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It seems trouble is afoot in the world of entertainment as an incident on last night’s Piers Morgan Tonight show has got a lot of people talking. The Tea Party’s Christine O’Donnell walked out of the CNN show after Morgan continued to ask questions about gay marriage, leaving Morgan looking … [Read more...]
After a weekend overflowing with Football, Twitter has been buzzing ever since. Last weekend we saw the return of the Barclay's Premier League, with other separate Footballing stories also trending. Each week we give you a roundup of the 10 best trending topics on Twitter and Football regularly … [Read more...]
Online social networking site Twitter is once again being used in relation to the world of football. It seems that if its not players voicing their frustrations on the popular site, then its the managers. In the past players from teams such as Arsenal, Leeds, Chelsea, Newcastle, Manchester Utd and … [Read more...]
This time one week ago following on from the death of Tottenham's Mark Duggan, London was under siege from rioters who were torching cars, businesses, smashing shop fronts, attacking the police and so on. The violence carried out throughout various boroughs in the city which later started to spread … [Read more...]
Online social networking sites have now become part of our daily lives, in fact some would argue that they have taken over our existence. Although sites such as Facebook and Twitter being the big two, pull in millions of users every day of every week and offer positive experiences such as finding … [Read more...]
The move of Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona was finally completed today and we have just witnessed jubilant scenes as Fabregas was welcomed by thousands of fans to the Nou Camp, followed by a press conference. However it seems that although Fabregas was pretty gracious about his time at … [Read more...]
Since its launch just 4 years ago, online social networking site Twitter is rapidly expanding, user figures are now over 250 million and that number is continually rising on a daily basis. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook attract everyday people plus some big celebrity names and of course we all … [Read more...]
It’s that time of the week again where we look back upon one of the largest social networks and one that continues to grow at the things that have been trending on it. That’s right, we are talking about Twitter and the top 10 trending topics that come courtesy of Mashable's Matt Silverman and we … [Read more...]
Today we have sad news of the passing of a Bollywood legend. Shammi Kapoor, often dubbed India’s Elvis Presley, died aged 79 of kidney failure earlier today at Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital. Kapoor’s dancing and acting style was a huge influence on modern-day Bollywood stars and already … [Read more...]
At OSM we regularly keep tracks on the things that people are searching for or including in their tweets, this data ranges from Football teams and player names, right the way through to major events and films. Now we are seeing that the Twitter fans are jubilant as Mike Myers signs on the dotted … [Read more...]
To many, the words “Social Media” may still sound almost alien, but then if we mentioned how the use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, professional site LinkedIn and so on are now being used, you may start to prick your ears up! Over the last few years, sites such as the … [Read more...]
Twitter has been kicking into overdrive today after a busy day of Football transfer news. It seems that one of the longest running transfer sagas of all time, Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona has been concluded. The deal has unofficially been completed and Arsenal fans have accepted they have lost their … [Read more...]
Online social networking site Twitter has now attracted over 250 million followers since its initial beginnings back in 2006. A range of people log onto the site everyday including some big celebrity names. Past articles we've written about have included a huge range of topics, be it businesses … [Read more...]
The dreadful riots that have struck the UK over the last week have been the subject of much debate about just how the situation should be handled and the response to the criminal element involved. Today Greater Manchester Police has begun a controversial initiative whereby the force is identifying … [Read more...]
Some of you switching your Twitter on yesterday will have noticed that Old Twitter is now defunct, long live New Twitter. When the new interface was launched last fall it provoked mixed response from many regular users, as do most changes on social networking sites. However, people could still … [Read more...]
Since the London riots started a few days ago, the internet has been a hive of activity. Be it people surfing social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, or even heading on over to news sites such as the BBC or Sky News. Here at OSM, we've brought you a handful of articles since Sunday … [Read more...]
As social media becomes ever more popular we are seeing an increase in different types of functionality on each of them. Now we have just found from logging into Twitter and hitting the HOME tab that there’s a new Twitter update that allows for photo sharing, say cheese rioters, this is just in … [Read more...]
We are all by now well aware and engrossed in the shocking scenes of rioting all over London. Disturbing images of buildings on fire, mobs smashing up shops and young kids looting are dominating all news stations worldwide. My colleague Tim Ollason earlier asked the question if social media was … [Read more...]
Like many others, here at OSM we've been following the upsetting scenes taking place within boroughs in London, we'll talking about the riots throughout the city which coincidentally are now spreading to other parts of the country. Following on from the shooting of Tottenham's Mark Duggan, scores … [Read more...]
The current drops in the stock market are of course a big worry to many people but it seems that Twitter users know exactly who is at fault and have taken Standard & Poor’s to task. Yesterday the stock market took a big hit with NASDAQ and Dow Jones falling between 5 and 7% and Twitter … [Read more...]
Online social networking site Twitter can be used by the likes of just about anyone, be it the Joe Blogs down the street or a famous celebrity. In the past the news has varied from sportsmen/women venting their frustrations or anger by Tweet, news of tributes to a star that's passed away, the most … [Read more...]
Welcome to the chart where we give you a countdown of the week's top 10 trending topics on Twitter. We bring you this feature weekly and monthly, rounding up the biggest points of discussion on everyone's favorite microblogging site. The trends are compiled by Mashable's Matt Silverman who we send … [Read more...]
When it comes to social networking you now have a very diverse range of them that you can sign up to. They are all very different and when you think about Google+, Twitter and Facebook we want to know which your network of choice is? We will go through a few and point out their positive and negative … [Read more...]
Manchester United fans rejoice as Nani saved De Gea’s blushes after Dzeko smashed one past him at the end of the second half in today’s massive match for the Charity Shield. This has drawn Twitter users to compare the goal keeper to ex flop Massimo Taibi and his short spurt at Manchester United … [Read more...]
Social networking site Twitter, rival to that of Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and the new Google+ has to date over 250 million active users and the figure is continually growing. There will no doubt be many of you who use Twitter plus others to get your daily fix of posting messages to others, in … [Read more...]
