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Who owns that Twitter account?
PCWorld
Noah Kravitz built up quite a following at PhoneDog, a mobile-phone news and reviews website. By late 2010 his @PhoneDog_Noah Twitter account had amassed more than 17,000 followers. That was all well and good—until Kravitz resigned and went to ...
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Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey promote computer coding ...
Fox News
NEW YORK – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey are among the tech luminaries appearing in a new video promoting the teaching and learning of computer coding in schools. Titled "What most ...
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Grow Your Twitter Followers By Being Nice And Informative
Forbes
SAN FRANCISCO - SEPTEMBER 14: Twitter CEO Evan Williams is seen silhouetted against a screen as he shows off the newly revamped Twitter website on September 14, 2010 at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California. (Image credit: Getty ...
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LA Now Live: Cardinal Mahony uses Twitter, blog as pulpit
Los Angeles Times
It was on his blog that Mahony defended himself against a public rebuke by his successor, and it was on Twitter account that he confirmed, to the dismay of many critics, that he would attend the conclave to elect a new pope. "Am planning to be in Rome ...
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Small businesses skeptical about Twitter's usefulness
ZDNet
In short, although more small businesses are exploring Twitter, they haven't actually figured out how to make it usefulness yet. "On Twitter, you can't engage in a meaningful way," Todd Demann, founder of Los Angeles-based Freshology, told the WSJ.
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ZDNet
Twitter token limit criticised as Falcon Pro hikes app price to deter buyers
The Guardian (blog)
But that's the price put on the Falcon Pro for Android, a Twitter client, after its developer Joaquim Vergès ran into Twitter's policy - introduced last August - of limiting the number of "tokens" (in effect, users of the app) available to new third ...
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Will Twitter make an impact in Kenya's elections next week?
Christian Science Monitor
"There is a real pressure to be on Twitter, on Facebook, to be commenting and moving the debate on," says Ephantus Mwangi, a youth worker from Kitale in western Kenya. "That was not here last [elections]. It means now that everyone is watching everyone ...
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Is Twitter Really Worth $9 Billion? Is It The New Google?
Forbes
Quite how much Twitter is worth is a difficult question in one sense. So much of it depends upon how the business expands its number of users, how it manages to monetise that greater number and so on. There's an awful lot of potential there, to be sure ...
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Twitter Treading Warily on Road to IPO
U.S. News & World Report
The tweets just keep coming for Twitter—30 per second by latest count. But the giant of social media one-liners needs to show a year of steady revenue growth if it hopes to avoid Facebook's disappointing stock market debut and the serious failure of ...
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U.S. News & World Report
Twitter?s Soaring Valuation
Daily Beast
Tweet this. In the wake of its powerful display of cultural influence at Sunday night's Oscars, an analysis of Twitter's business pegs the company's market value at about $10 billion. Twitter, which is just starting to generate cash through advertising ...
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Why Twitter's Ads API Launch Suggests An IPO Might Follow In August
Business Insider
Twitter is already profitable. But a formal ads API has the potential to automate ad buying on Twitter at a mass scale. It could turn Twitter's torrent of promoted tweets and trends into a tsunami. Among Twitter's first API clients are TBG Digital ...
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Is Twitter Really Worth $10 Billion?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
That cultural ascendancy isn't lost on Twitter and its investors, who are said to be plotting what would be the premier public offering of 2013. In recent weeks the seven-year-old company completed private transactions that pegged its value at $9 ...
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McClean closes Twitter account
Belfast Telegraph
James McClean said goodbye to his Twitter account which has caused him a number of problems. 27 February 2013. Sunderland midfielder James McClean has closed down his Twitter account after finding himself embroiled in further controversy.
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"Happy, positive" messages key to success on Twitter
Indian Express
Scientists have discovered the secret to becoming popular on micro-blogging site Twitter. C.J. Hutto and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta examined the content and re-tweeting fate of tweets sent by 500 non-celebrities over a ...
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Using Twitter to heal — and to inflict pain
Albany Times Union
Seldom have social media played a more prominent role in our community than after the Northway crash that left two Capital Region high school students dead and two others seriously injured, including Shaker High School senior Bailey Wind. Since the ...
