January 24th, 2011 admin
Scotia Systems is proud to announce the release of their latest twitter geo-location app “www.seekatweet.com”.
Following on from the success of the previous apps, www.mapmyfollowers.com and www.mapmyfollowing.com, seekatweet has been built on the feedback from the 20,000+ users of these popular twitter mashups.
www.seekatweet.com is primarily a way of showing Tweets from around a specific location. By clicking on the map, you can see the 100 recent popular tweets from that area.
The keyword tag cloud shows what terms are the most popular within the tweet results.
Using the map controls, you can vary the search radius from 1km to 500km. You can also filter the tweet stream on specific keywords.
We’ll have a follow-up article shortly giving different examples of how to use the app, but for now, why not head over to www.seekatweet.com and give it a try?!
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October 16th, 2010 admin
If you haven’t yet heard of the beatcancer campaign, it’s aim is to make #beatcancer a world record trending topic.
www.beatcancereverywhere.com
With donations from corporations such as Paypal and Qualcomm for each Tweet, blog post and Facebook mention, the goal is to raise money for charities supporting Cancer.
Started 2009
The project first started in 2009 when #beatcancer became a Twitter trending topic and featured on Mashable :
http://mashable.com/2009/10/16/social-media-campaign-to-beat-cancer-eyes-record-in-guinness-book/
However if you take a look at the comments on this post, there is doubt about whether the project is a hoax or not.
Looking for proof
I like the idea of the project (having lost a good friend recently due to cancer) and spurred on by a tweet by the UK Dragon Den’s Duncan Bannatyne decided to investigate.
It turns out that #beatcancer coincides with (and is triggered by) Blogworld – a yearly Social Media conference held in Las Vegas.
Attending this conference is Judy Chang from PayPal’s nonprofit team. Judy wrote a post on the official PaylPal blog on October 14th announcing the start of this year’s attempt at the record breaking charity project
:
https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/10/paypal-helps-beatcancer-at-blogworld-2010/
Further evidence of Paypal’s involvement comes from the official Twitter account of Paypal:
So it looks like the charity project is indeed for a good cause! Here’s hoping they beat last years record and raise lots of funding to help Beat Cancer!!
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September 2nd, 2010 admin
Are you unable to log in to Twitter this morning? If so, it’s probably due to a recent update to the Twitter API.
As of August 31st, applications which access Twitter need to use the OAuth protocol. This means that if your application is using the old authentication method and hasn’t been updated, you won’t be able to log in.
According to Twiiter, there are some 250,000 applications which access Twitter, so expect some disruption as they all move to OAuth!
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