Pownce, the hosted Twitter-alike service Six Apart acquired last year, re-emerges as free, open-source app for Web developers called Motion. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, ...

Socialtext has built microblogging functionality into its hosted enterprise collaboration system in recognition of the growing popularity among professionals of Twitter, the service that has made ...

Meta will begin testing ads on its Threads microblogging service with a few companies in the U.S. and Japan, the company said in a blog post Friday. The experiment marks Meta's first run at generating ...

Watching Twitter-X go through a super-nova-style implosion, complete with large layoffs, rebranding, a major exodus of advertisers and advertising revenue, a new CEO and the suggestion of a new, ...

Microblogging is simply blogging on a small scale. Microblog entries consist of usually around 150 characters and/or the inclusion of photos and video. They are then displayed in line with each other ...

Twitter's recent failures prove the value of the service as well as why it needs to be distributed beyond just one brand of microblogs. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

One of China’s most popular social media platforms is planning to prohibit users from sharing web links that aren’t from a list of approved sources, citing a need to “block malicious behavior.” Weibo, ...

While Cool Tools would've provided great ideas for Fourth of July excitement, my stomach bug had other ideas. So I decided to make the most of my time on the couch and spend some time poking around ...

Socialtext have seen a significant increase in requests for their successful Signals product, which runs behind the firewall, and have chosen to deconstruct their suite offering into modular ...

New regulations requiring China’s Twitter-like microblogging sites to only allow posts from verified users have been met with reluctance from some of the nation’s Internet users as the rules went into ...

StatusNet announced today that it had secured an “A” round of funding led by FirstMark Capital. This brings the total investment in the open source microblogging company to about $2.3m. That is a ...