Greek triple-jumper: Voula Papachristou pictures and the dot com

Posted by DomainGang on July 26, 2012, at 12:10 am

Greek triple-jumper Voula Papachristou was banned from the London Olympics yesterday, after a thoughtless “joke” over Twitter was considered racist and in violation of the International Olympic Committee guidelines. Our access logs experienced a lot of interest in photos of Voula Papachristou, whose apology came too late to save her from banishment; the Greek Olympic […]

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Racist tweet bans Greek triple-jumper Voula Papachristou from London Olympics

Posted by DomainGang on July 25, 2012, at 3:59 pm

UPDATE: Looking for Voula Papachristou photos? CLICK HERE! Racism has many shades of gray; it can creep up even when it’s part of a seemingly innocent joke. Greek triple-jumper, Voula Papachristou, has been banished from the London Olympics set to begin this Friday, after cracking the following joke over Twitter: “With so many Africans (immigrants) […]

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LinkedIn tweaks its Twitter relationship

Posted by DomainGang on June 29, 2012, at 6:11 pm

LinkedIn – the global network for professionals – has tweaked its 3 year old integration of Twitter, to comply with Twitter’s new policies. According to the LinkedIn blog: “If you had previously synced your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and selected the option to share Tweets on LinkedIn, those Tweets generated from Twitter will no longer […]

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Four-figure Twitter handle sale shakes ICANN-laden blogosphere

Posted by DomainGang on June 13, 2012, at 2:15 pm

Today’s news is 99% about ICANN, what with the revealing of almost 2,000 new gTLD applications. Even the Domain King noticed the plethora of news blogged about by us and other domain blogs! 😀 But this sale of a Twitter handle for 2,750 British pounds (or $4,279 dollars in current exchange rates) is quite shocking. […]

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Forget about your Twitter domains and followers grand plan!

Posted by DomainGang on April 6, 2012, at 6:00 pm

Did you register, acquire or otherwise drool over a “twitter followers” domain? It’s about time to rethink your marketing strategy, because Twitter will come onto you like a billion birds of a feather. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, five of Twitter’s most aggressive spammers are named as defendants. They used […]

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Your free tweets are making Twitter a fortune!

Posted by DomainGang on February 28, 2012, at 8:16 pm

Twitter has sold a large portion of its database of a few billion tweets – that includes yours and mine as well – to data mining company DataSift. As long as you have been tweeting for the past two years, DataSift will now own your messages, witticisms and embarrassing public messages – having bought them […]

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F#$& you, Twitter!

Posted by DomainGang on January 27, 2012, at 3:52 pm

Twitter will begin to censor tweets – “when deemed necessary“. It seems that some third world governments do not like the popularity that Twitter has gained with millions of suppressed masses and Twitter will comply with government requests to delete or block particular posts. “Until now, the only way we could take account of those […]

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Allah is great! Saudi prince invests in Twitter

Posted by DomainGang on December 19, 2011, at 4:15 pm

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is forking out $300 million dollars – that’s $300 followed by six zeros – investing it in Twitter. According to Reuters: The Twitter stake, bought jointly by Alwaleed and his Kingdom Holding Co investment firm, resulted from “months of negotiations,” Kingdom said. The […]

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Your Twitter friends can now ‘spy’ on your activity

Posted by DomainGang on November 7, 2011, at 10:11 pm

Twitter has introduced “Activity” – a feature that does the following: New! Activity View favorites, follows, retweets and more by people you follow in Activity. View your mentions, tweets that were retweeted and more in @. In other words, you can see what those that you follow are doing and vice versa: they can view […]

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TweetQuake: Twitter moving faster than an earthquake

Posted by DomainGang on August 25, 2011, at 8:56 pm

Apparently, Twitter users reported the Virginia earthquake faster than the quake waves moved in an outwards radius. It shows how social media can outpace real time events. A heat map of the frequency of tweets mentioning the word “earthquake” in the 5 minutes after the Virginia earthquake on 08/23/2011. The locations are self-reported by Twitter […]

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Twitter adds image upload feature

Posted by DomainGang on August 9, 2011, at 5:02 pm

Twitter has added a much needed feature: uploading an image from your computer to share with the world. To upload an image, one can click on the photo icon below the tweet field. This feature is also dangerous, as one might upload a picture by accident; for that matter, there is a preview mode prior […]

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12 Boldest Domainer Tweets

Posted by DomainGang on June 9, 2011, at 6:33 pm

The domain community consists of many remarkable individuals, some of which tend to stand out from the crowd due to their personality. Some are the quiet type, others are balanced while some are overly extroverted 🙂 We thought it’d be fun to imagine what some of these domainers would say on Twitter, projecting a domainer’s […]

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