Friday, August 17, 2012

Google Alert - Twitter

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Twitter announces API changes, give developers six months to adapt
Los Angeles Times
Twitter announced changes to its API, and the company wants developers to incorporate them within six months or risk being shut out. The company said the changes to its API will help Twitter create a "more consistent Twitter experience," which is the ...
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Fake Twitter Followers Newest Ploy, Accusation In Politics
Huffington Post
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Forget ballot box irregularities. There's a virtual dust-up under way over how Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney amassed more than 100000 new Twitter followers in just one weekend. It may seem trivial, but ...
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2012 conventions embrace social media openness
Atlanta Journal Constitution
In this screen shot provided by the Democratic National Convention Committee, the committee's Twitter account is seen. Social media is making the smoke-filled rooms of political conventions a thing of the past. Democrats are promising to use Twitter, ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Soccer-Ferdinand fined over Twitter comment
Reuters
LONDON Aug 17 (Reuters) - Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has been fined and warned about his future conduct over a comment he made on Twitter where he referred to Chelsea's Ashley Cole as "choc ice", the English FA said on Friday.
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Facebook, Twitter in focus after rumours over NE people
Hindustan Times
Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde has asked the Director of Intelligence Bureau to trace the source of the SMSes and content on internet sites like Facebook and YouTube that appeared to be the cause for panic among people of North East in various parts ...
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Lessons from Progressive screw-up: When it's Twitter vs. lawyers, take Twitter
NBCNews.com (blog)
Progressive encountered a Twitter revolt after the family of a woman killed in a car crash wrote a blog post criticizing the way the firm fought to avoid paying a claim. The post went viral, and the insurance giant then compounded its problems by ...
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App.net: A social network made possible by Facebook and Twitter
CNET
Compared to the popularity of Twitter and Facebook and even what's left of MySpace, App.net is beyond insignificant: its single set of servers could be powered through waste heat generated by millions of teens clicking on Justin Bieber's status updates.
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Twitter's founders launch two new services.
New Statesman (blog)
The two men will be staying on as directors of Twitter, which poses a problem for them commercially – how do they use their expertise to carry on the string of hits, without cannibalising their previous business? One of the Twitter's cofounders, Jack ...
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Combatting Twitter Spam and Facebook Leaks
ChicagoNow (blog)
Although my list of 40 information security tips may seem long, there were many things that had to be left out, so to close out my security-themed week here are some additional tips for Twitter and Facebook. In my original list I addressed not clicking ...
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New Slices Twitter App for iOS, Android Aims to Organize Your Stream
CIO (blog)
I love Twitter. But, let's face it, it's a bit disorganized—a ceaseless stream of 140-character-or-less posts from all sorts of characters on all types of subjects. For simple browsing, it's a bit too much, and after a few minutes, I usually move on ...
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CIO (blog)
'China's Twitter' stock surges more than 10%
CNNMoney
Sina Corp., which operates China's Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo, posted a surprise second-quarter profit of $33.2 million, more than triple the amount a year ago. The results, which included an 11% jump in revenue, blew investors away since ...
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Random House Unveils Twitter Author Chat Series
Publishers Weekly
James Dashner, Rebecca Stead, and Christopher Paolini are among the big-name writers participating in Random House Children's Books' new Twitter Author Chat series. Dashner, whose Maze Runner prequel, The Kill Order, was released this week by ...
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Twitter Updates API Rules, Tightens Screws On Developr Apps
RedOrbit
Developers will now have their application certified by Twitter if they are building applications that will be pre-installed on "mobile handsets, SIM cards, chipsets or other consumer electronics devices" to "providing the best Twitter experience ...
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Lady Gaga vs. Miley Cyrus: Who's More Fun to Follow on Twitter? - Readers Poll
PopCrush
Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus are two of pop music's most active Twitter users, sharing an endless amount of awesome photos and constantly giving love to their fans. Both of these women utilize Twitter to its full potential, using the social networking ...
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On Twitter, Obama Barely Edges Out Romney On Immigration
Business 2 Community
At 33%, Twitter believes the President's plan for immigration is more agreeable than that of Governor Romney. But with Romney at 32%, the President doesn't have a wide margin of favorability. While the President's plan calls for allowing undocumented ...
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Pussy Riot Guilty Verdict: Hollywood Responds on Twitter
Hollywood Reporter
Despite global outcry and statements of protest from Madonna and Paul McCartney, a Russian court convicted three of the band's members -- Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29 -- for reciting a "punk prayer" ...
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PodKast: One crazy summer, LA vs. the NBA, Bynum remembered, and Twitter ...
ESPN (blog)
-Finally, we bust open ESPNLandOLakers Twitter mailbag! Questions were sent, questions were answered. Was yours among them? (34:00). To subscribe to the K-Bros podcast via iTunes, click here. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for full video coverage ...
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Notre Dame Football: Twitter Reacts to Irish's 2012 Shamrock Series Uniforms
Bleacher Report
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Miami Hurricanes will add to their historic rivalry this season when they play in the first week of October. Notre Dame decided that the two historic programs playing against one another simply wasn't enough, and it ...
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Bleacher Report
The Value of Following "Real Housewives" on Twitter -- Is Two for a Penny too ...
Forbes
News reports are breathlessly reporting that Real Housewives of Orange County resident Alexis Bellino saw her Twitter followers jump by 30000. It's no surprise that fellow reality "stars" were quoted as saying things like "once a fake, always a fake ...
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New from Twitter: crowdsourced analytics
GigaOM
Lost amid the furor around Twitter's new API restrictions was news that the company has open-sourced Clockwork Raven — an in-house web application that makes it easier for anyone to submit what amounts to data analytics job tickets. The idea is to get ...
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Olympians Gaining Twitter Followers
velonews.competitor.com
Global television exposure –including a record audience in the United States according to the ratings agency Nielsen– sent fans to social media sites like Twitter to follow up on their interest in specific athletes. The result? Four athletes have ...
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Britney Spears Song Spurs Twitter Conversation With NASA Mars Rover ...
International Business Times
Britney Spears has been on top of the world with her music career, as well as out of this world! The singer and "X Factor" judge took to Twitter to exchange some pretty hilarious tweets with NASA's rover Curiosity. (Photo: Reuters)<br>Britney Spears ...
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International Business Times
How Facebook and Twitter Are Helping the Homeless
The Atlantic Cities (blog)
Homeless people have Facebook friends, too. According to a new study from University of Dayton sociologist and criminologist Art Jipson, homeless people are increasingly connected to each other and to non-homeless people through social networking ...
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The Atlantic Cities (blog)
Twitter needs to charge the heaviest users for access to its platform
Canada.com
Twitter announced new rules for how developers can interact with its services on Thursday evening, and pretty much everyone who develops software with Twitter in mind is nervous. Essentially, the service is cracking down on how people use it, forcing ...
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Twits of Twitter are tweaking the stars
Herald Sun
Closer to home, SA premier Jay Weatherill, Crows player Bernie Vince and Federal Senator Penny Wong are among those who have found themselves impersonated on Twitter. Vince's "party boy" reputation is the focus of his fake account with the username ...
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The New API Rules Show How Far Twitter Has Fallen From Nirvana
Forbes
Long ago, Twitter got it right. Like many successful Web 2.0 companies, it had the right idea at the right time, a little bit of luck, and experienced hockey-stick growth. The product that caught the imagination was simple, you could post a short ...
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Ravens: Twitter Mail Bag
Carroll County Times
Each week during the football season, Ravens writer Matt Zenitz will take your Ravens-related questions on Twitter and answer them in Friday's edition of the Carroll County Times. To join the conversation, just send your questions to Matt on Twitter ...
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Blogs12 new results for Twitter
 
