Did you wake up and find that your Twitter account looked a little different? You’re not alone: Twitter has announced that all of its users now have the new design that began rolling out back in December.
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Twitter Has iPhone Users’ Address Books, Too
After a developer discovered that the Path social-networking app was silently uploading iPhone users’ address books to its servers, a whole lot of other shoes — that is, other apps doing similar things — started to …
Is Twitter Really More Addictive than Alcohol? The Vagaries of Will and Desire
Twitter and Facebook are harder to resist than alcohol and cigarettes, but so is the urge to work, according to new research on people’s daily struggles with self-control and desire.
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Twitter Eclipses 12,000 Tweets Per Second During Super Bowl
Your tweet near the end of Super Bowl XLVI may have very well been lost amid a sea of other tweets, as Twitter has revealed that 12,233 tweets per second churned through its system “at the end of the game” last night.
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Newsflash: Two-Thirds of Tweets Boring, Says Study
Did you know that Twitter is full of inane, boring tweets that nobody wants to read? It’s true, according to science!
A joint study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, the Georgia Institute of Technology and MIT found that most …
Twitter’s New Censorship Policy: Up with Free Speech?
If — as some have suggested — Twitter is trying to cut down on free speech with its new censorship policies that were announced last week, then it’s not doing a particularly good job.
While the company described the new …
Life at Twitter Portrayed in Highly-Polished Recruiting Video
So bad, it’s good? So wrong, it’s right? Twitter’s purposely awful recruiting video might just be designed to weed out anyone who’s too cool to work there.
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#fail: Hashtag Revolts Show Marketing Doesn’t Work on Social Media
I admit that it’s rare for me to say, “You have to feel sorry for McDonald’s” and actually mean it, but after watching the failure of their recent attempt to turn Twitter to their marketing advantage, you actually do have to feel …
Social Media and Sports: Natural Teammates
Social media and sports are natural teammates. Enthusiastic fans are eager for updates on their favorite teams and the opportunity to rant about what went wrong in the playoffs or why their coach should be fired. On the flip …
Facebook, Twitter Engineers Thwart Google with ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Script
The fallout over Google’s personalized “Search, plus Your World” feature continues as engineers from Facebook, Twitter and Myspace have created a browser add-on that not only negates the effects of Google+-centric search, but …
Tweets-Per-Second Record Reportedly Shattered by Chinese Microblogging Service
If you thought that Twitter’s record of 25,088 tweets per second was impressive, you’ve clearly been spending the New Year with the wrong crowd. This weekend’s Chinese New Year celebrations saw 481,207 messages sent via Sina …
Google to Twitter: You Quit Us, We Didn’t Quit You
Prepare for a war of words (and tech blogs) as Google picks up Twitter’s implied “is what Google’s doing anti-competitive?” gauntlet and tosses it back with a nonplussed one-liner suggesting the whole kerfuffle’s actually …
