It’s that time of week again when we take a look at the latest social media news, and highlight some of the most interesting stories. You couldn’t avoid news of...
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In a move that is all too unsurprising, Pakistan has blocked social networking site Twitter, over a series of “blasphemous drawings”, The Express Tribune reports. The crackdown comes just a...
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In a post shared on the official White House Blog today, the Obama administration expressed its support for Twitter’s move to join the ranks of sites employing the privacy feature,...
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During a live press conference today, NASCAR announced that it is now the first professional sports league that Twitter has partnered directly with. The partnership will allow Twitter to bring...
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Earlier today, Twitter announced that it would be supporting Mozilla Firefox’s Do Not Track mode in an effort to honor users privacy. Now, it has posted a new help document...
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Twitter has today announced that it will be giving new users a custom-tailored list of suggestions for who to follow. This should help to improve the amount of new accounts...
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Twitter has confirmed via its official account that it supports the Do Not Track feature in Firefox, that allows users to opt-out of third-party tracking cookies, including those used for...
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Twitter’s Translation Center, originally released in February 2011, has just opened up for six new languages: Catalan, Afrikaans, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech and Basque. These six languages were the most requested, and Twitter is...
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Yesterday, Twitter launched a new weekly email digest that it will be sending out to all members. Contained within are a few hotly shared news stories, the Twitter accounts that...
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A year ago, a service called Twitter, which had taken the web and mobiles by storm, opened up shop in London as part of its global expansion. A year later...
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Twitter has announced its new weekly email digest, which looks a lot like the Discover tab in the new versions of Twitter mobile and web. The digest is using the...
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GitHub has announced on its blog that the company is teaming up with Twitter to further the development of TwUI, an open source, Core Animation-based UI framework for Mac. TwUI is the same framework that...
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According to Twitter, its recently launched spelling correction and related queries feature for search has provided serious value since its launch in late April. It says within two weeks of...
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Microblogging giant Twitter isn’t just responsible for pioneering social media and Internet communication, the company is helping put San Francisco on the map as a business hotspot, causing rent prices...
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Earlier today (US time) President Barack Obama made a huge move when he publicly endorsed same-sex marriage, and his announcement on Twitter is close to passing 50,000 retweets. Obama’s team...
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In a massive leak, some 55,000 Twitter accounts have been compromised, leaving them open for abuse. According to AirDemon, accounts belonging to celebrities were attacked in the process. The leak...
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Twitpic announced the release of its own iPhone app today, complete with a photo editor and filters. We’re told that Twitpic has tapped Aviary to power its photo editor, complete...
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Twitter has just updated its mobile web version, mobile.twitter.com, the startup announced on its blog today. According to the post, the purpose of this update is to improve Twitter experience for users...
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It’s that time of week again when we take a look at the latest social media news, and highlight some of the biggest and most interesting stories. Facebook: All your...
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After we first spotted it a couple of days ago, Twitter has now confirmed some of the UI changes that you’ll be seeing in your timeline. The stalwart links at...
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Though Twitter has been known to contribute to the community through open source projects, the company is now taking its contributions a step further. In what will likely feel like...
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I mostly use Twitter.com to tweet (sue me, I don’t like running too many desktop apps) and I noticed that something changed overnight. I couldn’t quite place my finger on...
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A 25 year-old Indian man has won a place on the University of Iowa’s Tippie MBA program thanks to Twitter, after his tweet-entry saw him selected as the sole recipient...
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Make no mistake about it, I’m a Twitter fan and “power user”. I’ve shared some of my most personal moments on the service to friends, family, and onlookers who have...
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Are you addicted to breaking news? Well, a Dutch startup called Zapaday is gearing up to offer you something even better: Breaking Future News. Yes, that’s right, breaking news from...
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Buzz around Ridley Scott’s new film Prometheus is already pretty huge, but UK TV network Channel 4 is set push the bar to a new level by airing a live...
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The popular URL shortener bitly will get a new version of its consumer-focused platform within a month, its chief scientist Hilary Mason announced on stage during TNW Conference in Amsterdam...
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Tweet-queuing service Buffer has introduced a very significant update that allows users of the popular social sharing service to enjoy its benefits direct from Twitter.com. A new Buffer extension for Google...
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Sporting events draw a huge number of people to Twitter and a recent Champions League game was no exception, as a late goal from Fernando Torres helped Chelsea’s win against...
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Chirpify is announcing that it’s scored $1.3 million in funding from an impressive array of investors, including Voyager Capital, HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes, TiE Oregon Angels, BuddyTV CEO Andy Liu,...
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Twitter looks like it is putting Summify, the social feed summary tool it acquired in January, to use after a new service that recaps the most popular stories from users’...
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Twitter is getting a reputation for producing some awkwardly great recruiting videos. The latest is called Code Class and it promises to deliver the skills that its employees need to make...
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Twitter loves open source. In fact, its engineers are known to be heavy consumers and producers of open source technology, and the team has already managed to release a lot of its...
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It’s been just over 24 hours since Twitter announced its ground breaking new initiative, the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA), and a number of companies have already pledged their support. VC’s...
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In the wake of employers going so far as to ask prospective employees to hand over their Facebook passwords, a practice that has been heavily frowned upon by Facebook itself, social...
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Even if you don’t follow Playboy on Twitter, you have probably heard about something the company does every Friday using the hashtag #FriskyFriday. Basically, Playboy asks ladies to share pictures...
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Twitter has announced a fantastic new initiative it’s calling the Innovator’s Patent Agreement, promising to use its engineer’s patents defensively against other companies unless explicitly permitted by the creators of...
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has insisted that Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram will not sway the microblogging service into buying a similar photo-sharing service, the Wall Street Journal reports....
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The social analytics company Hotspots.io has been acquired by Twitter, and its team will be joining the revenue engineering department there, according to a splash page on its website. Update...
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Twitter has today announced that it is expanding its Promoted Tweets advertising offering by adding BlackBerry to its roster of platforms available to advertisers. Users of the ad program can...
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