Tag: twitter

Following several high-profile examples of 'fake' celebrities on Twitter - culminating in a lawsuit from baseball manager Tony La Russa this month - Twitter has launched a ''Verified Accounts'' program in beta, which will...

New research in the Harvard Business Review focuses on Twitter, based on a survey of 300,000 Twitter accounts.

Handset maker INQ Mobile has announced plans to launch a phone based around Twitter in time for Christmas, following its popular Facebook phone that's sold by 3 in the UK.

We've all done it, right? Oh. Well, thankfully Edelman Digital's Steve Rubel has done it for us - laid out the possible futures for Twitter in mind-map form.

Here's more evidence to support our view that Twitter in itself isn't a revolution in music marketing in itself - but just a tool for clever artists and labels to make the most of.

Now the company has launched a Twitter music chart, tracking tweets about music on the micro-blogging site, and analysing them to produce a chart of the most popular.

Twitter is many things to many people, but we have to admit we never had it pegged down as a new file-sharing tool. However, two new services make it just that: FileTwt and SongTwit.Both are as simple to use as Twitter itself.

On the face of it, new game Spymaster has nothing to do with music. It's a web game where you have to become a top spy, assassinating other players, embezzling money and buying black-market goods.

No, really. We'll let Hollywood trade mag Variety fill you in: "The San Francisco-based web phenom has partnered with Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment to develop an unscripted TV skein described as ''putting ordinary...

We've written a lot about file-hosting services like Rapidshare and darknets being the new face of illegal file-sharing, but now it seems Twitter may have a role to play too.

We've been loving the Twitter feed of UK DJ Tim Westwood for some time now, it's genius. But we're equally impressed with how Detroit legend Richie Hawtin is using Twitter.

If you've not seen Blip.fm, it's usually summarised as a Twitter for music, complete with its tagline of ''What are you listening to?''.