In its efforts to increase exposure in the UK, Twitter has just launched a UK-specific blog.

This follows a long list of recent pushes into the UK market, and shows that Twitter is serious about its global expansion. So if you’re a Twitter user in the UK, you can expect a lot more attention from the company in the future.
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As much as it’s about substance, social media is about image, too. Maybe not in the traditional sense, but there are a host of images that people subconsciously associate you and your brand with, and one of these images is your Twitter avatar.
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Underground startup Daps’em is getting some steam, as it now lets anyone “dap” anyone else on Twitter, kind of like giving them a fist-bump of respect. And you can “yay” a “dap” if you like it. Sound fun? Is it something you’d want to do? Or is it just a superfluous waste of time?
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If you’ve ever look at Twitter superstars and sighed, thinking you could never be that interesting, involved and active in just 140 characters at a time, you’re not alone. You’re also not right. You can master Twitter yourself, it just takes a little time.
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Twitter has unveiled another measurement tool for its advertisers: a Followers Dashboard where advertisers can view the interests, location, engagement level and other information about the Twitter users following their accounts.
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When New Twitter came to town in September 2010, many people lamented the fact that Twitter changed the way you retweet. The default on Twitter.com for the past five months has been a static retweet, basically “forwarding” a tweet to your followers rather than enabling you to add to it, comment on it or otherwise edit it. However, if you are HootSuite, a third-party Twitter dashboard, we’ve got a one-click way to bring back the old retweets and give you control of the text of the tweet.
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James Franco has succumbed to the pressure of celebrity and joined Twitter. His rise to national acclaim with his recent film “127 Hours” and its slew of nominations was likely a big factor in his decision to finally sign up for Twitter – and he’s making it very clear that his account is the real deal.
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