Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

140 characters that change the world

Web November 11th, 2011

140 characters—that seems to be quite a limit for publishing a story. Yet, Twitter has changed how people communicate. Twitter Stories is a fine example for just that.

Source: LiveSide.net Twitter will be reconnected to Windows Live

Windows Live July 4th, 2011

The micro-blogging service Twitter will make its comeback to Windows Live within 2011. This is what the developer beta for Windows Phone Codename “Mango” indicates.

Twitter is launching their own photo service

Networking May 31st, 2011

The micro-blogging platform Twitter is going to launch their own photo sharing service. The new service is going to compete with the existing TwitPic and Yfrog services that have established over the recent years.

Egypt is back on the Web

Web February 3rd, 2011

After five days, Egypt is partially back online: According to multiple sources, Web access works in the capital Cairo as well as in Alexandria. Obviously, Twitter and social networks are still blocked and can only be used with workarounds.

Unveiling mynetx.net’s new logo

Appearance December 16th, 2010

This has been a year full of new logos. We have seen updated logos for Hotmail, Messenger, all the Essentials applications, and more sites and apps this year. Lastly, I’m also unveiling the new logo for mynetx.net.

Twitter is forced to enhance data privacy

Networking June 26th, 2010

After investigation of several incidents, the U.S. trade authority FTC is forcing the micro-blogging service Twitter to apply better security standards.

World Cup puts serious load on Twitter

Networking June 20th, 2010

Recently the popular social network Twitter has technical problems in their systems. Twitter has seen the need to implement updates in order to be able to cope successfully with the recently increased load.

Windows Live ID outage: Even MS servers are not perfect

Windows Live February 17th, 2010

There has been an outage affecting customers of Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail. It lasted about one hour; people could not sign in using Windows Live ID during this time.

Source: wdr.de This Week’s Thoughts: Disconnecting from Social Networks

Networking, This Week’s Thoughts February 12th, 2010

More and more people register with social networks, like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and many more. Registering is really easy – but if you want to unregister afterwards, that can get complicated. It is not that simple to say good-bye to the social networks.

ICQ 7 Integrates Social Networks

Networking January 20th, 2010

ICQ has released version 7 of its messenger client for Windows. The combination of Instant Messaging and Social Networking results in “Social Messaging,” ICQ stated.