There is too much ReTweeting going on on Twitter. I agree. Some of my friends had a bit of fun with this last night.

Along with the Twestival events of over 175 cities across the globe this Thursday, 12th February, Belfast will be hosting its own event with a small but passionate bunch in support of Charity:Water. The event is being held in Lavery’s Bunker, who have kindly given the venue for free and allowed all door takings for [...]

Venue = Black Box Lavery’s Bunker, Bradbury Place. Rock Band. Drinks. Prizes. Fun times. And more. If you are on Twitter, and in Northern Ireland on 12th February, then come along to BelfastTwestival. It’s always fun to meet those you follow or chat to online, and there are have been many new N.I. Tweeters over [...]

The story starts with me, last Wednesday accidentally deleting my Music folder, rather than a single folder within that folder. Then, as I often to due to being constantly so low on space, emptied the trash. It was while the contents of the folder where disappearing – that I suddenly realised and cancelled before more [...]

If there is a prize for the most votes then dirty tactics will always be used – The Shorty Awards are no exception. Friend, blogger and twitter user (read: addict) John Williams (@mcawilliams) has made it into the final of the Shorty Awards – a competition designed to recognise those who bring usefulness, value and [...]

Why the Ghostbusters of course! This is the conversation that took place on Twitter just a short while ago. Most fun use of Twitter.

The controversial web-app, Qwitter (not that Qwitter), was released on Friday by Contrast to fulfill our own curiosity about losing followers on Twitter. For those who don’t know, Twitter works in a way where by users ‘follow’ other users, news sources, celebrities, people of similar interests, friends etc. What they say shows up on your [...]

Stephen Fry, the legendary geek, journalist, writer, comedian, blogger, traveller, tv presenter; a general mass of talent and intellect – has joined Twitter. In the last 7 days he has amassed 5,749 followers as the wave of “Stephen Fry is on Twitter!” spreads across the web, with many of the Irish twits grateful of reciprocated [...]

For those unaware, Twitter is the latest social networking phenomenon. The main difference between it and any other social tool is that it’s based around what you say, in 140 characters, rather than how pretty your profile, your vast array of cool bands you like or all those super arty movies you like plus a [...]

When I first heard of Twitter I thought it was so totally ridiculous. Sending and receiving txt messages is not new. It’s distinctly old technology. So I signed up. After receiving some useless messages from some people I had added – the sort of messages that said, “Just got the kids to bed, now gonna [...]