Twitter @anywhere

Twitter announced their @anywhere service at SXSW which will aim to intergrate twitter with web sites.

Building on the early goals of twitter the @anywhere service will extract and connect information and people in real time from external websites.

The twitter platform has evolved to support conversation between netizens that are part of a strong social network. These networks have allowed individuals with similar interests to interact with each other in real time and share discourse, information and hypertext. This is something which twitter can go far beyond with the roll out of @anywhere.

This extension of the API will allow users to add twitter to different contexts, extending twitter to more places and connecting news, artists and users in a real time.

Biz Stone commented on the twitter blog, "With @anywhere, web site owners and operators will be able to offer visitors more value with less heavy lifting."

People will be able to connect to each other and share information and conversation aiding better decsisions. You can find out what is happening in the world that you care about, connecting to the people that care about the same things.

Watch Evan Williams, Twitter's CEO, introduce @anywhere at SXSW2010

In the future intergrating with media sites will allow audiences to collate news as and when it happens. Headlines can be sent out via twitter, but @anywhere will also allow the gathering of information via twitter.

Stone commented further, "When we're ready to launch, imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo home page -and that's just the beginning."


Read more about @anywhere on the twitter blog

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Piracy & Lily Allen.

Lily has gained a strong online social network, and is not afraid to use it.

Forever tweetin' her whereabouts, insights into her appreciation for the England cricket team or winding up Chris Moyles, "I suggest we start calling him tedious Dave as he spends far more time doing his aptly named link than being funny".


Lily has racked up over 1 Million followers on Twitter, directing them through her tweets to see her view on the recent dispute about P2P music file sharing.

Lily Allen, equiped with her online status and a GQ shoot, gained an impressive 14 thousand profile views whilst actively blogging about the issue.

A month on and her blog has closed, "I have shut down the blog it is getting too much". Leaving influential breadcrumbs in the social sphere.

Lily's constant tweets and her ability to network with the right people, both on and offline drove a meeting on the controversial subject to be held in London after much attention from netizens and fellow web savvy celebrities.

Tweeting mid morning on 24 September that "there is a meeting today in London where artists are meeting to discuss Piracy. My job done." It is fair to say that Lily has used social media to it's full potential, birthing a policy meeting via an online conversational networking platform.