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London morphed into the Twitter Games, 140 characters at a time
Yahoo! Sports
Twitter. Most people think of the social media site as a tool used to follow and discuss events – in this case the story of what happened in London – but Twitter turned into a story itself on several occasions. A 17-year-old Olympics fan in the U.K ...
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Twitter: More than 150 million tweets were sent about Olympics
Los Angeles Times
The 2012 London Olympics were a highly talked about topic this summer, and Twitter's got proof. More than 150 million tweets were sent out about the Games over the last 16 days, the social network said. The company put together a blog post Sunday night ...
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Social media proves a force in consuming Olympics
Fox News
Twitter estimates there were more than 50 million tweets about the Olympics, at a pace of 80000 per minute after Jamaica's Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the 200-meter sprint. Facebook saw the number of fans of Olympic athletes soar: American gymnast ...
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Paid Twitter Alternative App.net Hits $500000 Funding Goal
PC Magazine
In mid-July, App.net founder Dalton Caldwell announced plans for a Kickstarter-like, 30-day online funding campaign that would gather money for a Twitter-like service that would rely on paid subscribers rather than ad dollars. In a video (below ...
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Evelyn Lozada's Twitter gets nasty tweets from skeptical fans
Examiner.com
Evelyn Lozada's Twitter account has been all but abandoned ever since news broke late Saturday night that the "Basketball Wives" star was the victim of a domestic violence incident at the hands of her husband Chad Johnson. The last tweet from Evelyn ...
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Examiner.com
Rep. Ryan earns Romney positive buzz on Twitter
The Hill (blog)
Twitter also started comparing online conversations around Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden over the weekend. Ryan earned 60 on the Twitter scale Saturday compared to Biden's 37. The quickness of the opposition's attacks seemed to bring about a fast ...
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Alex Dell's Twitter Account Shut Down: PC Magnate Puts Stop To Daughter's ...
Huffington Post
But what is concerning about Zachary's buffet is Alexa's need to share her every move, most likely not realizing the danger of instantaneous updates. Her Twitter account (which disappeared from the internet last Friday) detailed the family's activities ...
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EYES ON LONDON: For London Olympics, farewell time
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Paisley Dodds — Twitter http://twitter.com/paisleydodds. ___. LONELY PARK. Overnight, Olympic Park in London has gone from party central to an empty, blocked-off construction site. Now that the games are over, the park is eerily deserted. The main ...
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Usain Bolt rules Twitter during Games
Phys.Org
Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt dominated Twitter during the Olympics, the social networking site has revealed, with his gold in the 200 metres inspiring a staggering 80000 tweets per minute. He followed it up with more than 74000 messages posted every ...
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Buying Twitter Followers? Beware StatusPeople, The Service That Exposes ...
Fast Company
photo on Twitter displaying her StatusPeople "Faker Score," revealing that 96% of her followers are good, 3% inactive, and only 1% fake. While 2011 was the year of Klout, the popular service that calculates a user's online influence, this new tool ...
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Fast Company
Fall TV Twitter Reax: What People Will Be Saying About Partners, Revolution ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Fall TV season is almost upon us, and with it, a whole slew of new television shows that will be hoping to garner the attention of enough viewers to stay on the air. A great way to do that is to get the fans talking on Twitter. But what will the ...
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Daily Cuppa: Apple sales outed, Yahoo eyes Twitter exec
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Apple and Samsung were forced to disclose sales figures, Yahoo has its eyes on a Twitter executive, Chrome sandbox cut down Flash crashes by 20 per cent and people want a 7-inch iPad. Josh Taylor. By Josh Taylor for Technolatte | August 12, ...
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Miley Cyrus' haircut leaves fans speechless
Examiner.com
Miley Cyrus' Twitter page shared some tweets Sunday night that seemed a bit cryptic, and it all led up to her dramatic haircut and color change. Early Sunday she started off with tweets showing bombs and a clock alongside the words "tick tock tick tock.
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Examiner.com
Win A Twitter Gold Medal: Tips From The 2012 Olympics
Business 2 Community
twitter at the olympics If you're on Twitter, you've most likely noticed a shift in subject matters this past week. The Olympic games have taken over prime time, my go-to news websites, and now, my Twitter feed. Since the Beijing games, social media ...
