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How Twitter’s New DM Will Impact Brand Marketing
As news broke that Twitter is rolling out a new option for its direct message (DM) feature, reactions ranged from indifference to downright panic. A Twitter user reported that Twitter plans to let users opt in to receive DMs from anyone, regardless whether that person follows back or not. Traditionally, two users had to mutually follow each other for DM to work. Now that no longer has to be the case.
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Twitter Likely to Kill Its Music App
Just six months after launching it, Twitter is strongly considering killing off its Twitter #Music mobile application, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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Twitter's Top 5 Accounts Are All in Japan — Here's Why
Japanese Twitter users have set this record many times, most recently on New Years Eve 2013 when the clock struck midnight in Japan and Korea. A separate Japanese broadcasting of Castle in the Sky resulted in the tweets per second record back in 2011 and, during the 2010 World Cup, a Japanese goal during a match against Cameroon resulted in 2,940 tweets per second, a record at the time.
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White House Official Fired for Tweeting Under Fake Name
Jofi Joseph, an official in the National Security Staff at the White House, was fired last week after being caught as the tweeter behind @natsecwonk, a feed that’s been leaking internal information since 2011. Josh Rogin reports.
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Twitter plans to raise $1.4bn in IPO
Twitter is to sell 70 million shares priced between $17 and $20 (£10 - £12) when the company makes its debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
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World's First Tweeting Bra To Raise Breast Cancer Awareness
Technology has elevated the thoughts of a human in every way. A couple of years ago, we could never imagine that a bra can be used to tweet on the social networking website, Twitter. Yes its true, ...
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Tweeting bra: A high-tech bra that tweets each time it is unhooked
With the view to remind women of their monthly breast self-exam and promote breast cancer awareness, Nestle Fitness, with its ad agency Ogilvy Athens, introduced a high-tech, pink bra that automatically sends a tweet each time it is unhooked. The purpose here is to deliver the life-saving message to women.
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Do Teens Really Think Twitter Is 'More Important' Than Facebook?
Teens are abandoning Facebook in droves for Twitter. For many, that was the takeaway from an Oct. 10 Piper Jaffray study of 8,650 teens. That conclusion was false. The study had a much narrower focus than has been reported and only referred to purchasing activity on the platforms.
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Someone on Twitter is Recreating 'Back to the Future' in Real Time
Get ready for some heavy stuff. With almost 50 accounts, 1208 tweets, and countless hashtags and Twitpics, someone on Twitter is reenacting Back to the Future in real time.Yes, we're serious -- and yes, the DeLorean has an account. Created by Gavin Fox, Martin Rose, and Tom Hartshorn
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What suicide notes look like in the social media age
It is natural, if morbid, to try to romanticise death. It’s something we’re all aware will happen, so we soften the blow: we make death into “eternal sleep”. It’s more than a little jarring to this comforting appreciation of the end that there are number of people who limit themselves to a Spartan 140-character limit when they compose their final testament: a Twitter suicide note.
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Y’all Ready for This? The Tweeting Bra is Real
Finally, the newest technological innovation in the world of social undergarments has arrived: The Tweeting Bra!
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Twitter hit with $124 million lawsuit over private stock sale
Twitter Inc was sued for $124 million on Wednesday by two companies claiming the social media darling fraudulently had them organize a private sale of its shares to stoke investor interest for an initial public offering then canceled it.
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Google and Twitter Overhaul Photo Sharing in Combined Assault on Facebook
Facebook got attacked, hard and effectively, from two fronts today. Both Twitter and Google announced new features that compete with Facebook’s killer service: photo sharing. Worse, they attacked it in the very two places it shows weakness: Twitter just made public photo sharing a cornerstone of its experience, while Google+ made sharing with small groups (like your family and select friends) both easier and more effective. All told, it probably wasn’t the best morning in Menlo Park today.
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Bing, Twitter Renew Deal To Include Tweets In Search Results
Bing has announced a renewal of its long-standing deal with Twitter to include tweets in Bing’s search results. The Bing-Twitter partnership began in 2009 and was renewed in 2011. Tweets are primarily available and searchable at Bing’s social search page, bing.com/social, but they’re also showing up in Bing’s main search results.
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What Happens When You Dress As A Boston Marathon Victim And Post It On Twitter
A Michigan woman who posted her bombing victim costume online has apologized after receiving death threats.
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'Bin Laden has won, they confiscated my honey': Outspoken academic Richard Dawkins
World famous English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and unrelenting critic of religion and the religious, Richard Dawkins, has turned his anger on airport security rules after he had a jar of honey confiscated.
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How Twitter has helped the emergence of a new journalism
On average there are now 500m tweets a day. You don’t even have to tweet to be on Twitter. Some 40% of users simply use Twitter as a “curated news feed of updates that reflect their passions”. “News feed” is important because Twitter has clearly changed the way news is gathered, disseminated and consumed.
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8% of Americans Get Their News on Twitter
A new study reveals that 8% of Americans get their news on Twitter — people who are younger, more educated and more mobile than the 30% of Americans who get their news on Facebook. Half of the 16% of U.S. adults who use Twitter get their news on the social network, according to the study, which was published by the Pew Research Center on Monday, the second in a series of studies analyzing the relationship between social media and news.
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Not that many Americans use Twitter, apparently
Good news for publishers and news outlets! Over half of Twitter users use the service as a way to get news. These people also tend to be better educated and on their mobile devices all the time. But here's the bad news: Just 16 percent of U.S. adults are on Twitter at all.
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Twitter’s Founder Feuds, Explained
The 140-character social network has had about that many broken bromances.
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