Twitter has begun making changes to its website today. Twitter’s search feature has been improved to display more tweets that may matter to you. This feature has also been extended to trending topics as well. Also, the search results will include the top images and videos based on whatever you searched for. For example, Marilyn Monroe is a trending topic today. After clicking on the trending topic link or entering her name into the search box, you’ll see “top images” and “top videos” to the right of the page. You’ll be able to view all the top photos in a separate browser tab.

Verizon Wireless has announced that it will throttle 5% of its users. Boom. The top 5% of data consumers will see their speed diminish not just for the remainder of the billing cycle but for the next month as well. Take that heavy-use customers. 5% of Verizon’s 94 million users is 4.7 million. Heads up: more »

Love peppering your Facebook page with photos but hate the one at a time upload system? It seems the folks at Facebook have heard your cry because now they’ve opened up a new route for you to post your images. Now you can simply email photos and video to your customized email upload address and begin adding to your mobile image collection.

Fans of YouTube should be happy, since they have just doubled the size of uploads for users from 1GB to 2GB. The change counts for regular account holders, no fancy account status needed. According to the company, the increase is to compensate for users’ HD uploads. This is a pretty nice move on their part more »

If you go onto YouTube today you may notice something different and although you may be a regular visitor, you could still not notice for half an hour like me. If you don’t want me to spoil it for you (assuming you didn’t read the title of this post) run off to www.youtube.com and see if you can spot anything different, but for those who don’t like a challenge, who are lazy, or never go on YouTube here it is…

YouTube has finally gone widescreen.