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Business 2 Community
'Twitter Is My City': An Exclusive Interview with Ai Weiwei
Foreign Policy (blog)
Ai Weiwei's studio compound sits behind high, ivy-covered gray brick walls on an isolated street in Beijing's shabby northeast outskirts. China's best-known dissident, architect, and creative provocateur, Ai used to travel around the country making art ...
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Foreign Policy (blog)
Jason "Mayhem" Miller, Dana White Go Back and Forth on Twitter
Opposing Views
Former UFC fighter Jason "Mayhem" Miller decided to call out UFC president Dana White on Twitter recently. One of the more interesting things Miller said involved the ex-TUF coach hoping that White would go "kill yourself." Below is a collection of ...
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Opposing Views
Beyoncé Shows Off Precious Pic of Blue Ivy
E! Online
Beyoncé continues to rack up gorgeous photos for her ever-growing family album, and—lucky for us—she's happy to share them with the world. The doting mom has posted an adorable pic of daughter Blue Ivy on her Tumblr page, giving everyone an intimate ...
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E! Online
Facebook, Twitter play key role in Syrian uprising
Times of India
The Twitter feeds of news organisations have been hacked by pro-regime elements, videos purporting to show atrocities in Syria are regularly posted to YouTube and pro- or anti-government messages often flood Facebook pages. "People are using all these ...
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Spice Girls post Twitter pictures of all night party after euphoric Olympics ...
Irish Independent
THE Spice Girls did a good impression of a group that had put their differences behind them during their jubilant performance at last night's Olympics closing ceremony. But it was apparently no show of fake unity but the real thing, as photos posted on ...
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Irish Independent
WWE News: Abraham Washington's Twitter Rants Could Get Him Rehired
Bleacher Report
It's been a while since we've seen a fired WWE employee exhibit the sheer anger that Abraham Washington has. It is a rage that was ignited the moment WWE decided to part ways with Washington, who admittedly made the error of going too far on Raw.
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Bleacher Report
Dalton Caldwell's App.net Meets Funding Goal To Launch Paid Twitter Alternative
Forbes
As Dalton Caldwell, the founder of a new Twitter alternative called App.net, explains in the video above, this puts them, at least economically, in the awkward position where their advertisers are their customers and their users are their "product ...
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Hey Girl! Your favorite meme got mixed up with Paul Ryan and ...
Entertainment Weekly
And as is the case with any big news these days (Angelina's leg, NBC's time-delayed coverage) it instantly had a parody twitter account. Having the same last name as Gosling's first name has repercussions, girl. Taking the same formula that launched ...
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Two arrested after Sunday Mirror Twitter paedo probe
Press Gazette
Two people have been arrested following a Sunday Mirror investigation into suspected paedophiles on Twitter. The paper labelled the social networking site a "paedophiles' playground" yesterday after it revealed how the site was being used to distribute ...
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Korea Policing the Net. Twist? It's South Korea.
New York Times
SEOUL, South Korea — A government critic who called the president a curse word on his Twitter account found it blocked. An activist whose Twitter posting likened officials to pirates for approving a controversial naval base was accused by the navy of ...
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New York Times
TWITTER CRITICS
Newsday
The closing ceremony is well under way, and those in the stadium say the mood is "electric." But elsewhere -- namely, the Twittersphere -- some of the closing ceremony magic is lost on observers. From the choice of musical acts (a boy band?!) to the ...
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Newsday
Tulare County Fire Department starts Twitter feed
Visalia Times-Delta
Following local law enforcement and first-response agencies, the Tulare County Fire Department is establishing a Twitter account. County Fire Battalion Chief Mike Green said the feed, @TulareCoFire, will be used to provide news, information and press ...
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TWITTER CRITICS
Albany Times Union
Uganda's Stephen Kiprotich, center, celebrates after receiving his medal as he stands alongside Kenya's Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, right, and, Kenya's Abel Kirui, left, during the medal ceremony for the men's marathon during the Closing Ceremony at the ...
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Storobin's Twitter Tactics Spark Feuding With Felder Campaign
Gestetner Updates
City & State Reports: When the campaign manager for Democratic Senate candidate Simcha Felder tried to follow his opponent State Sen. David Storobin's Twitter feed recently, he was told that he had "been blocked from following this account at the ...
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Paul Ryan Owns A Stake In Twitter
San Francisco Chronicle
A very, very small piece of Twitter. It's through a stake in the T Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, and Primack estimates it's worth "between $25 and $50." "I never said it was a big stake," Primack tweets. Please follow Business Insider on Twitter and ...
