Microsoft offers Twitter-style service in China
Microsoft has launched a microblog-style service in China based on Windows Live Messenger, expanding the social-networking functions linked to the chat software in a country where it is a hit.
Microsoft has launched a microblog-style service in China based on Windows Live Messenger, expanding the social-networking functions linked to the chat software in a country where it is a hit.
Salesforce.com opened up its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Wednesday by previewing Salesforce Chatter, a social-networking application the vendor dubbed a "Facebook for the Enterprise."
The use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote businesses has exploded over the past six months, according to the results of a study that were released today.
Twitter users should refrain from changing their log-in data until further notice or else risk getting locked out of their accounts.
After a database problem knocked out the accounts of about 150,000 Facebook users for more than a week, the social networking site said today that most are now back up and running.
A vast majority of Twitter users are mainly interested in ... well, themselves.
Facebook has been sued by a software company in Baltimore that claims the social-networking site is violating a two-year-old patent.
A new service designed to let Twitter users make short, tweet-like phone calls to one another begins its beta testing period today.
Facebook has passed the 300 million-member mark worldwide, as well as turned free cash-flow positive ahead of schedule, the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced Tuesday.
Companies can begin to target people over the age of 34 with media campaigns that leverage social networks as that age group has become the largest segment using Facebook, Twitter and other social media, a new study from Forrester Research claims.
Google has added a social-networking component to its iGoogle personalized home page service that will allow users to do things like share YouTube videos, play Scrabble and maintain joint to-do lists.
The British government is leaping headlong onto the Twitter bandwagon.
Facebook has started to test a new version of its Publisher, the tool that members can use to post notes, status updates, links, photos, videos and other content on their profile "wall" and share them with their friends.
Network maintenance that would have put Twitter offline for as long as 90 minutes late Monday has been postponed due to the importance the microblogging service is currently playing in Iran.
This past weekend, something strange happened in the U.S. media landscape: Twitter helped shape coverage of the Iranian elections protests.
Social networking site Facebook has been blocked in Iran since Saturday, according to the country's opposition, as opposition voters increasingly turn to online tools like social networking to promote their candidates.
Flock has released a new version of its social browser that improves its links to social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
MySpace developers can now make their applications available for testing to anyone who is on their list of friends at the social-networking site.
A NASA astronaut is hoping to Twitter from space when he flies on the space shuttle Atlantis next month on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
External developers' applications can now access a wider range of information posted by Facebook members on the social-networking site.