Although Telstra has taken the plunge into Twitter, using the tool to monitor service outages and contact customers about support issues, major broadband rivals Optus, Internode and iiNet have no immediate plans to follow Telstra's lead.
Australia's largest internet service provider, Telstra's BigPond, yesterday launched an online support channel that uses the increasingly popular Twitter micro-blogging service.
Someone this afternoon briefly started using the Twitter micro-blogging service to impersonate newly ousted NSW State Premier Morris Iemma; and the results were hilarious.
Australian and European users of Twitter can no longer receive text message updates on their mobile phones, in a temporary move designed to keep the start-up's telecom bills down.
Barack Obama has just overtaken Digg founder Kevin Rose's spot as the most followed person on Twitter, according to Twitterholic.
Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney".
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It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service.
An online video start-up launched by three Australian entrepreneurs (including,apparently, an old acquaintance of mine from university) has been bought by Google subsidiary YouTube for a reported US$15 million.
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