The blogosphere was literally split down the middle in terms of online buzz around the 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Both Avatar and The Hurt Locker each maxed out with three quarters of a percent (.75%) of blog post buzz across the web. The data in question comes from The Nielsen …

While the news of Simon Cowell leaving American Idol didn’t break on Twitter first, it certainly caused a flurry of Twitter reactions from die-hard show fans and Idol non-supporters alike. Crimson Hexagon looked at the sentiment of 1,500 opinion tweets (news and non-opinion tweets were filtered out) this afternoon…

Sandwiched in between monumental feature releases like Twitter Lists and the geolocation API has been Twitter’s most controversial feature yet: native support of retweets. The official rollout of the new retweet functionality started earlier in the month, which CEO Evan Williams felt compelled to explain in detail. Now, however, the…

The official Twitter Retweet rollout started last week, but yesterday Twitter ramped up the rollout process in order to give more Twitter users the native retweet feature. The semi-controversial new feature started popping up everywhere, and CEO Evan Williams took to his own blog to explain the why and the how behind …

Television and film star Zach Braff, is not dead, despite the ongoing rumors to the contrary that circulated via Twitter and Facebook yesterday. Apparently prankster Chris Laganella (who has since apologized ), thought a web page spoof that he created back in 2007 about Braff being dead would go unnoticed by all …

When Paula Abdul broke the news — by way of Twitter — that she was leaving American Idol, it wasn’t exactly well received by diehard show fans. Fan reaction and questions over FOX’s decision-making became hot topics for blogs and entertainment shows, some wondering if the show had alienated…

What time is it? Time for the Lunchtime Poll , that’s what! If you’ve been following along already, you’ll know how this works. We throw out a poll question, start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable, and ask you fine folks to answer in the comments. Read…

There are a ton of ways to rank and share music via the ubiquitous microblogging platform Twitter – the best ones can be found in our recent post, 10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter . Since so much music is shared on the microblogging service, it’s possible to use this data to figure out which…

You may know CoTweet as the Twitter CRM tool used by BestBuy, JetBlue, and Ford, and if you’re a business Twitter user with multiple people managing multiple accounts , then you’ve probably been dying to try it. Now you can. Today CoTweet, formerly open to just a select group of companies, is …