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The 2010 UK election, announced today by prime minister Gordon Brown, marks the first time that Twitter has been in widespread use in the UK during a political campaign. In order to track UK political trends on the popular social networking tool, Reuters commissioned market research agency Crimson Hexagon to analyze what people were saying about politics on Twitter. While they turned up some pretty graphs, they also outlined some interesting facts. Most notable was the fact that UK politico traffic on Twitter could be trended from week to week, with strong anti-Tory sentiment showing as constant…

I’m a total freak for Twitter. It’s the greatest thing to happen to the internet in ages, and I wish I had it on me at all times. I’d get an iPhone app, but the hell if I’m paying an iPhone-sized monthly bill. Fortunately for me, the designers at Tokyoflash are working on an alternative concept that will rock your socks into another dimension. I’d like to have a romantic relationship with this watch. Check it out: we’ve got three modes: microblogging, which can display your twitter and Facebook contacts’ status updates, world clock, which can give you the skinny on what’s the when…

You know, Twitter can do a lot of things: it tells you what the world is thinking and, similarly, lets you tell the world what’s on your mind. But now you can add a new feature to that list: predicting the future. At least, that’s the word out of HP’s The Social Computing Lab in Palo Alto. After studying the relationship between tweets and box-office revenue for movies, they discovered that Twitter was a better predictor of success for a film that standard industry research tools. Just as fascinating as the results are how they were obtained: the team used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, which employs…

With the anticipated release of Apple’s iPad, development companies have been in quite the rush to release apps for it. Well, put your worries of no Twitter app to rest. Twitepad, an app released from InfoXenter has been approved by Apple and is one of the first Twitter clients scheduled to be released on Saturday April 3rd. This app allows for multiple twitter accounts to be used at the same time as well as they intergrated a web browser in Twitepad. What does an intergrated web browser mean? We integrated a webbrowser into Twitepad, so you can look at the articles your friends tweet. But we didn’t…

Doing its best to keep it real as Facebook and Twitter grab the Zeitgeist, Digg today introduces its all-new iPhone App. Digg founder and CEO, Kevin Rose, hinted at the new software last year, now we learn it offers a deep user experience including support for browsing popular, upcoming, and recent stories across topics. You also get to Digg and bury stories using the app on your iPhone….

Uh oh. It would seem that the popular crowd at Twitter does not like to share. ReadWriteWeb has conducted some amazing in-depth research about Twitter, and the numbers tell quite the story. We now understood that approximately 30% of top Twitter influencers don’t retweet. They did this by analyzing 485 accounts that rank highest on Twitter Lists. …

Many sporting organizations have been well known for their resistance to new media and Web-based technologies; however, times are quickly changing. The NBA and Turner Sports (a broadcaster for the NBA) are teaming up to offer new technologies like live streaming chats, mobile updates, and live Twitter updates. …

Break out the cake and the candles, March 21st is Twitter’s 4th birthday.Yes, that means Twitter is an Aries. …

Plants that tweet when they need water? That’s so two years ago, man. No, the future is a much more exciting place where, as this video shows, a robot can snap a picture, upload it to Twitpic and then tell the world all about it on Twitter, simply by using a touch sensor attached to its front. What’s more, the whole thing is controlled by Nokia’s latest smartphone, the N900. It’s a brave new world, people….

Twitter has announced a new plan to become as pervasive as the Web itself, opening up its @anywhere tech which aims to integrate Twitter into the very fabric of the ‘Net. @anywhere will let people using websites to follow new users or share media directly from the page. It is similar to Facebook Connect in that users will be able to log into websites using their Twitter ID. “Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo home page,” Twitter said on its blog….