Jews can now 'tweet' their prayers to 'Twitter's Western Wall'July 24th, 2009 LONDON - Many who are unable to make it to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City can now have their prayers placed on the walls through an address on social networking site Twitter.com. The Western Wall now has its own address on the social networking service, and it allows believers around the globe to have their prayers placed between its 2,000 year-old-stones without leaving home.
Twitter allows supplicants to place a prayer at Jerusalem's Western Wall without leaving homeJuly 23rd, 2009 New service lets Jews tweet a prayer to GodJERUSALEM — For centuries, people have stuffed prayers written on scraps of paper into the ancient cracks in the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. In recent years they could fax or e-mail their prayers — and now they can tweet them, too.
Get Tweets on Your T-shirt for $20, Earn MoneyApril 17th, 2009 Twitterers, here is another news you will just love to know. Twitshirt brings you a service that lets you have your favorite twitter imprinted on a tee for $20.
How to Add Twitter to OrkutJanuary 21st, 2009 Twitter and Orkut have attracted millions of people in the world into social networking. To each, its own.
Classics from Dickens, Sallinger and Jane Austen to feature in Twitter!May 12th, 2009 LONDON - Classic literary works by Charles Dickens, JD Sallinger and Jane Austen are now being shortened into 140-character "tweets", as part of the latest diversion of the popular Twitter website. Bookish readers of the micro-blogging site are now boiling down such great works into a single sentence, and what is coming out is a whole new trend of 140 word synopses of some of the most classic novels.lthough the brevity of the summaries could appeal to modern readers more, the trend of using Internet slang might just offend literary purists.
Twitter acting as 'word-of-mouth publicity' mediumSeptember 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Twitter has become a rage, right from college students to celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, and researchers at Penn State University have now claimed that the micro-blogging site is also benefiting companies. Jim Jansen, associate professor of information science and technology, College of Information Science and Technology, Penn State, says that 20 percent of the tweets contain requests for product information or responses to the requests.
Whitehall's 20-page user guide to TwitterJuly 28th, 2009 LONDON - Ministers at the Whitehall, the administrative centre of the UK government, have been provided with a document spanning 20 pages on how to use popular microblogging website Twitter. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills created hitehall's first ever Twitter strategy as a tutorial to overnment departments to post tweets more regularly, reports The Independent.
Schedule Tweets by Three WaysMarch 25th, 2009 Well, twitter has already been phenomenally popular by its own merit. Most of the professionals, entrepreneurs and celebrities are tweeting it in at twitter.
Twitter outage clamps tweets, site says cause 'unknown'August 6th, 2009 Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown'NEW YORK — Twitter is down. For users of the short messaging site, this means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
Only 10pct of Twitter users do all the tweetingJune 6th, 2009 LONDON - A meagre 10 percent of total Twitter users post 90 per cent of all tweets on the micro-blogging website, reveals a Harvard Business School report. And it is the prolific Twitter users, like Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore, who account for the majority of tweets.
Microsoft Bings Twitter to SearchJuly 2nd, 2009 With Twitter's foray into mainstream media there has been a urge for real-time search and urgency of delivering topical data. Google and Facebook are working out significant changes on their search tools to fillip status updates.
MEA all a-Twitter with Shashi TharoorJune 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The ministry of external affairs is all a-Twitter. Not because Indian diplomats have become net savvy, but one of the new ministers of state is a frequent user of this social networking web tool.
Pay per Tweet: Get paid for tweeting June 6th, 2009 Remember pay per post? yeah right, the controversial ad initiative that used to pay bloggers to write about products almost as if promoting it. The news is, they are at Twitter now and wants to make a new business model of the same kind and has named it Pay Per Tweet.
1 in 10 Brit drivers use Twitter while drivingSeptember 10th, 2009 LONDON - British drivers are increasingly using micro-blogging site Twitter while they are behind the wheels, and are thus putting themselves and other in danger, says a new survey. The survey for online insurer, esure, found that almost one in 10 drivers were found to use mobile Internet services and social networks whilst driving, despite knowing that they were breaking the law.
10 awesome Twitter tricksJune 5th, 2009 Every Twitter users is looking for the ladder to boost his/her following. You might be one of them trying to increase your Twitter followers.