The brief, if good, has a prize. That is the philosophy of the Shorty Awards, dubbed the "Oscars of the Internet", which reward good practices in communication through the microblogging network Twitter. We already know the winners of the 2011 edition.
Twitter celebrates its fifth birthday. Did you know that the time that elapsed from the first 'tweet' to the 'tweet' 1 billion was 3 years, 2 months and a day? On the anniversary of the popular microblogging platform we gathered ten figures that you are interested in knowing.
A study from Indiana University shows that, on Twitter, the general happiness or Subjective Well-being (SWB) of users determines who they relate to. The happiest tend to 'retweet' other people who share that same happiness.
Twitter has announced through its blog that it has just taken an important step to make it easier to manage security during access to the platform. This is an option that allows you to use the HTTPS protocol whenever you access Twitter, particularly important when using Twitter over an unsecured WiFi connection.
The search engine Google has just announced the integration of a package of social widgets such as Twitter, Flickr and Quora in its search engine. In this way, it updates its Social Search tool, which was born in 2009 and integrated the search results of the user's contacts at the bottom of each page.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (USA) have found within the neocortex of the brain a subnet of highly active neurons that behave in a similar way to the most active members of a social network such as Facebook, according to 'Neuron'.
This year, more than 13 million hours of video have been uploaded to YouTube, which is equivalent to approximately 1,500 years, and more than 700 billion videos have been viewed on the platform. In Spain, La Niña Repelente and Pocoyo are the big winners.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the most tweeted topic in 2010, followed by the World Cup in South Africa, the movie Origen (Inception) and the Haiti Earthquake. Also in the top ten made public today by Twitter are Apple's iPad tablet (6) and the late Octopus Paul (10).
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
