Whether you’re new to Twitter or a micro-messaging veteran, think twice before you add an outrageous tweeter to the list of people you’re following. Remember that tweets from these accounts will show up in your timeline hourly and that the messages they tweet may send a shock to your system…or at least make you go “hmm.” Here are 10 Tweeters that are not for the faint of heart. Read more
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First, photo-sharing service TweetPhoto got a new name, becoming Plixi in August. Now, it has a new owner — members-only social-commerce site Lockerz — and it will soon have another new name, as Lockerz said Plixi will become Lockerz Photos and the combined traffic of the two sites will total more than 31 million unique monthly users.
Plixi serves more than 1 billion photos per month, and more than 300 developers have integrated its technology, with the service receiving more than 67 million requests daily via application program interfaces.
The two companies will team up to develop new media-sharing features, including the ability for Lockerz members to share activities, photos, and videos on other social networks. They will also focus on celebrity content, as Plixi celebrity users currently include Justin Bieber, LeBron James, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Seth MacFarlane, and Chelsea Handler.
Terms of the transaction were not revealed.
Do you know who that is in the picture? Justin Bieber, right? Wrong! That’s 17-year old Jamie Laou, an Australian kid who is blessed with looking almost exactly like YouTube-discovered pop sensation Justin Bieber.
Twitter’s year-end wrap-up continued in full force, as the microblogging service followed up Monday‘s Top 10 Twitter Trends of the Year and Tuesday‘s 10 Most Powerful Tweets with Wednesday’s installment: The Year’s Most Retweeted Tweets.
Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, will receive the first-ever Golden Tweet award during Wednesday night’s broadcast for topping the list. The 10 Most Retweeted Tweets:
1: Stephen Colbert, @StephenAtHome: in honor of oil-soaked birds, ‘tweets’ are now ‘gurgles. http://bit.ly/cIhZNf
2: Drake, @drakkardnoir: We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us
3: Lil Wayne, @liltunechi: aaaaaaahhhhhhmmmmm baaaaakkkkkkkkkk
4: Justin Bieber, @justinbieber: te quiero mucho mi amor
5: Al-Qaeda, @alqaeda: Just noticed Twitter keeps prompting me to “Add a location to your tweets”. Not falling for that one.
6: Joe Jonas, @joejonas: I cry because I love Justin Bieber!!!
7: Lady Gaga, @ladygaga: I’m beautiful in my way, ’cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track, baby. I was Born This Way.
8: Kanye West, @kanyewest: I’m sorry Taylor.
9: Rihanna, @rihanna: Justin Bieber just flashed me his abs in the middle of a restaurant! Wow! He actually had a lil 6 pack! Sexy,lol!#Beliebersplzdontkillme
10: Justin Halpern, @shitmydadsays: “Don’t focus on the one guy who hates you. You don’t go to the park and set your picnic down next to the only pile of dog shit.”
Twitter isn’t the only social network analyzing its 2010, as data scientist Lars Backstrom posted 2010 Memology: Top Status Trends of the Year on the Facebook Blog.
Here is the top 10 list, with selected commentary from Backstrom on the jump:
1: HMU
2: World Cup
3: Movies
4: iPad and iPhone 4
5: Haiti
7: Games on Facebook
8: Mineros/Miners
9: Airplanes
10: 2011
YouTube released its top 10 lists of most-watched videos globally excluding content from major music labels, and most-watched major-label music videos, and the lists were topped by BED INTRUDER SONG!!! and Justin Bieber‘s Baby (featuring Ludacris), respectively.
The Google-owned video site also released its month-by-month list of the most-searched terms, through November.
The lists, from the YouTube Blog, with commentary, follow after the jump:
Twitter analyzed the approximately 25 billion Tweets sent so far in 2010 and found that BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the top trend for the year. The complete list, from the Twitter Blog:
1: Gulf oil spill
2: FIFA World Cup
3: Inception
4: Haiti earthquake
5: vuvuzela
6: Apple iPad
7: Google Android
9: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10: Pulpo Paul
Billboard is known for its charts, and the 116-year-old music publication added to its arsenal with Social 50, which tracks the popularity of artists based on social media, CNET reported.
Social 50 uses Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, iLike, and YouTube, and determines its rankings by follower or fan additions and departures, page views, and song plays, according to CNET.
The top five this week were Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Eminem, Lady Gaga, and Nicki Minaj.
Billboard chart director Silvio Pietroluongo said in a statement that the goal of the new chart is to offer information about “the artists that music fans engage with the most in the social arena, which, in today’s world, is a significant validation of their investment in an act.”
Bloggers were focused on the upcoming midterm elections during the week of Oct. 4-8, while Twitter users used Twitter to talk about Twitter, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was A fake news video from the Onion News Network saying that Justin Bieber is a pedophile, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
The most-shared news links by bloggers were tied to two items from The Washington Post, one about interest groups spending far more during this election cycle than in 2008, and the other on how the political landscape remains strongly tilted toward Republicans. They were followed by: a story from the Los Angeles Times on how more than $69 million in California welfare money was spent outside the state in recent years, at 12 percent; an op-ed in USA Today by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) saying that tea party populism is driven by anger at the government and divides the country, at 11 percent; another USA Today story about $162 million in stimulus spending not disclosed by the government, also at 11 percent; and a column in The Washington Post by Steven Pearlstein in which he argued that Republicans ignore the idea that income inequality exists in the country in their “Pledge to America,” at 10 percent.
