According to Ryan King, a software engineer at Twitter, the MySQL database used in Twitter is going to be replaced by the open source Cassandra data management system. Cassandra is a new types of data handling systems that are powering large Web applications, particularly social networking sites which deal with hundreds of thousands or millions [...]

Twitter has started adopting ways that will help users to discover their friends and colleagues who are already on Twitter but may not be connected with each other.

With Twitter use exploding at an unimaginable rate, it has created a lot of problems not only with Twitter’s service but also with the users using the service. There has been numerous cases of phishing attacks on Twitter and user accounts getting hacked as a result of this. As tweets are limited to only 140 [...]

Following the footsteps of Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has announced that tweets from Twitter users into its search engine. Most of the features will be available by the year’s end although Yahoo has already rolled out a few Twitter-integrated features. Yahoo is counting on the Twitter partnership to transform itself into a highly customizable social [...]

Guess what ? His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet has joined the world’s favorite micro-blogging website – Twitter. He, Tenzin Gyatso, (born: Lhamo Thondup) is the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharamshala, India.  Tibetans traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his predecessors.

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A phishing attack, which some are calling as BZPharma Phishing Attack, has hit Twitter this weekend. The attack is designed to steal username and password of unsuspecting Twitter user. It is spread through direct message from a compromised account.
Messages include – “Lol. this is me??“, “lol , this is funny.”, “ha ha, u look funny [...]

Amidst all your busy work schedule, it gets really tough to keep up with all the latest scores and updates from your favourite sporting events and matches. Going through various websites and news channels for the updates will only consume time out of your schedule. This is where SportSpotter comes to your rescue. We have [...]

Twitter’s trending topic has become a source of real-time news around the world, although there is the occasional blip. However, the thing with the trending topic has always been that only news relevant worldwide makes it there. It is not very useful if you want to know what people in your country or maybe city [...]

This is an update to our article titled “Twitter Kills Johnny Depp! [Not really]“.
In our earlier post about the Johnny Depp death hoax in twitter, we mentioned that the hoax probably started due to a fake “CNN” page about the news hosted in Angelfire. After the news, Lycos, Inc., which owns Angelfire, contacted us and [...]

Update: Lycos, Inc., which owns Angelfire, has removed the fake CNN page.
Well, Twitter did not literally kill Johnny Depp. But if you were to go with the Twitter trending topic, you would be led to believe that he is really dead. Sources say that Johnny Depp is well and certainly not dead and that the [...]

Twitter has now brought the real time tweet updates feature to the user’s home page. From now on you will be able to see a notification about the new number of tweets that may have arrived from your peers. For all those who do not know, this feature has already existed on Twitter search.
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If you still are among one of those who have not received an invite for the Google Wave, read through this guide for getting one. All you need is a twitter account.

Peek is launching a device for Twitter called, TwitterPeek. For $15/month, Peek is offering a QWERTY device that, well, tweets, sends and recieves  SMS and emails.
Here are some pictures of the device:

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Just hours after Microsoft announced that Bing will be able to search through Twitter’s real time updates, Google, too, has announced that Twitter updates will now be available with Google Search too.
Here is what Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience at Google wrote in the Google Blog:
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After we brought you the list of Microsoft’s, Skype’s and Google’s official twitter accounts, we now bring you the list of Apple’s official twitter accounts. Although these twitter accounts do not update anything about the software or latest development plans from Apple but you may still follow them for updates from their Apple Music Store [...]

After we brought you the list of Microsoft’s and Google’s official twitter accounts, we now bring you the list of Skype’s official twitter accounts. You may start following all or one of these accounts in order to get updates, tips and insight from the Skype team directly. 
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In this article we will tell you about 6 websites where you can find awesome and beautiful twitter backgrounds all for free.

Who would have ever guessed that Miley Cyrus, the star from Disney’s show Hannah Montana, would be the subject of discussion in any website other than some celebrity gossip sites? Well, surprise, surprise, I have been been seeing post about Miley from the most unexpected sources (read the tech blogs) after she deleted her twitter [...]

Twitter guys will soon be coming out with a new impressive feature called ‘Lists’. This feature will allow users to group various Twitter accounts, by creating their own ‘Lists’. Users will then be able to keep track of these ‘Lists’ as well as manage them. For example, you can create and manage lists of [...]

In this article we will tell how to use the new FeedDemon as a Twitter client.

We had told you earlier about the new MySpace Twitter sync that lets you send your MySpace updates to Twitter and vice-versa. But this feature is available only to U.S. users. In this article we will tell you a short trick so that anyone outside the US can also use this sync feature to sync [...]

A step-by-step guide to sync your MySpace updates with your Twitter account and the other way round.

Twitter has already become a phenomena. Almost all celebrities and business hot-shots are  on twitter. Everyone now understands the power of twitter and how effective a platform it is when it comes to conveying a message to the masses. To harness this power of twitter, all famous MBA colleges (B-Schools) in India have joined Twitter.
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In this article, we present to you, 10 screenlets which we have picked to be the best for any linux system.