Interesting fact: most Tweets posted are approximately 30 characters long

If you've ever wondered how long the average Tweet is, then this graph should answer some questions for you. Created by Twitter employee Isaac Hepworth, it is a sampling of...

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Twitter 2011: One Billion Tweets Every 5 Days (And Other Record-Breaking Events) [INFOGRAPHIC]

2011 was a huge year for Twitter, with the social platform breaking records left, right and centre.The Japanese celebration of the New Year started the ball rolling, and in May, Beyoncé’s pregnancy announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards set a new tweets per second (TPS) record on Twitter. Despite a host of major events, including earthquakes in Japan and the USA, the death of Steve Jobs and the raid on Osama Bin Laden, this record stood until December, when it was beaten by, of all things, t [...]

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Let's Fly: Embeddable Tweets

Tweets have become one of the most important — and simplest — ways for people to share news, humor, inspiration, and knowledge online. And they are even richer when they include pictures, videos, locations, or links to other sites on the web. With the new version of Twitter, anyone can embed Tweets simply by copying and pasting one line of code into their website. Embedded Tweets automatically open to show images, conversations and videos.

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Twitter doesn’t label users ‘anti-social’, but does remove tweets from search

A report by SD Times yesterday tried to call attention to a suspected practice by Twitter to label users as "anti-social", thus removing their tweets from search results on the...

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Some Tweets Are More Equal Than Others (So Do Not Feed The Twitter Trolls)

One of the ironies of Twitter is that when you start out you have more time to give to the people in your network. Why? Because it's smaller. But because it's small, you get less engagement. Less questions. Less demands on your time.As your following grows, and especially when you breach your tipping point, you get more engagement. More questions. More demands. Subsequently, you have less time to give.You have to prioritise. But how? And with whom?

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The Top Tweets In Small Business In 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

Many small businesses have come on board the Twitter train. It's a low-cost, effective marketing solution for one-person operations, small start-ups and other shops that can't afford a prime-time Super Bowl ad.The folks at Future Simple took a look at the most retweeted tweets from the small business community over the last year, and put them in an easy-to-read infographic.


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A World Of Tweets [INFOGRAPHIC]

Twitter users are scattered throughout the world, but this fact doesn't really hit home unless you visualize it.Take a look at this real-time, interactive infographic that tracks Twitter users across the globe.


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Kanye’s Tweets – Reenacted By Kids! [VIDEO]

Kanye West is well-known for his Twitter insights, offering little slivers of Kanye wisdom in each 140-characters. Tweets like "I've finally realized as long as you use profanity when you talk about art and fashion it's better accepted!!!" abound on his Twitter feed, with many in the Twitter-verse listening in, if only for the humor-value.So when we found out that the folks at BabelGum Comedy put together eight clips of Kids Reenact Kanye's Tweets, we just had to watch. And we think you should [...]

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Congress Asks Twitter To Censor Taliban Tweets

Joe Lieberman is heading up a movement in the US Congress that would like to see Twitter censor the Taliban's tweets, in order to "eliminate violent Islamist extremism propaganda" on social media.


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How To Delete All Of Your Tweets – Permanently

While we think Twitter is just the bee's knees, some people don't. Some people actually want to leave Twitter forever, without a trace. If this is something you've considered, we won't judge you. In fact, we're here to help: we've got the single best tool for deleting all of your tweets permanently, without a chance of recovery.


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Post scheduled Tweets from ANY Twitter client with the sweet Tweet4me service

Scheduled tweets are a thing of beauty. You can drop pithy comments in the middle of the night, while you're sleeping, remind your followers of something that you shared earlier,...

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Tweets by mail? This guy replicated Twitter via the postal system

This is probably the most unique idea spawned from Twitter that I've ever seen. One Twitter user named Giles Turnbull decided to see what would happen if he started mailing...

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Buffer Your Tweets Within Vienna RSS So They Get The Most Impact

Buffer is certainly shaping up to be the little Twitter app that could. It offers the simply functionality of scheduling your tweets to go live when they will be seen by the most people, but it does so in a big way.You can schedule tweets from your browser, smartphone, Twitter.com, email with Buffer, and now they've added a partnership with Vienna RSS to the mix to enable you to schedule tweets from within your RSS reader.


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Want to embed tweets but don’t have access to new Twitter? Here’s how.

We're sure you've noticed how bloggers are now able to embed tweets in their posts, making it a whole lot easier than ever to share tweets with their readers. The...

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TV Screening Of 1986 Japanese Anime Film Sets 25,088 Tweets Per Second Record, Says Twitter

Back in August, Beyoncé Knowles’ pregnancy announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards set a record on Twitter, with a very impressive 8,868 tweets per second (TPS).And as part of their #YearInReview series, Twitter published a list of all the major events on Twitter in 2011, with the typical entry generating a mark of somewhere between five and seven thousand TPS.Now, we have a new benchmark on Twitter. It happened in Japan, triggered an unbelievable 25,088 tweets per second, and took place duri [...]

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A Japanese show just set the record for most tweets per second

According to Twitter, the TV screening of the highly popular Anime, "Castle in the Sky," set a record for the most Tweets per second. Previously, Beyonce was responsible for the...

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Juror’s Tweets During Trial Cause Death Row Inmate’s Murder Conviction To Be Overturned

In 2010, Erickson Dimas-Martinez was convicted of murder for shooting and robbing a teenager after a party in Arkansas in 2006. Prosecutors stated that Dimas-Martinez was a cold-blooded killer without remorse, and demanded the maximum penalty.He was sentenced to be put to death by lethal injection.However, the supreme court has now thrown out the case, after Dimas-Martinez’s attorneys successful appealed against the conviction… because a juror used Twitter during the trial.

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Twitter just made it a whole lot easier to embed tweets anywhere on the Web

With Twitter unleashing a number of new updates to its website and mobile applications to help its users post their thoughts and discover new content, the microblogging service has made...

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Twitter’s #YearInReview: Which World Events Triggered The Most Tweets In 2011? [INFOGRAPHIC]

In the final part of their 2011 #YearInReview, Twitter has charted the top Tweets Per Second (TPS) moments of 2011.The biggest spike on Twitter this year came during Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards back in August, when the all-time record of 8,868 TPS was established. Other peaks this year included the resignation (and later, death) of Steve Jobs, the execution of Troy Davis, New Year’s Day and raid on Osama Bin Laden.

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WikiLeaks Associates Are (Still) Fighting To Protect Their Tweets From The Government

It's been almost a year since the US government issued a subpoena for the tweets and other Twitter-related information from WikiLeaks and several of its associates, and the battle is still being fought in court.


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