Video search engine VideoSurf launched a Firefox add-on today called "Videos at a Glance," which can show Twitter users the videos behind applicable links. For example, if someone in your Twitter stream posts a link to a video, the add-on will automatically display the video, as well as a visual video summary, right in the tweet, so you don’t have to click through.
Twitter Goes Down, No Cute Whale to Soften the Blow
Update: Twitter is back up and running. The Twitter Status blog informs us that Twitter has fallen victim to an ongoing Denial-of-Service attack:
The Growth of Twitter and Facebook Use By Age Demographic
As I noted in my last article about the subtle shifts happening within MySpace, social network audience demographics are always on the move.
The Use Of Twitter By The Teen Demographic
Yeah, yeah, yeah—I’m sure we can all name some anecdotal evidence of teens who either hate Twitter or who can’t get off it. But by and large, according to a new Nielsen report, teens just aren’t on Twitter.
Or are they? The chart from the report looks at users on Twitter.com (as opposed to on phones or desktop clients):
New Twitter Book Written from the User’s Perspective
There is a new Twitter book out called All a Twitter. It was written by Tee Morris, author of Podcasting for Dummies. It comes with a foreword by social media guru Chris Brogan and a dedication to Jon Stewart of the Daily Show.
"Social Media has the potential of increasing your presence, both from a commercial and from a personal perspective, on the global stage," says Morris. "With All a Twitter, I bring several years of tweets and observations on Twitter’s growth, evolution, and reinvention."
Twitter Most Linked to Social Site in Email Marketing
According to Email Data Source, Twitter has become the most linked to social media outlet in email marketing campaigns. Email Data Source collects, analyzes, organizes, and archives millions of marketing messages to provide competitive intelligence and analytics to the email marketing community.
Breaking Down Twitter’s New Homepage
On Tuesday, we told you about the launch of Twitter’s new homepage. The revamped design sports a sleek look that is pretty easy on the eye. But, once you get past the pleasing aesthetics, you’ll also see that Twitter has added a search capability and popular topics, which in turn could mean an influx of Twitterers.
Twitter Quietly Takes Step Toward Security
Security firm F-Secure discovered that Twitter has begun blocking links to malicious sites when users try to post them. Twitter has not acknowledged this with an announcement yet, but users (at least some) are getting the following message when trying to post a link to a known malware site:
"Oops! Your tweet contained a URL to a known malware site!"
Twitter Launches New Homepage Design
This past Friday we told you about the new Twitter homepage that was just days away. Well, now @Biz has updated the Twitter blog informing us that the new design has been launched.
A Future of Googling for Twitter Results?
After checking out Bing’s explanation of how it handles reference searches, it got me thinking how big of a role Wikipedia plays in search. Wikipedia entries are often among the top results in Google, and clearly they are a big part of Bing’s strategy as well.