Daniel Ionescu

Micro-blogging service Twitter says it is working on a new tool to help you “retweet.” Retweeting is jargon for re-posting something posted (or tweeted) by another user. Retweeting typically gives credit to the original poster. In offering this feature Twitter is just playing catch-up to what 3rd party apps already do.

Reposting or retweeting a mesage you like on Twitter.com can only be done via cutting and pasting the tweet and then adding attribution (such as RT: @username) at the beginning or the end of the post. But now Twitter is working on a new method to repost tweets on its online interface that will show in your friend’s timeline only the original message you retweeted. [Read article]

Merely hours after acquiring FriendFeed, Facebook is now rolling out an improved real-time search product for all of the social network’s users. The new Facebook search will deliver results from your friends’ status updates, photos, link and videos.

Facebook has been testing its improved search enginesince June on a limited number of users. And as of today, real-time search is available to all of the social network’s 250+ million users, the company announced on its blog. [Read article]

Having trouble logging onto AIM? You’re not alone. At about 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, users of the AOL instant messaging service started experiencing problems with the service. And where to turn? Twitter. But another surprise awaited anyone who migrated there. [Read article]