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Careless Tweets Cost Lives – MoD in Social Media Warnings

15, Jun 2011

Soldiers of Britain! Do you Tweet? Post Facebook updates? Check in on FourSquare? Well you could be betraying state secrets to the enemy! So say a selection of videos from the Ministry of Defense.  A marketing campaign from the MoD has raised the issue of members of the armed forces using social media sites to [...]

Could Prime Minister’s Question Tweets Be on the Horizon?

25, Mar 2011

A court ruling has already permitted the use of Twitter in the courtroom, but could we be about to see Tweets from the Commons? A committee reporting on the rules MPs follow in the House of Commons has suggested that Members of Parliament should be allowed to use their smartphones and iPads to keep constituents [...]

Egypt Switches off the Web

28, Jan 2011

Egypt disconnects itself from the internet With Google spreading into Iran, you could be excused for thinking that the internet was one step closer to being a truly global phenomenon. But, as with most technologies, it appears to be one step forward and one step back when it comes to people having internet access. Following [...]

Are You Watching What You Tweet?

11, Jan 2011

After the furore of the “Twitter Joke Trial“, you’d imagine that more and more people are being careful about what they post on Twitter. And you’d be right. With one slight exception – professional footballers aren’t watching what they Tweet, and now they’re being forced to pay the price. Following Liverpool’s defeat to Manchester United [...]

Twitter in Trials – Social Networking Service allowed in courts

21, Dec 2010

Unless you’ve had your head buried in a snowdrift for the past few weeks, the chances are that you’ll have heard of Julian Assange. The Wikileaks head honcho has been in court in the UK this month – and a ruling from that trial has just been approved by the Lord Chief Justice for England [...]

Oil Spills, iPads and Justin Bieber – Twitter Trends 2010

17, Dec 2010

Well, we’ve already covered Google and Facebook, so now it’s time to turn to Twitter for the top trends of 2010. The microblogging service is used by millions of users to discuss the minutae of their daily lives, so we can only assume that Twitter’s trending topics algorithm disregards our predicted winner – “I’m having [...]

How to Lose Followers on Twitter

24, Nov 2010

Here at the FirstFound Blog, we’re always sharing advice on how to make the most of your social media accounts. That’s why we’ve written up our Free Social Media Guide and our Social Media Advice for Businesses page. But some people haven’t listened to us. They still make basic errors that leave us with no [...]

It’s UK “Get Online Week”!

18, Oct 2010

Today marks the start of the Get Online campaign, a government initiative to get the nine million UK residents who’ve never used the Internet to log on for the very first time. Running from the 18th to the 24th of October, the Get Online week initiative is aimed at showing the elderly and less well [...]

Greater Manchester Police Swap the Beat for the Tweet

14, Oct 2010

The head of the Greater Manchester Police claims that only a third of the calls his force receives are about genuine crimes. And to prove it, the GMP have set up live Twitter feeds to share 999 calls with the public, as they happen. Unfortunately, by 10am, Twitter had suspended the force’s first account for [...]

#miners #chileanminers #Miners Rescue, oh, and #Paranormal Activity (Sponsored)

13, Oct 2010

The world is holding its breath today as 33 Chilean miners are winched out of the mine they’ve been trapped in since August 5th. And funnily enough, people are chatting about it on Twitter. However, in the most incongruous piece of marketing ever, the “top” trending topic on the site is a sponsored link about [...]


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