Tag: Twitter

Big B completes two years on Twitter

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, a regular blogger and Twitterati, has completed two years on microblogging site Twitter, and continues to share tidbits from his daily...

Cairns wins Twitter libel action against Modi

Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns has won a libel action against Lalit Modi in London that leaves the one-time chairman of the Indian...

Twitter begins self-serve advertising for small businesses

Twitter Inc. on Thursday formally launched a service to allow small businesses to buy and place ads on the online messaging platform. Twitter, which for...

Man breaks in Twitter verification with fake account of Murdoch’s wife

Ever since Twitter developed a system in 2009 for authenticating celebrity accounts, following a lawsuit by then-St Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa over...

Black British politician sorry for Twitter race row

A black British lawmaker apologised Thursday for a Twitter comment saying that white people “love playing divide and rule”, a day after two men...

Amitabh most followed Bollywood celeb on Twitter

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has surpassed Twitter queen Priyanka Chopra, emerging as the most popular celebrity on the micro-blogging site with 1,850,903 followers. Bachchan, who...

Ricky Gervais caught up in Twitter spat with...

Ricky Gervais has provoked the rage of fundamentalist Christians after getting into a row about God on Twitter. The spat began when a user...

Saudi prince buys $300 mn stake in Twitter

Saudi billionaire Prince Walid bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Company announced a combined investment of $300 million in the social networking site Twitter,...

Political rat race

Never too early for campaigning While the elections are scheduled for the beginning of 2013, what one sees happening around gives the impression of the...

Spot the difference?

Twitter is launching a new-look that it hopes will encourage more people to flock to the site – but the new, picture-heavy feel takes...

Celebs mourn loss of Dev Saab on Twitter

Amitabh Bachchan: An era has come to an end .. Dev Anand leaves a void never perhaps to be filled again .. his never...

Shahid’s back to tweeting anger

Bollywood heartthrob Shahid Kapur is fuming over reports claiming that he was spotted kissing actress Anushka Sharma. "Extremely distasteful story today ...some journalists need...

Twitter wins lawsuit, gets ‘tweet’ trademark

The word “tweet” is to become a registered trademark of the micro-blogging website Twitter, company executives have said. They said Twitter had resolved a...

Shahid ‘unfollows’ Shah Rukh, ex-flame Priyanka on Twitter

Shahid Kapur seems to have taken Twitter quite seriously. The actor, who had blasted Bollywood trade analyst Taran Adarsh for criticising ‘Mausam’ on the...

Twitter tells scientists how the world feels

Hate mornings, especially on Mondays? You may be surprised to know that much of the world doesn’t share that grumpy feeling. Twitter shows people...

Priyanka beats Big B, SRK on Twitter

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who has got more than 1,400,000 followers on Twitter, has become most popular face on the microblogging site after beating...

Beyonce pregnancy sets Twitter record

Twitter users fired off a record number of tweets per second following the announcement by pop diva Beyonce at the MTV Video Music Awards...