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Tilda Swinton parody Twitter account now an actual book you can buy
New York Daily News (blog)
"Launched to viral acclaim during last May's lunar eclipse, Twitter parody account @NotTildaSwinton has been reincarnated into a book," Metro reports, going on to say that the book, "Not Tilda Swinton," contains 187 musings taken directly from the ...
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Paris Jackson Flaunts New Rocker Haircut, Dagger-Like Earring on Twitter
E! Online
In twitpics she shared with her Twitter followers, Jackson couldn't resist showing off a more provocative look that included a close-cropped punk hairstyle, a new dagger-style earring and body art on the upper part of her back and right upper arm ...
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E! Online
Now on 'Idol,' Viewers Can Tweet While Contestants Sing
New York Times
These days, as more people watch television with a phone in hand or a computer in lap, it's de rigueur for a network to have a Twitter hashtag on the screen. Television producers and stars — at least the ones with thick skins — appreciate the instant ...
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New York Times
Is Twitter actually worth $10 billion? We have our doubts
The Next Web
The Wall Street Journal's Dennis Berman recently penned a column indicating that, yes, Twitter is in fact worth $10 billion, sort of. We took a look at Berman's numbers, and found them lacking in substance, and that his conclusions appear to be based ...
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The Next Web
Twitter for Windows Phone updated: Looks like iOS, Android, and BlackBerry 10
ZDNet
One of my most used applications on my smartphones is Twitter, but I have always used third-party clients on Windows Phone, since I was never a fan of the official Twitter client. Twitter released an updated version today that aligns the design with ...
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ZDNet
'American Idol' to introduce live onscreen Twitter polls this week
The Verge
Like many other shows, American Idol has long incorporated Twitter hashtags into its viewing experience, but the popular singing contest is about to take its social media campaign one step further, with the introduction of real-time Twitter polls.
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Twitter: how to get more followers
Telegraph.co.uk
After studying more than half a million tweets, the conclusion was that "expressing negative sentiments in tweets is the second most harmful factor to growing a Twitter audience." In other words, if you want more followers, try not to say mean things ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Tweetbot Is Naming And Shaming Pirates On Twitter
Cult of Mac
Too cheap to actually buy Tweetbot, Tapbot's awesome Twitter app for iPhone, iPad and Mac? Are you pirating it despite the fact that it only costs a couple bucks, and Tweetbot has a limited number of tokens that it can distribute before Twitter says ...
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First Person: Twitter creator's 'Square Wallet'
USA TODAY
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is making a splash in the mobile payments market with a new application called, 'Square Wallet.' It allows customers and merchants to carry out transactions on iPads, iPhones, and other mobile devices. (Feb. 27) ...
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Twitter is right. We have to tolerate the trolls
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Sinead McSweeney, Twitter's director of public policy, has remarked bravely that "taking bad speech away doesn't remove the thoughts from somebody's mind, doesn't remove the sentiments from society and sometimes it is better to see those thoughts and ...
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Here's what Facebook, Google, & Twitter told the Supreme Court about gay ...
VentureBeat
Some of the tech companies involved include (in alphabetical order) Akamai, Cisco, eBay, Facebook, Gilt Groupe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft, Oracle, Orbitz, Qualcomm, Twitter, Xeroc, and Zynga. The city and county of San Francisco has also signed ...
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VentureBeat
Forget Twitter Hacks. Verizon Says Skyrocketing Attacks On US Infrastructure ...
Forbes
Both Burger King and Jeep lost control of their Twitter accounts over the last week. But the exploits of so-called hactivists, who were the focus of last year's DBIR report, are increasingly treated as no more than nuisances thanks to rising concern ...
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Forbes
Live chat: Snark alert! Twitter's 'Phil Coke's Brain' takes your questions at noon
MLive.com
View/Post Comments. Phil-Coke-art.jpg Phil Coke's Brain Courtesy of Samara Pearlstein. LAKELAND, Fla. -- You've heard what Tigers reliever Phil Coke had to say when he got to meet the man behind the popular Twitter account entitled "Phil Coke's Brain." ...
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Florida vs. Tennessee: Twitter Reaction, Postgame Recap and Analysis
Bleacher Report
Upsets have been an ongoing trend in college basketball this season. Top-ranked Indiana fell to Minnesota earlier in the evening, and Tennessee continued the pattern with a 64-58 win over No. 8 Florida Tuesday night. Volunteers guard Jordan McRae ...
