Twitter has been doing some expanding lately. First, a couple of days ago, it bought the Tweetie app with the intentions of making it free and re-branding it as the Official Twitter Application. While this came as a shocking blow to the Twitter app developers, it also shown a little light as to how Twitter more »

How ironic: LinkedIn – indeed any social network – is all about making a connection. Yet thanks to the blizzard of coverage generated by the professional-themed network’s new $53 million-dollar round of funding, all I saw when I first tried to get on LinkedIn were error messages saying “connection interrupted” (Firefox) or “the server unexpectedly dropped the connection, which sometimes occurs when the server is busy” (Safari).

Yep, a New York Times story and ton of links on top content aggregators like Techmeme will do that to you.