Prince Hits Twitter’s Vine App With Copyright Infringement Complaint
Twitter’s Vine app has been hit with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement complaint from NPG Records, the record label of musician Prince. The Next Web reported that NPG Records’ complaint states that eight video clips had “unauthorized records” and “unauthorized synchronizations” featuring his music and asked Vine to immediately remove them. Vine, which [...]
5 Most Justifiable Reasons To Hate Twitter This Week
My dislike-bordering-on-hate for Twitter has been well documented over my tenure at NMR. And, to be honest, a lot of it has to do with that fact that after years of steady tweeting, my followers just recently topped over 150. Sure, hurt feelings have a ton to do with the bitter taste the micro-blogging site [...]
Facebook To Adopt Twitter And Instagram’s Worst Feature — The Hashtag
The ole’ rumor mill is abuzz today with early reports that Facebook, the world’s #1 destination for farm simulators, is thinking about adopting the worst part of Twitter and Instagram. That’s right, the hashtag. Oh, how these rumors break my heart. Now, in addition to only seeing a fraction your friends’ posts due to promoted [...]
Twitter Adds Line Breaks To Tweets, Unveils New Windows 8 App
Twitter has just introduced line breaks so that users can separate their tweets into paragraphs if needed. This also means that if you want to retell that conversation with the police officer who pulled you over for those pesky brake lights, you can do so without sacrificing characters for space. Currently, the line breaks feature [...]
Twitter To Unveil Its Own Music Discovery App For Smartphones
In yet another step in Twitter’s development into a full-fledged media hub, the micro-blogging site is preparing to launch a music discovery and streaming app. CNET reported that Twitter acquired a music discovery service called We Are Hunted last year and is expected to rebrand it as the Twitter Music app. The new app will [...]
Pope Departs Vatican Via Helicopter Like A Damned Rockstar [VIDEO]
Pope Benedict XVI has left the building. In the fine tradition of rockstars and shamed presidents before him, Pope Benedict XVI resigned today from his papacy by exiting the Vatican in a sweet helicopter. His exit was so much like the end to “Predator” that it frightens me. Fortunately, someone posted the video [...]
The Onion Apologizes For Dropping ‘C-word’ in Oscar Tweet — Should They Have?
“On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars. It was crude and offensive — not to mention inconsistent with The Onion’s commitment to parody and satire, however biting.”And so begins [...]
Twitter Reduces Some Tweet Lengths From 140 to 117 (Still Enough for This Title — SCORE!)
Twitter has announced that as of today it will be making some tough cuts when it comes to sharing URLs by reducing the available space to 117 characters. That’s 23 less characters for Khloe Kardashian to yell at people for calling her fat and 23 less characters for Justin Bieber to defend his love of marijuana. [...]
Burger King’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked, Made Into A ‘Hood’ McDonald’s
If you happened to look at Burger King’s Twitter feed this morning, you might have wondered why you saw some golden arches. Unfortunately for McDonald’s rival, the fast food joint’s social media account fell victim to cyber attack, with the hackers replicating the look of McDonald’s right down to the “Fish McBites” promo on the [...]
Social Media Study Finds Youth, Black People Frequent Twitter and Instagram More
Which demographic group uses Twitter and Instagram the most? Which gender frequents Pinterest on a regular basis? These are some of the questions answered in the Pew Research Center’s “The Demographics of Social Media Users” 2012 report released on Thursday. The survey reports that social media is more popular than ever, with about 83 percent [...]
