If you fired up the ol' Twitter machine on Sunday night, you probably won't be surprised to see Jimmy Fallon's Emmy Awards nab the number one spot on this week's chart. Not only are award shows a boon for tweet riffers to begin with, but this year's Emmys saw a nice marriage of TV and social media, courtesy of the ...
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More than just powder will be coating the mountains and chair lifts at Vail Resorts this fall. The Colorado-based company has unveiled a new social gaming app for its 2010-2011 ski and snowboard season that allows visitors to track their activities and share them with their friends and family -- all via radio frequency (RF)-enabled chips embedded in their season ...
Did you have a good weekend? Well, Foursquare sure did!That and other news can be found in this roundup of stories you might have missed on account of enjoying time off with family or friends. We want to make sure you don't pass over important news and resources, so we collect them each Monday — take it all in with ...
After a number of weeks bouncing around the middle of the Twitter trends chart, football has dribbled its way back to the number one spot for the first time since the end of the World Cup.The rest of this week's top trends are a mixed bag of politics and entertainment. Major elections in Brazil and Australia had the twitterverse heated ...
Entertainment -- of the U.S. and international varieties -- takes home the Twitter gold this week, in what was a fairly stable list of trends.The new comic book-inspired film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, starring Michael Cera, jumped from #4 last week, to #1 this week, despite modest returns at the box office. Long-time TwitterTwitter trend Inception sank to #4, ...
If you think teens aren't a chatty demographic on Twitter, think again. We've seen many teen culture trends hit the top of the charts over the last few months, and this week, Fox's Teen Choice Awards dethroned Inception, which had carried the top spot for nearly a month.The explosion of chatter from the World Cup seems to have left its ...
Entertainment takes the trophy home again this week, as Twitter was awash in updates about movies, music, and sport.The Leo DiCaprio film Inception took the top spot for the third week in a row, followed closely by some hubbub around the Harry Potterharry potter franchise, and a lip syncing viral YouTubeYouTube sensation from Indonesia.For the full details, check out the ...
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (staring the palpably handsome Leonardo DiCaprio) nabs the top of the Twitter talk chart for the second week in a row.What else is up in the Twitterverse? Talk to Brazilians. Their tweets about football, celebrity gossip, and Sylvester Stallone's off-handed comments at Comic-Con took home the lion's share of the trends this week.Check out ...
Following in the footsteps of the New England Patriots, who recently employed SCVNGR to get fans involved in location-based, pre-season festivities, the Minnesota Vikings will be treating their fans to a training camp trek hosted on the platform.Mankato, Minnesota, is the home of the Vikings for the duration of training camp. To celebrate the upcoming season, the Greater Mankato Convention ...
The vice grip of the World Cup has loosened after five straight weeks on top, and given way to a real mixed bag of Twitter trends.Taking the cake this week is the psychological sci-fi thriller Inception, which left many tweeters raving and head scratching at the same time. Music, notes from the news, and TV populate the rest of the ...
This week's chart was dominated by the sports world. From the conclusion of the World Cup to blockbuster Major League Baseball trades to the continuation of a hot NBA free agency season and the death of an American baseball icon, sports were on everybody's minds this week on Twitter. Even sports side show stories like Paul the Octopus got ...
The New England Patriots are kicking off their 2010 season with a well-choreographed social media play designed to get fans engaged in a digital way. The team has used SCVNGR to build a "Help Vince" trek that tasks fans to hit the streets to find lineman Vince Wilfork's 2004 Super Bowl ring.The "Help Vince" trek involves 200+ places that players ...
For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable's 2010 World Cup Hub.Only now that the World Cup has ended can we truly look back and appreciate how massive the event was.The World Cup created a lot of jaw-dropping numbers and even set a few records on the Internet this go around, from the astounding 3,282 tweets per second sent following ...
For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable's 2010 World Cup Hub, which will be updated throughout the games.It seems that throughout the World Cup tournament, the most vocal tweeters have been from South America. Many of the top trending phrases, like Gano Hollanda and Alemania, have been in Portuguese and Spanish, and rarely have these languages been absent ...
The LeBron James Twitter saga continues! Although we now know that James won’t announce “the decision” first on Twitter, he is integrating the microblogging platform -– and his massively growing following -- into his ESPN special (titled The Decision), which airs tonight at 9 p.m. ET.James tweeted this morning that he will be answering questions from fans during the ...
This morning, news began to spread that Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade was staying with his current team – the latest twist in the NBA free agency story that is increasingly playing out through social media channels.Wade has since directed his Twitter followers to a YouTubeYouTube video that confirms the news and explains his decision to fans. In the ...
His Majesty cannot be stopped, at least on Twitter. In just seven hours, NBA superstar LeBron James' Twitter account has surpassed 150,000 followers, outpacing the growth of other famous figures on Twitter, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates.This morning, New Orleans Hornets' point guard Chris Paul tweeted that James had joined TwitterTwitter under the username @KingJames. Since then, James ...
Looking for tools to help you follow the 2010 Tour de France? Microsoft has built an app for Bing Maps that visualizes the various stages of the race and provides information like weather and results.You can see the routes the cyclists are taking on the map, including important points like the beginnings and ends of stages. Weather forecasts, distances and ...
For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable's 2010 World Cup Hub, which will be updated throughout the games.This past week of World Cup action saw the last four games of the First Round and the completion of the entire Second Round of play. Fewer teams remain, but TwitterTwitter is still full of buzz and excitement.Based on Twitter Trends, ...