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Blogs13 new results for Twitter
 
Twitter Blog: Olympic (and Twitter) records
By Twitter
On the closing day of the 2012 Summer Olympics, we're looking back at all of the memorable moments of the London Games: the wins, the losses, the drama, and above all, the Tweets. No matter the sport, Twitter was your front row seat for all ...
Twitter Blog
Paid Twitter wannabe App.net hits $500K target with time to spare ...
By Steve Dent
Paid Twitter-style service App.net has achieved its self-imposed $500000 funding goal with almost two days still left on the clock. The social platform.
Engadget
App.net Plans a Better Twitter
By Small Business Editor
The days of Twitter and some other social networks may be numbered, if App.net founder Dalton Caldwell has his way. Caldwell's new social network operates on a.
Small Business News, Tips, Advice...
Best Twitter Reactions To The Supermodels At The Olympic Closing ...
By Jennifer Wright
Did you get a chance to see the British supermodels suddenly storm the stage at the Olympic Closing Ceremony? Kate Moss! Naomi Campbell! Lily Cole! Georgia May.
TheGloss
DownWithTyranny!: Too Long For Twitter...
By DownWithTyranny
Too Long For Twitter... > Republicans who hate Mitt Romney aren't the only ones delighted with the selection of Paul "the anti-Medicare guy" Ryan as his running mate. Everyone on Team Obama is probably kvelling this weekend as well.
DownWithTyranny!
Funded! Dalton Caldwell's Twitter alternative App.net reaches ...
By Jon Russell
Dalton Caldwell's Twitter alternative, App.net has reached its $500000 funding goal with less than two days (38 hours) to spare. Caldwell announced the 'open' microblogging site, which affords its users 256 characters rather than Twitter's ...
The Next Web
5 Fast Tips for Going Multilingual on Twitter : @ProBlogger
By Guest Blogger
This guest post is by Christian Arno of Lingo24. With just 140 characters you can reach a global audience. Hardly ...
@ProBlogger
Olympics 2012: Twitter Users Sent More Than 150 million Summer ...
By Georg Szalai
UPDATED: Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps drew the most messages during the London Olympics, while the Spice Girls set a closing ceremony record of 116000 tweets per minute.
International
App.net financial backers show they're open to a paid Twitter - GigaOm
By Eliza Kern
Is the world ready for a paid alternative to Twitter? Entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell thinks so, and his App.net project hit its fundraising goals ahead of schedule, showing that at least some folks are ready for a more open, ad-free service.
GigaOM
The secret of the Mars rover's Twitter success: 'keeping it real' | The ...
By Louis Goddard
Even before the successful landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars last week, the machine's official Twitter account was by far the most entertaining way to keep track of its...
The Verge - All Posts
Hey Girl, Follow Paul Ryan Gosling On Twitter! - The Frisky
By Amelia McDonell-Parry
Hey girl, take a quick second and follow Paul Ryan Gosling, the Twitter account for the better, smoother, sexier Paul Ryan. Above, a selection of some of our - Full Size Image.
The Frisky
Usain Bolt Was Twitter's Biggest Olympic Star (And Soccer Was The ...
By Shea Bennett
Usain Bolt Was Twitter's Biggest Olympic Star (And Soccer Was The Most Popular Sport) [STATS]. By Shea Bennett on August 13, 2012 6:00 AM. Did you watch the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics? We've all had lots of special ...
AllTwitter
Azealia Banks escalates Twitter war with new track, 'Succubi' | Death ...
By Alex Moore
The track it produced is pretty sweet, regardless of the backstory.
Death and Taxes

Web3 new results for Twitter
 
NBC critic's Twitter account reinstated - CNN
Guy Adams, the Los Angeles-based journalist whose Twitter account was suspended after blasting NBC over its Olympics coverage, is tweeting again after ...
articles.cnn.com/.../tech_social-media_nbc-critic-twitter-reinsta...
Twitter's Landscaping Problem by MG Siegler
Twitter. On the surface, it's another year, another bitch session. Developers are up in arms! Everyone is threatening to leave! Or, at least, hundreds of people!
massivegreatness.com/theres-a-storm-coming-mr-wayne
Blindly speculating on Twitter's future – Marco.org
But amid the confusion of the past month, nearly all have overlooked the section of Sippey's post which holds the key to Twitter's future: Cards. Twitter's new ...
www.marco.org/2012/08/02/twitter-speculation


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