Twitter Makes New Rules for Developers - NYTimes.com
By By NICK BILTON
On Thursday, Twitter disclosed how it plans to tighten-up rules for developers who build applications on the company's platform. Read more...
NYT Bits
Twitter Handcuffs Client Apps With New API Changes | TechCrunch
By Anthony Ha
Twitter's Michael Sippey announced a bunch of upcoming changes to the company's API in a blog post today. We've already summarized the post, but here's the big picture: Things are about to get tougher for developers of traditional Twitter ...
TechCrunch
Twitter API Changes Set Maximum User Cap for 3rd Parties
By Matthew Panzarino
Several suggestions that Twitter had made previously about the way that apps link usernames to profiles, refer to retweets and more are all now required, period. This will speak to the 'unification' of the platform, as laid out in previous posts ...
The Next Web
Twitter's API v1.1 rules put user caps on third party clients, exert ...
By Richard Lawler
Last spring an announcement from the platform team at Twitter not-at-all-subtly suggested developers of third party clients should find something else to.
Engadget
Twitter Wants to Stop You from Using Twitter Apps Not Made By Twitter
By Casey Chan
Twitter just posted details about the upcoming updates to its API and the big news is this: Twitter will be limiting the amount of users that can use third-party Twitter apps. Basically client apps like Tweetbot and Twitterific now have a ...
Gizmodo
Twitter's API Update Cuts Off Oxygen to Third-Party Clients
By Christina Warren
Twitter unveiled some of the upcoming changes to version 1.1 of its API that could have a drastic impact on the service's third-party ecosystem. As prom.
Mashable!
What Twitter's API Announcement Could Have Said - Anil Dash
By Anil
This is relevant today because Twitter announced some upcoming API changes. From my standpoint, these are mostly pretty reasonable, and in fact should have almost no impact on any normal Twitter user. Naturally, super-geeky developers ...
Anil Dash
Twitter's API Changes — The Brooks Review
By BenBrooks
Essentially, Twitter is making it so that it is nearly impossible to do anything with their service — including make Twitter apps — that Twitter doesn't like or approve of. If Marco's reading is correct, it further takes action against any site that ...
The Brooks Review
Twitter housecleaning | SourceForge Community Blog
By rbowen
We're also trying to add some organization to what we're following, by arranging them into Twitter lists. We've created a list of all of the SourceForge projects we follow, and we encourage you to follow that list to get the latest news on what ...
SourceForge Community Blog
Twitter Plans to Choke Access to Apps It Doesn't Approve - AllThingsD
By Liz Gannes
Twitter had long told builders of Twitter clients that it wasn't happy with them, but now it has a systematic way to cut them off.
AllThingsD
Twitter Marketing: Does it Still Matter? | Social Media Examiner
By Michael Stelzner
Social Media Marketing Podcast 002: In this episode Brian Solis talks about how Twitter has changed and what works on Twitter today.
Social Media Examiner
Here's The One Chart Twitter Developers Need To - Business Insider
By Owen Thomas
That's because Twitter no longer wants apps and websites to use Twitter's content to create experiences where consumers primarily read tweets. One prominent example: LinkedIn, which saw its access to tweets cut off at the end of June.
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Web6 new results for Twitter
 
