Monday, October 27, 2014
Taylor Swift's '1989' Came Out 47 Minutes Early: Best Fan Reactions
The wait is over
Taylor Swift's 1989 dropped 47 minutes early Sunday ahead of its scheduled midnight release, sending fans on Twitter into digital hyperventilation a.k.a. frenetic all-caps mode
The album marks the 24-year-old's risky jump from being a country-pop artist to trying to take over the charts as a pure, no-country-strings-attached pop star.
IT'S OUT IT'S OUT IT'S OUT
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
GO GO GO
#TS1989— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 27, 2014
My last tweet tonight.
It's here.
#TS1989
@iTunesMusic
http://bitly.com/1rIP9pA— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 27, 2014 Read more...
More about Twitter, Music, Entertainment, Social Media, and Celebrities
via Social Media http://on.mash.to/1rIP9pB
Sunday, October 26, 2014
38 Blood-Curdling Zombie Walk Photos on Instagram
The undead were out in full force this weekend — but don't worry, you're perfectly safe
Brains, lesions, and guts graced the faces of zombie enthusiasts out for one of the many zombie walks in cities worldwide, including Toronto, San Francisco, Montreal and more. This gory tradition calls for an all-or-nothing dedication to making the most skin-crawling costumes imaginable.
Check out some of the weekend's most gruesome looks through the Kelvin-filtered lens of Instagram, below. And for those wondering how to get in on the gore before the Halloween season ends, you can find a comprehensive list of upcoming zombie walks, here. Read more...
More about Pics, Social Media, Zombies, Halloween, and Watercooler
via Social Media http://on.mash.to/1v0sMwO
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Twitter Acquires Twitpic's Archive, Saga Finally Ends
Twitter has acquired Twitpic's website and photo archive.
"I'm happy to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to give them the Twitpic domain and photo archive, thus keeping the photos and links alive for the time being," Twitpic creator Noah Everett announced Saturday in a blog post. "Twitter shares our goal of protecting our users and this data."
This resolution, which is more than a little ironic, ends one of the most melodramatic startup closures in recent memory.
Twitpic, a service that allowed users to attach photos to their tweets, said in September that it would be shutting down. The reason, according to Everett, was that Twitter — a public company — opposed Twitpic receiving a trademark for its name. If Twitpic didn't withdraw its trademark application, Twitter said it would revoke Twitpic's API key, making the service useless. Read more...
More about Twitter, Twitpic, Startups, Social Media, and Apps Software
via Social Media http://on.mash.to/ZP5YYf
Friday, October 24, 2014
24 Hours Later, Users Find Hacks for Facebook's Rooms
Facebook introduced its anonymous community app Rooms on Thursday. Now, just 24 hours later, the lead product manager on Rooms discovered that users have hacked it
He's delighted. Josh Miller, the Facebook product manager, wrote Friday in a Medium blog post that Facebook left out the ability to discover new Rooms
"Though counterintuitive, our logic was that retro web browsers didn’t offer 'discovery' for early Internet communities — you had to tell Netscape exactly where you wanted to go –- so why should we?" he said. "Our hypothesis was that places on the web being hard to find was a feature, not a bug." Read more...
More about Facebook, Rooms, and Social Media
via Social Media http://on.mash.to/1tkgJyV
Thursday, October 23, 2014
What Twitter Fabric Means for Developers
Twitter has had a complicated relationship with developers.
In its earlier days, the social network encouraged third-party developers to build their own apps and services on top of the platform. But the company later began to roll out its own competing features (the most notable example of this is when Twitter created its own image sharing service, frustrating companies like Twitpic and Yfrog).
But Twitter made its biggest appeal yet to developers on Wednesday at Flight, the company's first mobile developer conference. There CEO Dick Costolo unveiled Fabric, the company's ambitious plan to win back developers. Read more...
More about Twitter, Social Media, Tech, Apps Software, and Apps And Software
via Social Media http://on.mash.to/10qv80u