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Twitter may help this “classy” departing NYT deliveryman get new work soon

1/08/2012 Twitter News Posted in: classy,deliveryman,departing,twitter

The casualties of print media's decline, as it is squeezed by online news sources, go right the way down. When you add the current economic issues to the mix, many...

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Vote For Your Favorite Twitter User At The Shorty Awards

1/06/2012 Twitter News Posted in: awards,favorite,shorty,twitter

Is there a Twitter user that you simply adore? They're helpful, friendly, and unique, and you retweet almost every tweet they send. Now you've got a way to thank them: nominate them for a Shorty Award, a public recognition of their amazing tweeting.

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Twitter promises better tools to 400,000 volunteer translators, launches Swedish

1/06/2012 Twitter News Posted in: launches,promises,swedish,tools,translators,twitter,volunteer

Twitter has today reported that it has 400,000 volunteers working on translating the service into other languages. This crowd-sourced translation has allowed them to offer Twitter in 21 languages including...

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Twitter, in your language

1/06/2012 Twitter News Posted in: language,twitter

More than 400,000 volunteers have contributed to our Translation Center, which takes a crowd-sourced approach to making Twitter available in new languages. In fact, thanks to these passionate people all over the world, Twitter is offered in 21 languages. We’ve recently introduced it in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Polish — and today, we launch in Swedish.

As the number of volunteer translators grows, we’ll explore new ways to empower users to translate and localize Twitter for even [...]

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Learn From Best Buy’s Mistake: Your Twitter Account Is Not An Island

1/06/2012 Twitter News Posted in: island,mistake,twitter

Best Buy is well known for its Twitter-based customer service account @Twelpforce, which is managed by over 3,000 of its employees. However, it's having some trouble integrating this digital effort into its brick-and-mortar stores.

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Get Your Twitter Name Tattooed Onto An Athlete Just In Time For The Olympics

1/06/2012 Twitter News Posted in: athlete,olympics,tattooed,twitter

Now here's an entrepreneur for the digital age: an Olympic athlete is offering to tattoo the name of one Twitter user onto his arm in order to subsidize his training for London.

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

1/06/2012 Twitter News Posted in: billion,events,infographic,record-breaking,tweets,twitter

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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Kanye West Launched A Business On Twitter Last Night

1/05/2012 Twitter News Posted in: business,kanye,launched,night,twitter

Music man Kanye West took to Twitter last night in a frenzy, launching a business that would see "as many amazing powerful smart talented wealthy people…" get involved as possible.

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Twitter brand pages only have one chance to make an impression. Here are some tips.

1/05/2012 Twitter News Posted in: brand,chance,impression,pages,twitter

With Twitter making a lot of big changes at the end of 2011, one of the changes that we caught a glimpse of was Twitter brand pages. A few select brands were given...

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

1/05/2012 Twitter News Posted in: anti-social,doesn,tweets,twitter

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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Could Twitter Predict Election Results Better Than A Traditional Poll?

1/05/2012 Twitter News Posted in: election,predict,results,traditional,twitter

The Washington Post has created an app for election season that tracks Twitter and media mentions of all of the US candidates. And considering the real-time nature of Twitter, it could prove to be a better measure of public sentiment than traditional polls.

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

1/05/2012 Twitter News Posted in: equal,others,trolls,tweets,twitter

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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Cuba Blames Twitter User And “Necrophiliac Counter-Revolutionaries” For Castro Death Rumours

1/05/2012 Twitter News Posted in: blames,castro,counter-revolutionaries,death,necrophiliac,rumours,twitter

Cuba has accused Twitter of both starting and helping to spread a rumour that began on Monday that former leader Fidel Castro had died, suggesting that the social network helped spread disinformation about Castro’s passing by allowing the #fidelcastro hashtag to become a trending topic.The state-run Cubadebate website singled out one user for particularly harsh criticism, before suggesting that "necrophiliac counter-revolutionaries" worsened the situation by jumping on the story, and that Twitte [...]

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3 Ways to Cut Down on the Noise on Twitter

1/04/2012 Twitter News Posted in: noise,twitter

One of the most common reasons people give up on Twitter is because it's too "noisy". There are simply too many tweets that they don't care about, constantly streaming through their timeline. This noise is natural from a network that sees about one billion tweets sent out every week, but it doesn't mean you have to put up with it! Here are three ways to cut down on the noise on Twitter to have a more harmonious tweeting experience.

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U.S. Department of State will start answering your Twitter questions from the podium

1/04/2012 Twitter News Posted in: answering,department,podium,questions,twitter

Twitter is getting more involved with politics as it gears up for the 2012 elections. This time, the company has announced an official involvement. In a tweet today, the official...

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US State Department To Answer Twitter Questions Every Friday

1/04/2012 Twitter News Posted in: department,friday,questions,twitter

As part of its initiative to harness more digital technology for diplomacy, the US State Department will be taking questions via Twitter in 10 different languages, and answering them during a press briefing every Friday for the month of January.

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Corporate Twitter Accounts: the Good, the Bad, and the Just Plain Boring

1/04/2012 Twitter News Posted in: accounts,boring,corporate,plain,twitter

The inspiration for this post came from an incident that I had the other day involving a sandwich and a popular pharmacy chain. You see, having purchased my sandwich from Boots at the station and boarded my train home, I was enraged to find that one of the most heinous sandwich-related crimes had been committed [...]

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Would You Follow More Sports Stars On Twitter If They Had Their Usernames On Their Jerseys?

1/04/2012 Twitter News Posted in: follow,jerseys,sports,stars,twitter,usernames

Sports and Twitter have gone together like peanut butter and jam since day one. Sports stars have taken to expressing themselves pre- and post-game in 140-characters or less – and now Twitter is moving offline, and onto the players' jerseys.

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5 Tools To Talk To Your Favorite Celebrity On Twitter

1/03/2012 Twitter News Posted in: celebrity,favorite,tools,twitter

Alright, admit it: the first time you signed on to Twitter, you did a little search for your favorite celeb. There's nothing to be ashamed of. We've all done it. Twitter is a fascinating new medium in part because it gives the appearance that you're only a quick tweet away from those larger-than-life figures you've admired from afar. And while that might just be an illusion on the most part, there are several tools out there to help you stalk – erm… follow your favorite celebrities [...]

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Your New Year Wish Granted: Rupert Murdoch Signs Up For Twitter

1/03/2012 Twitter News Posted in: granted,murdoch,rupert,signs,twitter

Rupert Murdoch is tweeting, possibly signalling his readiness to take over yet another medium. The 80-year-old media mogul has been sending dozens of tweets since signing up on New Year's Eve – and despite getting into a bit of hot water with his (fake) wife's account, he's still tweeting up a storm.

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