SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and Twitter launched applications for Google glasses as developers rushed to learn more about tailoring software for the Internet-linked eyewear yet to hit the market.“Built by Facebook, this app allows you to upload photos from Google Glass directly to your Facebook ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Thursday launched a music service that recommends tunes based on what people are 'tweeting' about and lets people sample songs they might like."We're releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter," the San ...

LAHORE (PR) – Mobilink has launched ‘Twitter Zero’ as means of enhancing the benefits of mobile internet services for its subscribers. This service is launched free of any internet changes for mobile internet users using mobile.twitter.com through their native internet browser or ...

VATICAN CITY  - Pope Francis’ online flock has doubled from 2.5m to 5.0m Twitter followers in just seven weeks - nearly half the time it took his predecessor Benedict XVI to build up his following. The account @pontifex - the word “pope” in Latin - has tweets in nine ...

PARIS - YouTube is shutting down, Twitter users have to pay for the use of vowels, and the new Google Nose search engine will bring a whiff of wet dog or daisies right to your computer or smartphone.Smells fishy? These Internet giants went all-out to try and bamboozle their users with April Fool's ...

SAN FRANCISCO  - Twitter on Thursday launched Vine, a service that lets people share video snippets from iPhones or iPod touch devices. Perpetually looping videos clips up to six seconds each can be shared using Vine or easily embedded in “tweets” fired off at the globally popular ...

WASHINGTON  - Nani Teruya does not vote because she believes the United States is illegally occupying her home state of Hawaii, but people are trying to convince her to go to the polls next week via Google+ and Twitter.She is one of six non-voters taking part in a CNN project that uses social ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Twitter unveiled a new “Twitterbird” Wednesday which will be the new trademark symbol for the fast-growing company.“Over the past six years, the world has become familiar with a little blue bird. The bird is everywhere, constantly associated with Twitter the ...

One of the biggest micro social website twitter’s website was suspended across the Pakistan, PTA announced on Sunday. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked twitter.com following the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) caricatures controversy. Zonal Directors have instructed all ISPs in ...

SYDNEY  - Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has alerted police to an online stalker — a “deluded weirdo” issuing threats over Twitter, she wrote on the micro-blogging site on Tuesday. The diminutive singer told her more than one million followers on the site that she adored ...

Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility is likely to raise fears that Twitter’s commitment to free speech may be weakening.It comes as the short-messaging company expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden ...

LOS ANGELES  - Celebrities may want to resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the new year after so many of them tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011.NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne became the latest celebrity to blunder on ...

The Twitter account of the Hollywood and TV actor, Alec Baldwin, has been deactivated. Mr Baldwin had been a prolific tweeter and made headlines this week after writing that he had been kicked off an American Airlines plane for playing a game on his mobile phone. The airline responded on Facebook ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook and Twitter on Thursday will meet with riot-spooked British officials to discuss how social networks can play roles in keeping people safe during civil unrest. The focus of a lunchtime meeting with the British Home Secretary has shifted from the notion of blocking ...

DUNCAN Bannatyne, the Dragons Den star, has offered a 50,000 reward to Twitter users for the capture of a blackmailer who allegedly threatened to harm his daughter. The Scottish entrepreneur reacted furiously to demands from a Twitter user demanding 35,000 to prevent his daughter Hollie, 25, being ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced Tuesday he was scaling back his involvement in the micro-blogging company to concentrate on a new venture. The 37-year-old said in a post on his personal blog that he was relaunching The Obvious Corporation, the company that spawned Twitter, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Twitter on Tuesday broadened its reach by letting websites add Follow buttons that visitors can click to begin tracking posts at the globally popular microblogging service. Twitter billed the button as a new way to follow Twitter accounts directly from the websites you visit ...

TWITTER is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire TweetDeck, the popular computer application used by Twitter users, in a deal worth around $50m (31m). The rumour, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, indicates that Ian Dodsworth, the British founder of TweetDeck, is close to reaching an ...

The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show. The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details. ...

MORE than 10 billion messages have been sent through Twitter since the microblogging service launched in 2006. The milestone, which was reached Wednesday night, underlines Twitters meteoric growth and increasing popular appeal. In November 2008, it broke the billion tweets mark, and reached five ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter has been kind to a motley crew of actors, TV personalities and pop stars whose fame online outstrips that of the outside world. And its all about getting personal. Ashton Kutcher is the most popular user with more than 3 million Twitter followers, and LeVar Burton of ...

RANIA Al Abdullah already has a channel on YouTube, and has now signed up to the microblogging service. The royal, who uses the Twitter handle QueenRania, is following 23 people, including chef Jamie Oliver, Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of ...