Tag: twitter

Twitter is enabling pop stars and superstar DJs alike to be more generous.

Justin Timberlake's not just a pretty face and a swift pair of dancing feet - he's also a pretty shrewd investor, having previously put money into Tapulous, maker of iPhone applications such as Tap Tap Revenge.

The great thing about Twitter for companies is it lets you engage directly with your customers. The bad thing about Twitter for companies is... it lets you engage directly with your customers!

Live friend-streams are all the rage in the Web 2.0 world at the moment, from Twitter to Facebook to FriendFeed.

Big Champagne has compiled a list of the most popular music artists on Twitter, headed by Britney Spears with 995,807 followers at the point the chart was compiled. Which should be some consolation to Britney for losing out...

US firm Zooz Mobile has announced that its iPhone music apps have been downloaded more than a million times since being made available on the App Store last November.

We wrote last week about Twitter's rapid growth in the last couple of months, but April looks set to be another bumper one, with the micro-blogging site likely to double its traffic again.

Start the week with some Web 2.0 jargon courtesy of blog Digipendent, which has a piece on how to make your band successful online.

Author Andrew Keen has been causing controversy for some time with his outspoken views - last year he was attacking the "cult of the amateur" in relation to user generated content.

After mounting media excitement in the last few days, actor Ashton Kutcher has become the first Twitter user to rack up one million followers, beating CNN and Britney Spears to the milestone.

TechCrunch has been digging into the Google Trends charts of most-searched-for keywords, and has announced that "Twitter" is now a more popular search term than "Britney", and has even overtaken "Obama".

The Streets mainman Mike Skinner is the latest artist to use his Twitter feed as a distribution mechanism for music