The micro blogging service Twitter will no longer deliver updates to UK users over the mobile network.

You can still update twitter from your mobile (as are paying the sms fee) but the real time updates will  now stop.

It seems it comes down to cost and Twitter can no longer afford the fee’s the UK based mobile companies want.

The service in America is unaffected.

I have actually started using Twitter not to publish but to keep tabs on people in tech and have found it pretty useful.

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The FT this morning reports that a businessman has been awarded £22k in damages from a former school friend who created a fake profile of him on Facebook.

This is a judgement that could have some far reaching consequences in the social networking world.

Link: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c12423a8-59e3-11dd-90f8-000077b07658.html

A Tweet is 140 character message on the twitter.com service.

Twitter is like sms blogging, short and sweet.

Dell have reportedly sold over $500,000 worth of equipment via twitter vouchers. They are now actively publishing voucher codes for discounts on Dell equipment via tweets.

Tip: You don’t have to have a free twitter account to see the discount vouchers, but it would make it easier to keep up to date.

Link: http://twitter.com/DellSmBizOffers

I could have titled this post “What your I.T staff do when your not looking“. Only kidding here is the latest research about how I.T Professionals use Social Networking.

The research study was carried out in November 2007 with 393 respondents.

This should be of interest to anyone interested in how people use social media.

Some of the topics covered:-

Which networks,  behaviour, identity, negative impact, managing communities, impact and effect.

Link: view the full results here

Mix07 is the name of an event run by Microsoft showcasing all the latest in web technology.

It starts today and runs for 72 hours.

This is the second year the event has run.

Check out this link to find out more. You can view the keynotes and demo’s.

http://visitmix.com/

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