Seattle Mariners (Mariners) on Twitter
Official Twitter account for the Seattle Mariners. For more Mariners accounts go to Mariners.com/Connect & check us out at Facebook.com/Mariners, too.
199.59.148.102/Mariners
BBC News - Twitter changes provokes anger from developers
Developers who create Twitter apps with more than 100000 users now need to seek the social network's permission to continue operating.
www.bbc.com/news/technology-19293793
Twitter Restricts Client Developers - Slashdot
New submitter atsabig10fo writes "Twitter has finally released the hinted-at changes to their API, which include limiting the number of users for third party clients, ...
developers.slashdot.org/.../twitter-restricts-client-developers?...
Interpreting some of Twitter's API changes – Marco.org
Twitter has posted some of their upcoming API-policy lockdowns and restrictions in this post from Michael Sippey, euphemistically titled "Changes coming in ...
www.marco.org/2012/08/16/twitter-api-changes
Monterey Aquarium (MontereyAq) on Twitter
Sign in New to Twitter? Join Today ». Username or email ...
199.16.156.11/MontereyAq
Developers Are Pissed, Frustrated by New Twitter Decree
Claiming a desire to deliver "a more consistent Twitter experience," today the San Francisco company announced a laundry list of changes, many of them vague, ...
www.readwriteweb.com/.../developers-are-pissed-frustrated-by...


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