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Twitter prices its initial public offering at $26 a share
Twitter will begin selling shares of its stock at $26 per share, the company said Wednesday, which is in the range that had been expected. The company will offer 70 million shares of its common...
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The Twitter IPO explained
Confused by the circus around America's latest Silicon Valley crush? Here's your guide to how public offerings work
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This Guy Pretends He Invented Twitter
When the inevitable Twitter movie inevitably beams into theaters, no one will play Dom Sagolla. It's not because he doesn't want to be part of the story: for the past several years, he's toured the world as a self-proclaimed inventor of Twitter. He's not. So why hasn't anyone ever called him out?
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The Hidden Technology That Makes Twitter Huge
Consider the tweet. It’s short—140 characters and done—but hardly simple. If you open one up and look inside, you’ll see a remarkable clockwork, with 31 publicly documented data fields. Why do these tweets, typically born of a stray impulse, need to carry all this data with them?
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This Is How Much Money Twitter Owes You
Want to know if your Twitter feed produces enough value to retire? Enter your username to find out
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Why Didn't Tumblr Turn Out More Like Twitter?
Twitter was founded in March 2006. Tumblr was created in February 2007. Twitter has 230 million monthly active users, 53 million of them in the U.S. Tumblr is thought to be within an order of magnitude of that — between 30 million and 50 million actives, plus more than 300 million unique visitors. The two even share some DNA: Tumblr founder David Karp says Twitter borrowed the concept of the retweet from an action on his platform, the reblog.
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Twitter IPO: why the wrong people ended up with the money
Aditya Chakrabortty: If you think the social media company's stockmarket flotation is an advert for starting your own hi-tech company, just look at what happened to the founders
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Spike Lee Sued Over George Zimmerman Tweets
Spike Lee has been sued by an elderly couple in Florida, whose address he incorrectly identified as the home of Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman, according to court documents obtained by the Smoking Gun.
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The New Digital Divide: Privilege, Misinformation and Outright B.S. in Modern Media
Tech folks have long beat the same drum. Yes, the internet is often embarrassingly, comically and dangerously wrong, they say, but if you know how to separate the good from the bad, it all works out.
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Kellogg’s apologizes for promise to feed hungry kids in exchange for retweets
Kellogg’s has apologized for a social media post that implied it would feed hungry children only if others helped promote their marketing campaign.
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The Rise of Twitter Bots
Twitter bots are, essentially, computer programs that tweet of their own accord. While people access Twitter through its Web site and other clients, bots connect directly to the Twitter mainline, parsing the information in real time and posting at will; it’s a code-to-code connection, made possible by Twitter’s wide-open application programming interface, or A.P.I.
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Someone Needs To Tell Martha Stewart Her Food Tweets Are Disgusting
Domestic goddess Martha Stewart is grossing people out on Twitter with her ugly-looking food. Warning: Gross food photography ahead.
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Taliban And NATO War on Twitter
As NATO forces prepare to leave Afghanistan, the group is waging a battle for the hearts and minds of Afghan youth—and it’s spilling onto social media.
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Alleged Killer Kayla Mendoza Tweets "2 Drunk 2 Care" Before Causing Horrific Accident
On Saturday night, hours before authorities say 20-year-old Kayla Mendoza pulled her Hyundai Sonata onto the Sawgrass Expressway going the wrong way and crashed into a 2012 Toyota Camry, killing the two passengers inside, she tweeted "2 drunk 2 care," her Twitter feed shows.
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Ashton Kutcher Gets in Heated Twitter War with Walmart
Ashton Kutcher faced off with retail giant Walmart in a vigorous debate on Twitter over their notoriously low wages earlier today. Kutcher initiated the battle by tweeting about the disheartening news of an Ohio Walmart that took up an employee-to-employee food charity collection “so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.”
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Twitter Uses Forward Secrecy Technology for Encryption
Twitter Inc. said it has stepped up encryption of its service, in the latest effort by a technology company to beef up security following reports of spying on digital content by the National Security Agency.
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Photographer wins $1.2 mln from companies that took pics off Twitter
A federal jury on Friday ordered two media companies to pay $1.2 million to a freelance photojournalist for their unauthorized use of photographs he posted to Twitter. The jury found that Agence France-Presse and Getty Images willfully violated the Copyright Act when they used photos Daniel Morel took in his native Haiti after the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people, Morel's lawyer, Joseph Baio, said.
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T-Mobile and AT&T went head-to-head on Twitter over a customer… T-Mobile won
Conversations like this one are what makes Twitter an amazing service. If you considered switching your mobile operator in the past, you might chat with friends or family about it ...
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South Korean intelligence accused of spreading 1.2 million tweets to sway elections
Prosecutors say National Intelligence Service used Twitter to smear opponents of President Park Geun-hye
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Colorado Flooding Photos: 50 Twitter Pics Show The Devastating Damage Around The State
For three consecutive days, Coloradans have been besieged by flash flooding, mudslides, floating debris and evacuations. At least four people have died, and as of Thursday morning, 80 have been reported "unaccounted for" and countless structural damages have been reported.
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