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Online social networking site Twitter may not have quite beaten its rival Facebook in terms of user numbers, but its having a pretty good go. Figures are now equating to over 200 million and as well as the likes of you and me accessing the site, celebrity figures are as well. Articles we've … [Read more...]
I must start this by saying that I'm not a big football fan, there you go I said it, I don’t really understand the so called beautiful game although I can relate to the dedication that its fans and followers all possess. This small issue aside I have to admit to being a bit taken by FIFA 11 on the … [Read more...]
If you’re a fan of the Academy Awards you’ll be interested in the news that Eddie Murphy is to host the award ceremony in February 2012. The move had been hotly rumored on Twitter and sure enough the producers of the Oscars announced the news today. Surprisingly perhaps, it is the first time … [Read more...]
We’re only one day away from the beginning of New York Fashion Week and once again the benefits of social media and online resources have been recognized. Yesterday we told how the Rugby World Cup 2011 has a huge social media presence this year and although these are very different subjects, the … [Read more...]
Today celebrates the life and music of famous singer and frontman of Queen “Freddie Mercury” and what would have been his 65th birthday. Search engine Google have embraced the legend with their own fitting Google Doodle which coincidentally if clicked onto will automatically show clips and … [Read more...]
If you’re a sports fan then you’ll already know that the Rugby World Cup 2011 begins in a few days time, running from September 9 to October 23. The action this time around will be taking place in New Zealand and organizers have arranged a variety of way in which fans across the world can … [Read more...]
Online social networking site Twitter launched back in 2006 is showing no signs of slowing up, in fact its quite the reverse. User numbers according to wikipedia are now in the region of over 200 million with at least 200 million tweets or messages being sent on a daily basis, along with 1.6 … [Read more...]
Each week as you may know, we feature a chart of the top 10 Twitter trends for the past 7 days. We also roundup the most popular trends of the last month and it is now time to do this for August. Last week's and month's most popular trend was Football/soccer but can it recreate its massive … [Read more...]
The Premier League has kicked off and already we are seeing some strong teams, Manchester United thumped eight past Arsenal at the weekend which has sent people loopy over Arsenal’s future. With that being the case many people on Twitter are talking about potential transfers on deadline day to … [Read more...]
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards took place on Sunday night and the growing impact of social media on big TV events once again made its mark. Previous Twitter landmarks were surpassed by the announcement of Beyonce Knowles’ pregnancy, which saw a new Twitter record being set. Below this story you … [Read more...]
Last month we brought you some details about spoof Twitter accounts from fiction and to brighten your day today we have some details for you about more hoax Twitter accounts worth following, this time from the worlds of tech and social media. … [Read more...]
It was been an absolutely unbelievable day of Premier League football and as a result the social media sites have been a buzzing hive of excitement. Manchester United absolutely thrashed Arsenal 8-2 a short while ago, with Twitter in particular absolutely exploding with reaction to the game. A … [Read more...]
As Hurricane Irene continues its relentless path over the US East Coast we’ve already given readers some useful online tracking tools for keeping an eye on the projected path. Today we have what should hopefully be more helpful information with online resources showing current conditions and also … [Read more...]
In the past few days we’ve brought you various articles on the shock resignation of Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. We looked at the possible impact on Apple stock and also talked about the effects of his resignation on an iPhone 5 launch. Today though we wanted to take a look at the reaction to … [Read more...]
We brought you the news a few days back that the UK government were set for a meeting with Facebook, Twitter and Research In Motion. The issue on the agenda was the part that these company's services played in the recent UK riots. The talks between Home Secretary Theresa May, officials and the … [Read more...]
If you are a Twitter user then you will know that football is a topic that trends a hell of a lot on the site. It regularly appears on our chart of top 10 trends, topping last weekend. We saw last week how there was plenty of discussion about the Cesc Fabregas transfer to Barcelona, Twitter has … [Read more...]
Latest reports on Hurricane Irene show it strengthening again in power and still on a projected path to the east coast of the US, maybe impacting as far north as New England. As if an earthquake wasn’t enough to cope with, many are now wondering if they will be affected by Irene and we have some … [Read more...]
The UK riots are pretty much over now but there is still an investigation into the role that social media played in the chaos. The huge amount of people that decided to rebel, loot and destroy mostly used social networking services like Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger to organize their … [Read more...]
Twitter is currently rolling out an update to the site which lets you view photos uploaded to the site easier. From now on there will be a viewing gallery which shows you all images uploaded from third party tools such as TwitPic, Instagram or yFrog. This new feature will now appear on any profile … [Read more...]
Two major TV shows begun another run last week and the role of social media in TV today soon became evident. First we had the return of Celebrity Big Brother and fans were soon taking to Twitter to complain about the lack of live feed. Then on Saturday it was time for the return of the X Factor, … [Read more...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Twitter top 10 trending topics where we are expecting Football / Soccer to top the chart once again. The chart this week comes courtesy of Mashable’s Charlie White where we have had a pretty eventful week on the ever growing Twitter with different topics … [Read more...]
Here at OSM, microblogging site Twitter is one of our most popular topics and many of us have become regular users, to an extent we never could have imagined when it was launched. Last month we shared an infographic showing the success story of Twitter and now we have news for you of a new … [Read more...]
Online social networking site Twitter is growing in user numbers by the day and at the last count over 250 million people were joining the site. Having launched in 2006, the popular Twitter allows those to follow their favorite celebrity or friends, message or tweet as its known and so on. In the … [Read more...]
It may only be day three of Celebrity Big Brother 2011 but the amount of attention the series is getting is a good sign for new host Channel 5 and presenter Brian Dowling. Although many of us are already hooked on the daily goings on of the celebs including Kerry Katona, Jedward and Paddy (though I … [Read more...]
We brought you the news last week that firstly Anonymous had a plan to destroy Facebook and then secondly that a large part of the organization had stepped away from this threat. ANON has now confirmed collectively via Twitter that the attack will not go ahead on the scheduled date of Guy Fawkes … [Read more...]
