Twitter has updated its system with an “ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country–while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” Yes, it sounds like selective censorship. This new feature would enable Twitter to be more effective in tailoring itself to the needs of certain countries. This can be seem as a good thing or a bad thing. For instance, it is a crime...

Fearing that Google is veering away from its mission of being a neutral Internet directory, engineers from Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace created an open-source plug-in to alter Google’s “Search Plus Your World” that prioritizes data collected from its social network Google+ in its search engine results. This plug-in would include social media results from other social networks apart from G+ such ...

Twitter has become quite popular nowadays. And its popularity is even increasing now that more and more people are coming on board and join in the “Tweeting” habit. It has become so popular that it has even recently overtaken MySpace in terms of users. According to numbers from Comscore for last month, the four-year old micro blogging site has overtaken MySpace with 96 million unique visitors in August...

It has been some time since Twitter has delved on building a revenue stream for its wildly popular micro-blogging site. It aimed to do so without having to place ads on its home page and other pages for that matter. They have since tried to develop alternative means of generating revenue. One of their newest is with @earlybird. Twitter has put up a Twitter account that it calls @earlybird. It is being planned to b...