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  • In Case of Fire, Tweet Later [pic]

    Like millions of others, I often feel the urge to tweet something when something exciting is happening before really taking the time to react to whatever is going on.  Well, apparently this is becoming such a problem (probably an addiction to Twitter) that places are now having to put up signs saying saying that in…

  • Yummy Twitter Birthday Cake [pic]

    One our or Dutch readers and fellow blogger, Jeroen Ooms emailed me (pcnerd37@globalgeeknews.com) for anybody who wants to shoot me an email) to pass along an awesome Twitter birthday cake that was made for his birthday.  The cake looks pretty good!  If you would like to wish Jeroen a happy birthday (and you should), you…

  • Awesome Twitter cake [pic]

    A few days ago, Twitter turned 5 years old and apparently somebody created this awesome Twitter cake to celebrate!  As yummy as this Twitter cake looks, I am kind of sad that the Fail Whale doesn’t make an appearance on it.  Even without the Fail Whale, it still looks really tasty!  Whoever made this has…

  • Stats for the Internet in 2010

    Image via Wikipedia A company called Pingdom has realeased some very impressive statistics for the state of the internet in 2010.  It is worth checking out all of the stats given in the previous link but here are some of the highlights that I found most interesting. 107 Trillion emails were sent in 2010, 89.1%…

  • An Ashton Kutcher tweet only gets you 13,000 clicks

    Image via Wikipedia Have you ever thought to youself, “I could get a huge amount of traffic to my site if I could just get some celebrity with millions of followers to tweet about it?”  A company had that dream realized but the results are less than spectacular. Ashton Kutcher tweeted a video from a…

  • Twitter: 25 billion tweets in 2010, Top 10 trends for 2010

    Last week, Google announced the top searches in 2010 with their 2010 Zeitgeist and now it is Twitter’s turn to give their top 10 trends of 2010. In a blog post, Twitter announced that an amazing 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010.  Out of those tweets, here are the top 10 Twitter trends for…