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Twitter to be available on mobile phones without Internet
Twitter Inc is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet. U2opia Mobile, which has a similar tie-up with Facebook Inc, will launch its Twitter service in the first quarter of next year, Chief Executive and Co-founder Sumesh Menon told Reuters.
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Twitter's Promoted Trends Ad Product Isn't Very Popular Among Advertisers
Twitter's Promoted Trends ad product, which has received significant attention since its debut, accounted for less than 10% of the company's revenue in the second quarter, according to an SEC filing uncovered by TechCrunch.
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Twitter named the best place to work in tech for 2014
The social media site debuted on Glassdoor’s list at No. 1, while Facebook falls to third.
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George H.W. Bush Is Third U.S. President to Join Twitter
George Herbert Walker Bush posted his first tweet on Tuesday, becoming the third U.S. president — and the first Republican president — to join Twitter. Bush Sr. seems to have beaten his son, George W. Bush, to the service. The second President Bush does have a presence on Twitter via his Presidential Library, alongside several parody accounts, but no personal account.
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The Internet history of the showerbeer
As far as I can tell, the showerbeer is as old as showering itself, a tradition passed on from generation to generation like a folk remedy or a secret recipe. Family legend suggests my grandma enjoyed a brew in the bath (although now I think my dad was just fucking with me—see right).
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What Tech Hasn’t Learned From Urban Planning
The tech sector is, increasingly, embracing the language of urban planning — town hall, public square, civic hackathons, community engagement. So why are tech companies such bad urbanists?
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Why adding a feature to edit tweets after the fact might not be such a good thing
According to one report, Twitter is considering a new feature that would allow users to edit a tweet after it has been published. But is that really something we need, or are we better off without it?
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Y&R Copywriter in Indonesia Dies After Tweet About Overwork
On Saturday, young Y&R Indonesia copywriter Mita Diran posted a complaint on Twitter: "30 hours of working and still going strooong." Soon afterward she collapsed. She died the following day.
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Twitter Doyenne Jenny Johnson On How to Eat Without Ever Cooking
The hilarious Johnson, a former Texas news producer, rose to fame on Twitter for her acerbic wit and is now working full time as comedy writer in L.A.. The fact that she's cooking-averse and spends most of her days working at home on an upcoming book and television pilot, snacking away on popcorn and candy (Starbursts are her weakness), only made us all the more interested in her eating habits.
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The NSA’s PR team finally gets its own Twitter account
After months of controversy stemming from the Edward Snowden leaks, the National Security Agency has finally stopped using its job-board Twitter account as its official mouthpiece. The NSA now operates an @NSA_PAO account that appears, at first glance, to be legitimate. It's followed by the verified account belonging to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is the agency that oversees the NSA after the Pentagon.
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It's a Lonely World: The Median Twitter User Has 1 Measly Follower
The median Twitter account has only one follower. That’s what Jon Bruner, a data journalist at O’Reilly Radar, found when he algorithmically queried the service about its users at random this fall. But then again, the median Twitter account doesn’t tweet that much, because a huge number of accounts on the service were created and left unused. So if you only include accounts that have tweeted in the past month, the median user has 61 followers.
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PR director no longer with company after racist tweet
It was the tweet that took twitter by storm
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Why Did BuzzFeed & Co. Target Justine Sacco for Online Assassination
Maybe BuzzFeed and its sorry band of elite media minions chose Sacco to send an intimidating message that says no one is safe from their speech rules, even nobodies with 174 Twitter followers. Randomly pulling people from their online homes as an example to the rest of us, is certainly going to have a chilling effect. But maybe it was a targeted hit based on a personal grudge or agenda we will never know about.
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How to stop Twitter from manipulating you
Twitter has recently started showing 'Tailored Ads' which are targeted especially at you. It means Twitter will show you ads about products which you're interested in. The good thing is that we can turn off these 'tailored ads' and stop them from bothering you..
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The top 10 social media fails of 2013
The worst mistakes committed by companies, celebs and politicians and what we learnt from them
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Sharks “Tweet” Their Location to Aussie Beachgoers
For Australian swimmers and surfers, checking Twitter before taking a dip could be a lifesaver. Surf Life Saving Western Australia (@SLSWA), a volunteer-based association providing beach safety education and emergency rescue services, recently implemented a system that posts live tweets from more than 320 resident sharks. The updates – which include the shark’s species and approximate location – allow beachgoers to steer clear of areas with a high frequency of activity.
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Teen Posts Joke on Twitter, Internet Orders Her to Kill Herself
On January 1st, Twitter user Safiyyah Nawaz started a joke, which started the whole world crying for her head on a silver platter.
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Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Explains The Surprising Goal Of His New Company, Jelly
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone revealed his top-secret new startup Jelly, a mobile app that enables users to ask short questions of their social network through pictures. For instance, Stone snapped a photo of an art piece in San Francisco, asked his network what it was, and got a few dozen answers.
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Its official, if you tweet a lot you're most likely a narcissist
New research provides evidence that narcissism, and the resultant need for admiration, drives tweeting.
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Twitter Is Working On A Deal With Stripe That Could Potentially Allow E-Commerce Tweet
Eric Gaillard/ReutersTwitter and Stripe are in the final stages of a deal that would allow users to purchase products directly on the social network using
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