September 19th, 2011 
Omar Khan Twitter workaround blocked by governmentThis is an update to my previous post about a server workaround which granted access to Twitter in China. The workaround has been effectively blocked by the government and is no longer working. I tested the link and below are the test results:
September 15th, 2011 Omar Khan A Chinese user has discovered a workaround to access Twitter from within China where it has been blocked since 2009 by the government. Twitter has been blocked since June 2009 and the users in China are using their local versions called Sina and Tencent with a combined 300 million registered users.
September 4th, 2011 Omar Khan Twitter has added a “Post Tweets to Facebook” button in its user profile section that will allow users to easily link their Twitter account to Facebook account. Clicking the button will ask you to enter your Facebook credentials and link the two accounts allowing tweets to be posted to Facebook as status updates.
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Tags: Facebook, Post Tweet to Facebook, Social Media, Social Networks, Twitter 
No Comments » July 6th, 2011 Omar Khan Twitter has acquired social analytics firm BackType. BackType helps firms analyse the reach for their twitter content and make smarter marketing decisions. The firm gets information like who they are reaching, how their tweets are converting to web traffic and understand and develop sales and KPI’s. BackType will be joining the Twitter platform team where they [...]
February 24th, 2010 Omar Khan It’s finally happened, Twitter has partnered with Yahoo as part of a content sharing deal. So now the Yahoo-Twitter partnership details are in which were as of yet still vague.
February 16th, 2010 Omar Khan The social media world and their networks have become so intern-twined that its getting harder to keep track of all the places to visit and stay updated. Integration has become key in this day and age and now it is possible to link your Facebook & Twitter accounts amongst others to your GMail. Alright, Since everything is being integrated into everything else, why should GMail be left behind especially when it offers such great integration support. Behold the simple procedure to integrate Twitter & Facebook into GMail!
Posted in Facebook, Social Media, Tips, Twitter Tags: Facebook, Gadgets, Gmail, Google, Google Labs, Twitter 1 Comment » February 6th, 2010 Omar Khan Straight from the Twitter blog by their research team which posted the most discussed topics in 2009. This is what a researcher from Twitter had to say: Among all the keywords, hashtags, and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly. Twitter users found the Iranian elections the most engaging topic of the [...]
Posted in Social Media, Twitter Tags: 2009, Iranelection, Musicmonday, Trending, Twitter No Comments » February 4th, 2010 Omar Khan Hovercards are the newest feature that Twitter has introduced to make life easier for those who use the web version to read and write tweets. A blog entry on Twitters blog introduced the latest feature where cards appear on the timeline when a user brings their mouse over a username or avatar. These cards are [...]
