish Logistics and Transport Awards this week. -
Twitter marks its seventh birthday with highlights video News
21.03.2013 Seven-year itch? Not for Twitter, which marks its seventh anniversary today with a video celebrating some of the notable moments on the microblogging site so far. -
Fans while away GTA V delay by sharing #GrandTheftAutoMemories on Twitter News
20.03.2013 Seeing as the next instalment of the Grand Theft Auto series won’t be arriving this spring as expected, fans of the game have taken to amusing themselves on Twitter by sharing...Categories: Social Media, Games/Entertainment -
Twitter succeeds in securing broad patent for message distribution platform News
20.03.2013 It’s official, Twitter is now a patented product and co-founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone are its named inventors. Despite the far-reaching terms of the patent, which was...Categories: Social Media, Intellectual Property -
Cloud player Zendesk’s European data centre goes live in Dublin News
20.03.2013 Cloud-based customer service software platform Zendesk’s European data centre in Dublin has been officially launched. The facility will employ 30 people.Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Hosting Services, Digital Business, Data Centre, CRM, CIO -
Pope Francis is tweeting - revives papal Twitter account News
20.03.2013 The papal Twitter account is back up and running after being mostly dormant after the resignation of Pope Benedict, and it now bears the name of the new pontiff: Pope Francis. -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield tweets photographs of Ireland from space on St Patrick’s Day News
19.03.2013 Cmdr Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has given Ireland special attention on St Patrick’s Day, tweeting out a greeting as... -
Career memes of the week: digital marketing News
19.03.2013 Traditional marketing roles are fading away while digital marketing is taking over, thanks to more and more social media channels in which to promote products or services. -
One-third of all page views in UK come from mobiles and tablets News
15.03.2013 Around 44.8m people in the UK used the internet in December 2012, up 5pc on last year and around a third of these accessed the web from mobile phones and tablet computers – an... -
Twitter introduces Windows 8 app, line breaks, allegedly working on music app News
14.03.2013 Busy bird Twitter is getting up to all sorts this week, releasing its app for Windows 8, introducing line breaks to tweets, and apparently working on a standalone music... -
Pope’s Twitter account re-emerges, tweets news of Pope Francis’ election News
14.03.2013 Shortly after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio delivered his first address as Pope Francis last night, the Vatican tweeted a message from the papal Twitter account for the first... -
Let’s get digital: experts discuss the impact of social media on our lives (video) News
13.03.2013 At last week’s International Women’s Day event in the RDS, Dublin, a panel of four female tech professionals and one "token" male discussed how digital technology – particularly...