Facebook will now allow its 750 million registered users to post updates on both its platform and Twitter at the same time. This move will provide more content to Twitter, a social platform of 100 million active users.

To enable Twitter updates via Facebook, the user needs to go to facebook.com/twitter and link the profile page to the Twitter account.

• Michael Bowie – Host

NOTES

In this episode, we discussed the following topics:

Kindle To Get Page Numbers

Google Loses Share Value To Bing

New Samsung Galaxy S 2 and Galaxy Tab 2

Nokia Adopts Windows Phone 7

Microsoft Drops Autorun

Crysis 2 Leaks

Twitter in Buyout Talks

Twitter and other social networking websites such as Facebook are still presently fighting a surge in traffic related to the attack.

Protective measures imposed by Twitter to prevent being knocked offline again has caused issues to 3rd party tools that link to Twitter’s API.

The DDOS attack has been suggested to have been politically motivated aimed at a single user from Georgia. The victim, known to bear the username Cyxymu, uses social media to express views related to tensions between Russia and Georgia.

Chief Research Officer of Internet security firm F-Secure, said “Launching DDoS attacks against services like Facebook is the equivalent of bombing a TV station because you don’t like one of the newscasters.”

The attacks motivated Twitter to work on improving its base infrastructure.

• GOOGLE CHROME OS TO FOCUS ON THE WEB
  Reported by Dylan Combs
• MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 TO RIVAL GOOGLE DOCS
  Reported by Tom Maxwell
• STEVE BALLMER OPTIMISTIC WITH WINDOWS 7
  Reported by John Raul Joven II
• CYBERBULLYING CASES ON THE RISE
  Reported by Gerardo Velasco
• TWITTER INVADES WORLD OF WARCRAFT
  Reported by Sean Jonze
• GEEK OF THE WEEK: CALI LEWIS OF GEEKBRIEF.TV
  Reported by John Raul Joven II

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They have smartly put together the highly social program “Twitter” with one of the most used games of all time: World of Warcraft. This smart program is called TweetCraft, so you go along killing ghouls and goblins, as well as keeping in touch with your friends and the outside world.

So TweetCraft was released on 2nd July, and already has received positive reviews, so if your a fan of the franchise World of Warcraft, visit www.tweetcraft.codeplex.com and hit the download spot.

There’s another useful feature, if your fighting “The Prince of Darkness” and your friend’s just don’t believe you, you just use Twitpic, to screenshot your character in game play. And you can also auto tweet so you show your achievements in the game. So receive tweets in and out of the game.

So as Twitter is growing and growing, and you’ll be seeing these twitter clients get produced all the time, so you will start seeing them in other games and bigger names.

So to round things up, go and try out this new client, to support it and keep it alive, because might just die.

• FACEBOOK STREAMS THREATEN TWITTER
  Reported by Gerardo Velasco
• MICROSOFT INTEGRATES WINDOWS XP ON WINDOWS 7
  Reported by John Raul Joven II
• NETBOOKS DON’T DESERVE APPLE LOGO
  Reported by Richard Crake
• FIND BARGAIN NETBOOKS AT EBAY
  Reported by Tom Maxwell
• GEEK OF THE WEEK: NEIL PERRIN OF GEEKWITHGLASSES.NET
  Reported by Beau Sinclair

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With so many competitions such as MySpace and Facebook, will twitter really survive with its only feature being broadcasting status updates and messaging back and forth?

Twitter’s user loyalty problem will have a great impact in its feature success… or failure. With 60% of Twitter’s users not returning until the following month to use Twitter’s service, Twitter is lagging behind Facebook and MySpace.

Now with Facebook also opening its stream to API developers, it now allows any developer to create new applications incorporating the real-time stream of Facebook. With so many Twitter applications using Twitter API stream created for desktop and mobile applications, Facebook has fired back allowing its API stream to be used by any developer, this means new competition for Twitter.

What do you say about Twitter’s future? Does it stand against today’s social networking giants Facebook or MySpace? We will have to wait and see who takes advantage of Facebook’s new API stream and how Twitter will respond back. Until then, Twitter remains head to head with Facebook.