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If you haven’t noticed, Twitter is slowly but surely taking over online, adding video and music to its already wildly popular service and attracting new users (their product) andadvertisers (their pay day) in droves. And just when you thought they were full to the brim withnew business, the greedy little bird comes back out for more – and this time it appears they plan to target Foursquare’s worm. How so? Well, Twitter is rumored to be working on local tweet discovery and once they’ve nailed THAT (and they will), how long till they start offering this service (with offers targeting local tweeters) to their advertisers? And that’s the EXACT value proposition Foursquare peddles.
Adam Popescu19 minutes ago Almost two and a half decades ago, CNN became a household name with its 24-hour coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf and Operation Desert Storm. Never before had viewers been literally bombarded with nonstop news coverage. The formula glued them to television sets and cemented the Ted Turner-founded company as a media giant. Fast forward to 2013 and things are less stable. Besides plummeting ratings and competition from the MSNBCs and Fox News's of the world, CNN is going toe-to-toe with social media. And "the most trusted name in news" is starting to get cold feet when it stares into the eyes of its young opponent. "Twitter is a frenemy," Jeff Zucker, CNN's president said last week at a luncheon at the Atlanta Press Club.
Today more than online games and videos, Social networking sites are the most used websites on the Internet. More than 50 percent of the world’s population is being connected through social networks.
It’s no longer just journalists delivering information. With social media, the power of information-sharing now rests in the hands of everyday people.
Here are 10 useful tips for searching Twitter, including how to find tweets by location and how to save searches for future reference.
On Twitter, the #hashtag is king. It's the key method followers and brands use to organize around interests, news, memes, and even e-commerce sales.But in recent weeks, many have started to question whether Twitter truly owns the hashtag.
Over the past several decades, scientific research has intensified and focused on analyzing the hundreds of unique bio-active compounds found in the medicinal Reishi Mushroom. Just this year alone, three new compounds were discovered. With each new finding, intriguing medical applications for Reishi have emerged. There is now a wealth of impressive data that demonstrates Reishi’s life extending properties1,2 but also its significant ability to stimulate brain neurons,3 search and destroy cancer cells4 and prevent the development of new fat cells in obese individuals.5 As an example of growing science supporting Reishi, researchers using laboratory mice have detailed life span extension of 9% to more than 20%—the equivalent of 7 to nearly 16 years in human terms.2,6,7 As if these targeted benefits were not sufficient, Reishi’s numerous compounds show a therapeutic effect on asthma,8 allergies,9 autoimmune diseases, 10-15Alzheimer’s16 and Parkinson’s diseases,17-21 diabetes,22-26 liver disease,27-36 and more. Given Reishi’s complex composition of bioactive compounds, there is still more to discover. In this report, we will bring you up to date on how Reishi successfully targets a broad spectrum of deleterious factors of aging.
Twitter has successfully begun to monetize with promoted tweets, but what's next for the slow-and-steady giant? Do we hear an IPO in 2013?
Five-year-old startup Aviary made headlines Monday after Twitter unleashed its new photo filters and effects. Aviary provides the mobile-software development kit that Twitter uses to add photo-editing tools to its Android and iPhone apps. Just minutes before Aviary CEO Avi Muchnick left his New York City office Monday night to celebrate, he gave Mashable insight into the news, which coincidentally came on the heels of Instagram introducing new tools, and disabling support for Twitter cards. "We've been working with Twitter for a few months," says Muchnick, who wouldn't elaborate on whether recent Instagram developments influenced the timing of Twitter's unveiling. "We've kept things moving as it was always supposed to be moving." When asked whether Instagram swayed Twitter's timing, a Twitter spokesperson told us, "No, we've been working with Aviary for months to introduce ways to edit and refine your photos, right from Twitter." Aviary, whose staff has grown to 21 employees since 2007, prepared for Monday's news by tweaking a statistic on its website, updating the number of photos edited in Aviary to 2 billion.
