Gogobot, a Menlo Park, Calif,-based startup that culls travel recommendations from users’ online social networks, said Thursday it has integrated its service with Chicago-based Orbitz and four other booking sites. Get the full story »
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Gottfried, ex-Aflac voice, apologizes for tweets
Gilbert Gottfried with the Aflac duck. (AP)
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried apologized Tuesday for a series of jokes made on Twitter about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, comments which got him fired as the voice of insurer Aflac.
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried apologized Tuesday for a series of jokes made on Twitter about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, comments which got him fired as the voice of insurer Aflac. Get the full story »
Pew: 8% of U.S. adults on Internet use Twitter
About 8% of American adults who use the Internet are Twitter users, with 2% using it on a typical day. The survey found that Twitter is particularly popular with young adults, minorities and those who live in cities.
July 29, 2010 at 10:20 a.m.
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Filed under: Advertising/Marketing, Internet, Media, Telecommunications Guy who saved Comcast via Twitter leaves for Citi
Goodbye, Comcast Twitter guy.
Frank Eliason, the social-media apostle who responded to tens of thousands of online Comcast Corp. customer complaints in the last two years, is leaving the cable company to help banking giant Citigroup Inc. connect with customers online. Get the full story »
LeBron James makes decision to join…Twitter?
LeBron James made a mid-afternoon arrival Tuesday at his annual skills academy at the University of Akron, while speculation swirled about his future and that of fellow free agent Chris Bosh. The biggest James news of the day, however, was that he is now on Twitter, with a confirmed moniker: @kingjames. His first tweet? “Hello World, the Real King James is in the Building ‘Finally’. My Brother @oneandonlycp3 gas’d me up to jump on board so I’m here. Haaaa”
Twitter uses ‘Toy Story 3′ to test new feature
Twitter is testing a new potential money-making feature: Promoted Trends. The first promotion is “Toy Story 3″ from Disney’s Pixar.
Twitter, which allows advertisers to insert messages into users’ streams through a program called Promoted Tweets, is also exploring the idea of selling its trending feature, which highlights topics popular with its users.
The concept is simple: Advertisers insert their own trend to display on users’ home pages. A big yellow box alerts users that the topic is promoted, not organic. If you click on the link, it takes you to a search results page to see what people are saying about the film. Get the full story »
BP pressure leads Twitter to label satirical account
From Geekosystem.com | The parody Twitter account @BPGlobalPR has changed its biography on its page, after BP requested that Twitter enforce its policy on parody/impersonation. The satirical account’s bio now reads, “We are not associated with Beyond Petroleum, the company that has been destroying the Gulf of Mexico for 51 days.” Get the full story: geekosystem.com.
Twitter tests out t.co, a new shortened URL service
By Jessica Guynn
| First Twitter shortened how we communicate, muzzling
the long-winded on its popular Web service. Now it’s cutting down on all
those extra characters in our URLs, too.
As Twitter put it: “Length shouldn’t matter.” At least when it comes to
Web links.
Twitter is testing internally a new service called t.co that will be
available to all users this summer. It will automatically shorten links,
the San Francisco company announced on its blog Tuesday.
‘Silent Bob’s’ barrage squeezes airlines on obesity
By Julie Johnsson | Director Kevin Smith’s Twitter-fit during the weekend highlights one uncomfortable reality of U.S. airline flying: airlines have less leeway to accommodate obese passengers at a time when Americans are getting fatter.
Kevin Smith at the Chicago Film Festival
in 2008. (Nuccio DiNuzzo) >>
In a barrage of profane tweets and a podcast, Smith expressed outrage that he was bumped from a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank, Calif., after the crew determined he was too large to fit in a single seat.
