Category Archives: Twitter

2007-2017: hashtags turn 10 (and the social world badly needed them!)

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Stefano

Hashtags turn 10 years old (and counting)! August 23rd 2007: Chris Messina suggests the use of hash character just as in IRC in this tweet: how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? — … Continue reading →

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How to play vintage MS-DOS games embedded into tweets!

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Stefano

What about a nice ol’ MS-DOS game? The awesome Archive.org vintage gaming library plus Twitter comes in quite handy! Embedding DOSBox-based, old school MS-DOS games has never been so easy: create a new tweet and copy the link to your … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates’ letter celebrating Microsoft 40th anniversary

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Stefano

This is awesome! The real letter that Bill Gates sent to Microsoft employees for the company’s 40th anniversary. The Verge reports: Gates sent the following letter to Microsoft employees today to celebrate the company’s 40th anniversary. The letter was posted … Continue reading →

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WordPress blog users get Twitter official plugin

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Stefano

Oh, well… it’s about time! Twitter announced their very own Twitter plug-in for WordPress blogs that makes it easier to embed tweets, optimize your posts and content to Twitter-dome and – quite cool – integrate with Twitter Analytics (yes, that … Continue reading →

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Apple’s #BendGate has sparkled several bright marketing and fun ideas!

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Stefano

Ok, there’s too much hype about the recent iPhone 6+ #BendGate: supposedly, some iPhone 6+ early users reported bending and/or cracking of the brand new giant iPhone. Be it true or not (too much speculations and little investigation), the #BendGate, … Continue reading →

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How much economic value & wealth do tech companies build in a second?

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Stefano

The answer to this question come from a dynamic infographics from WorldPayZinc (a mobile payments company) that show in a very appealing and smart way how much does a tech giant (check your favorite) does revenues and profits in a … Continue reading →

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The age of publishers not journalists (at least on Twitter)

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Stefano

Here’s a post (and then some replies) that will sparkle a lot of flames about news, media and social networks. Who does drive more traffic to news sites? Facebook or Twitter? Journalists seem to love Twitter but Facebook drives more … Continue reading →

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10 digital marketing key data about 2013 that will be useful in 2014

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Stefano

From SmartInsights come 10 statistics that show key trends in digital marketing, 10 key questions, 10 quick answers and some more to think about. Here’s my pick of three. Which social networks should we focus on? Which social networks encourage … Continue reading →

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April Fools’ #3: Twitter will cost $5 per month, if you use vowels!

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Stefano

Ok, this is great! According to Twitter, you’llmhave to pay $5/month to be able to tweet with all alphabet letters, otherwise… say farewell to vowels! Your next tweet may look like “Grt nws frm twttr!”. Trd th nw Twttr yt? … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi FM transmitter: one short wire and a radio let you broadcast WAV files (Vine footage included)

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Stefano

Another Raspberry Pi project: how to turn RPi into an FM transmitter? Imperial College Robotics Society released this Python code that streams a simple (44.1 KHz, mono, 16 bit) audio WAV file into FM. How to prepare this recipe: download … Continue reading →

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