We're seeing chatter on Twitter that Instagram photos are not showing up in Twitter streams anymore. This is obviously interesting considering Instagram's recent moves to remove support for Twitter cards last week.
Twitter is rolling out an update to its search results that will put a new “Top Photos” section above matching tweets. “Top Videos” may also appear.
People talk about the risk posed by the immediacy of the Internet. Items can be posted with little thought about consequences, or made public by accident, and no matter how much deleting or editing you might do, the truth — as the kids say — is out there. Nowhere is this danger more evident than the Twittersphere.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, fresh from a day of smartphone Twitter app releases, said Tuesday night that his company saw Apple as a "mentor" to Twitter.
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Twitter for Mac isn’t dead! Twitter just released an update for the long-neglected desktop version of its app, bringing better photo uploads and Retina Display support. The app hasn’t received an update in nearly two years. The compose window has gotten an overhaul, with a nice new photo button that lets you pick a photo to share. The less discoverable older method which allows you to drag a photo into the tweet box still works, and all photos are uploaded to Twitter’s image service.
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Scrubbing your profile from a social networking site isn’t easy; more users make the site look better to advertisers. Here are some tools to make the break.
Over the last few days, thousands of people have taken to the Internet to play Sherlock Holmes.
Whether it's navigational tricks or keyboard actions, these handy Twitter shortcuts will save you tons of time.
Power out? No problem. twitter.com/Oreo/status/29… — Oreo Cookie (@Oreo) February 4, 2013 The above tweet has got 13000+ retweets and over 4000 ‘favorites’ on Twitter. What’...
A French Court ruled today that Twitter must identify its racist tweeters so they can be prosecuted, a decision that the social networking company is still evaluating.
Twitter has just taken aggressive action against one of the most powerful hacking groups on the Internet.
Instagram made a change this weekend that prevents previews of photos posted from the app visible on Twitter. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed at Le Web that this was intentional so that more users visit Instagram on the web and mobile. “This is an evolution of just where we are and where we want links from our content to go,” Systrom said. There is still an easy option for users to share their recent Instagram shots on Twitter, but they appear only as a link rather than as a full photo. It makes sense for Instagram to capture traffic from Twitter and bring users into its platform where they can comment, like or take other actions within its ecosystem — even if the experience is less ideal for users. But there’s something else at play here. Twitter is rumored to be working on its own photo filtering feature. The New York Times reported this in early November and this weekend AllThingsD reported that the feature could roll out before the end of the year. Instagram’s moves to stop showing its photos within Twitter could be a means of brand protection. It might not want users to confuse Twitter’s stylized photos with its own hallmark of vintage-looking square photos. It’s unclear whether Instagram will continue to let its images appear natively within other services or if the company’s issue is with Twitter specifically because of impending competition. Instagram photos appear full-size on Facebook, naturally because the photo sharing app is owned by the social network, but also because by integrating Facebook Open Graph, all Instagram activity is grouped on users’ Timelines and in the feed with links to view on Instagram and download the app. Facebook has a Camera app that includes filters, but it does not require photos to be square or include borders like Instagram does.
Ever since Twitter missed out on snagging Instagram, relations between the two tech companies have been strained. Twitter cut off Instagram’s “find friends from Twitter” feature, but Instagram found a work-around (of sorts) with @mention translations. But now, it seems Instagram isn’t happy with that. And it isn’t happy with merely beating Twitter for the share of daily mobile users. Instagram is the one the wants out and they’ve taken steps to permanently severe cross-platform sharing in the future. The New York Times shares that today Instagram disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos. And there’s more to come.
Politicians and celebrities love Twitter and have found that one tweet can cause a storm of sharing. It can enhance (or destroy) their personal brand and Politicians can get their ideas out instantly.
The role of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who returned to the company as executive chairman after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus from day-to-day operations, has been “reduced” after co-workers complained he was “difficult to work with” and “repeatedly changed his mind about product directions.” Although he is still involved in strategic decisions as executive chairman, no one directly reports to him anymore.
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