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Despite Twitter’s lack of a business model, there has been no shortage of sites whose entire reason for living is Twitter.  The latest of these seems to be video for Twitter from sites like Twitvid, though it started back with 12seconds.tv.  Upon first inspection that’s exactly what Nimbb looks to… Continue Reading »

You’ve probably seen something about these services that allow you to buy more followers on Twitter.  They’ve become more than just a small problem on Twitter it seems.  So much so that Twitter, itself, is finally looking to take some action against the pay for followers services. The biggest culprit… Continue Reading »

Download: iPod/iPhone version (mp4) | Audio version (mp3) Get caught up in a hurry with InterrupTech.  You won’t find endless chatter here.  We’ve got a timer to move things along.   This Week: Paypal charges new fees, forgets to tell anyone Facebook Lite leaked Microsoft’s Zune HD gets official Microsoft… Continue Reading »

Twitter went down for a short time Saturday morning for reasons unknown.  They simply called it “unexpected downtime.”  In a blog post the company announced that once again they had to take their API offline as part of the repair process.  This frustrated many developers and users of third party… Continue Reading »

Thousands of night owl Facebook users got a surprise Tuesday night when they logged in and got a message saying they’d been chosen to beta test the new “Facebook Lite,” which was billed as a “faster, simpler” Facebook.  But just as suddenly as the “new” Facebook appeared it vanished, leaving… Continue Reading »

Twitter, the service everyone either loves or hates, has a history of learning from its users and adding new features based on how they use the service.  Neither @replies or hashtags were implemented in the original version of Twitter, but as people started using them they were added as official… Continue Reading »

A new study by Pear Analytics has declared that 40% of Twitter is nothing more than “pointless babble.”  The Texas company sampled 6 hours of Tweets a day for 10 days, gathering 2000 total.  They then analyzed them and placed them into the following categories. . . Continue Reading »

Digsby, the popular IM and social media client, is getting closer to being the only application you need to access the social web.  Digsby has long had Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and LinkedIn as part of the application, and today is looking to improve on all of them.  It also announced… Continue Reading »

Think about your average morning for a moment.  Chances are rather than getting up and going straight to find some sort of breakfast you wake up and head straight for your computer, BlackBerry, iPhone, or any sort of Internet device.  Don’t worry, it turns out you’re not alone in this… Continue Reading »

Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  We cover the Zune HD, Eric Schmidt leaves Apple, the Twitter DDoS, the Pre’s new apps, and RadioShack’s new name. Continue Reading »