twhirl, a desktop client for Twitter & Friendfeed, has been updated. It looks like it’s moving in the direction of becoming a general social networking client. According to it the official announcement: We took our time to make Friendfeed a lot more usable and add a few very nice features, including rooms support for Friendfeed, […]

Alison and Lloyd of technology makeover show My Home 2.0 perform some innovative surgery on an old teddy bear. The result: a teddy bear that reads your Twitter feed. The Twittering Teddy also has a UStream channel, so you can tweet about something and then go watch a creepy animatronic teddy bear speak it on […]

Yesterday’s Steve Jobs keynote was a bust: he announced what people already knew he was going to announce, but little more. And the only real surprise was that Apple’s iPhone “price cut” was really a price hike, buried in your monthly AT&T bill. The biggest surprise of the day turned out to be that Twitter […]

There’s a lot of rampant speculation going on about Apple‘s WWDC announcements tomorrow. The biggest question, though, may be whether or not Twitter will go down because of the traffic during Steve Jobs’ keynote. Over the last year, Twitter has become a love/hate relationship for most users. The site has the worst uptime of all […]

Social messaging/microblogging site Twitter today addressed some of the most frequently asked questions about the site’s infrastructure, frequent downtime and what the company is doing about it. One of the most interesting comments they have is that Twitter power users are responsible for the site’s downtime: The events that hit our system the hardest are […]

The Phoenix Mars Lander has a Twitter feed, and as Evil Mad Scientist notes, the Mars Lander is Twittering in the first person: I’m sitting on very flat surface here. Tiny rocks around my foot pads. The horizon is flat and looks perfect for digging!!! It’s unclear if this is an official feed or not; […]

Think text-messaging plans for mobile phones are a scam? A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones costs more than sending data via the Hubble Space Telescope. He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the cost of […]

We’re fans of Twitter (podcastmama & podcasting_news), but have been surprised by the site’s frequent downtime. Turns out there’s legitimate reason for concern: Twitter has the worst uptime of all the major social networks. Availability monitoring company Pingdom.com released availability stats for the major social networks today, and Twitter comes out in last place: Social […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Michael Baron has announced that he’s auctioning off his Twitter account: Baron is effectively wanting to monetize the attention that his Twitter account receives. Per the eBay auction: The winner of this auction gets my account with all of my followers. The account is in my name now, but the winner of […]

Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur, who’s got to be the A-1 top of the food chain numero uno most charismatic French new media entrepreneur ever, announced today that his company had acquired Twhirl, a Twitter client. Not just any Twitter client, though – le plus grand Twitter client. Seesmic is a video blogging and conversation […]