A Press complaints Commission has ruled that all material published on Twitter should be classed as public. A complaint was recently made by a Department of Transport that her private tweets had been published in both the Daily Mail and Independent on Sunday. The messages embarrassingly contained references about being hung-over in work. It was Read News…
Tweets No Longer Private Information
February 9th, 2011 by Geoff
Google ‘Shopper’ Moves Onto iPhone
February 7th, 2011 by Geoff
Google’s Shopper mobile application is being introduced for Apple iPhone. This already exists for Android devices. Shopper allows users to search for products by voice, with the camera, via a barcode scan or by text entry. Users may also share products on Facebook, Twitter, SMS or email. Google Shopper shows prices, product reviews and any Read News…
Social Media Changes The Message
October 22nd, 2010 by Geoff
Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other other social media sites have revolutionized the way friends and family keep in touch and communicate with one another. And yesterday 3 of the biggest online players announced plans to provide a sFund for budding social media entrepreneurs, that will enable them to design and develop Read News…
Twitter Hit By Worm Virus
September 21st, 2010 by Geoff
Twitter has today blocked a worm virus that was self replicating across their site creating malicious code and content. The worm virus is thought to have affected thousands of users across the web, and comes so soon after Twitter implemented new security measures across the website. The cause of the virus, malicious links which were Read News…
Twitter’s Major Revamp – The first in 4 Years.
September 16th, 2010 by Geoff
Twitter has undergone a major facelift in order to improve its multi-media experience for 160 million users. The aim of the redesign is to make it easier for its users when looking at photos and video on the site. It is also trying to keep people on the website for longer and to return more Read News…
Facebook and Twitter User accounts hacked with offers of fee i-pads
September 7th, 2010 by Geoff
A spammer has managed to successfully hack into Facebook’s photo upload system in order to spam Facebook and Twitter with photos promising free iPads and iPhones. The spammer who managed to post these photos to people’s walls, exploited a flaw in the system which did not check if a photo could be posted to someone’s Read News…
Lady Gaga out tweets Britney
August 23rd, 2010 by Geoff
Lady Gaga has become the most popular person on the social networking site Twitter. The Bad Romance singer has taken the crown from the previous queen of tweets Britney Spears. Lady Gaga now has 5,735,554 compared to 5,701,236 following Britney Spears. These figures compiled up until the 23rd August 2010. Britney Spears was only on Read News…
Digital Journalism – the way forward
July 7th, 2010 by Geoff
The way journalism is viewed has changed dramatically over the last few years. Many journalists see old or traditional media to be a gloomy place for journalism according to an interview by Oriella PR’s digital journalism study. However it is not all bad, there are some positive results with some journalists having a brighter outlook Read News…









