Monday, March 8, 2010

 

U.S. Postal service looking to end Saturday deliveries.

Having lost $3.8 billions dollars last year, the U.S Postal Service is looking for ways to cut its deficit and among the ideas kicked around is the elimination of the Saturday mail deliveries.
But the U.S. Postal Service said don't worry, they just upgraded their Twitter account, so you can follow them even on Saturdays.

For more, see Washingtonpost.com

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

 

A new WI-FI scale will tweet your body weight.

One of the lattest products trying to cashing in Twitter popularity, is a WI-FI scale called Withings Wifi Body Scale that will automatically tweet your weight to all your followers.
It is safe to say that people owning that scale have as friends, mainly all the fast food chains of America.

For more, see Digg.com

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger's plane made an emergency landing.

A plane carrying California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an emergency landing Friday evening after the cockpit filled with smoke.
Words of the incident came from Schwarzenegger himself in the form of a tweet that read : "A little adventure just now when my plane made an emergency landing. All's OK, though."
I think the real adventure here was to learn that the governor is on Twitter.


For more, see CNN.com

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Monday, April 20, 2009

 

Oprah joins Twitter

This past Friday, Oprah Winfield became the latest celebrity joining Twitter's fray sending her first tweet or message to her followers.
She then turned around and gave away a coffee maker that automatically sends a twitt every time you turn it on, to every member of her audience.

For more see, NYTimes.com

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Monday, November 24, 2008

 

Online rage forces Johnson&Johnson to pull Motrin Ad.

This past week, health-care giant Johnson & Johnson yanked a multimedia ads campaign of its over the counter pain reliever Motrin after a flurry of protests all across the Internet. The ad was geared toward mothers who supposedly get back pain from carrying their babies in slings. Protesters used blogs, YouTube, Twitter and others social-media sites to voice their anger to what they called a trivialization of women's pain and the way they carry their babies.
Boy, a not so family company.

Original Story in USAToday.com

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