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Blogs13 new results for Twitter
 
AFP Says Photo Dept Twitter Account Hacked To Promote Syrian ...
By Ken Yeung
The photo department of the AFP's Twitter account has been the victim of a hack today. It's now suspended but tweeted out pro-Syrian government messages.
The Next Web
Why McDonald's Has the Most Insane Twitter Account | Cracked.com
Who the hell do these people think they're talking to? McDonald's CEO Don Thompson? A laptop possessed by the ghost of Maurice McDonald? Mayor McCheese?
Cracked: All Posts
Miranda Kerr: Twitter Q&A Using #AskMiranda Tonight! | Celebrity ...
By Just Jared
Miranda Kerr: Twitter Q&A Using #AskMiranda Tonight!
Just Jared
Languages of New York, via Twitter
By Nathan Yau
In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James Cheshire and Ed Manley, along with John Barratt, mapped the most commonly used languages in New York, based on the ones used on Twitter. English (in grey above) is ...
FlowingData
Can Twitter Become a $10 Billion Company?
By ABS Staff
I spent the last week trying to write a column that proved Twitter wasn't worth $10 billion. Then the facts intervened. Stubbornly, they arranged th.
Atlanta Black Star
Twitter makes us wonder what the heck a Firefox OS app is | Mobile ...
By Lee Mathews
Feb. 26, 2013 - Twitter has announced that it's getting on board the Firefox OS train, and that an official app will be offered up via the Firefox Marketplace. It's further.
Geek.com
Twitter 2.0 for Windows Phone not built by Twitter, same for ... - Neowin
By Brad Sams
Twitter app on Windows Phone was not built by Twitter and was instead farmed out to a third party in the same way that version 1 was built and the story holds true for the upcoming Windows Store app.
Neowin
Pro-Assad Hackers Take Over AFP Twitter - Business Insider
By Geoffrey Ingersoll and Michael Kelley
Pro-Assad hackers took over the Agence France-Presse (AFP) Twitter at about noon Tuesday and started posting pro-Assad/anti-Obama tweets and images. Spokespeople at AFP promptly issued an apology to their followers as the ...
Business Insider
How's Taste My Tweet Tweet? MMA on Twitter - Ben Henderson vs ...
By Anton Tabuena
The week's most interesting bits from the MMA and UFC twitter world.
Bloody Elbow - All Posts
Mike Krzyzewski Done With Team USA, Twitter Reacts | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
Mike Krzyzewski Done With Team USA, Twitter Reacts. It appears that after seven years of coaching the Team USA basketball team, Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski (otherwise known as Coach K) will not be coaching it any longer. Krzyzewski ...
Top News - WebProNews
Idea of Titanic II already sinking on Twitter - Blog Central, From the ...
By Aaron Hutchins
Man behind new #Titanic: Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, with gr-daughter of orig Titanic survivor. http://pic.twitter.com/18qB2VS4AHDavid Common. The Titanic was the ship of dreams. Titanic II is the ship where dreams will come true.
Macleans.ca
AFP photo Twitter account hacked - seattlepi.com
PARIS (AP) — French news agency Agence France-Presse says one of its photo accounts on Twitter has been hacked and is now suspended. Pierre Celerier, deputy global news editor for AFP, said the source of the hacking Tuesday is ...
Business Heds Index
Get More Out Of Twitter With Your Own Personalized Real Time ...
By Saikat Basu
That honor belongs to Twitter most of all. The Tweeted Times is a convenient marriage of both worlds, and in my opinion it also strives to give us the best of both worlds. We covered it briefly before and it is certainly not the only one we have ...
MakeUseOf » Facebook & Twitter

Web3 new results for Twitter
 
Attract Customers with Twitter & Vine | How to Ebook
Download this free Ebook and learn how you can generate customers for your business through the power of Twitter and Vine.
offers.hubspot.com/how-to-attract-customers-with-twitter-and-...
Twitter
But Twitter doesn't limit you to those characters. You have all of Unicode to play with, which has room for over a million different characters. The way Twitter ...
what-if.xkcd.com/34/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium...
Oscar night's highs and lows on Twitter - CNN.com
Watching Sunday's long, sometimes awkward Academy Awards broadcast was made more entertaining by the steady stream of commentary on Twitter.
www.cnn.com/2013/02/25/tech/social.../oscar-tweets-2013


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