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It’s far from a scientific sample, but I noticed a lot of people in my Twitter feed over the past few weeks lamenting a lack of thorough media coverage surrounding the political crisis in Egypt. Certainly, when the George Zimmerman trial reached its apex, one might have assumed things in Egypt had reached a peaceful Continue Reading →

Twitter wants to prove it’s not just for broadcasting the mundane details of your life so it just launched the Twitter Media blog. The site plans to feature great uses of Twitter for “TV, sports, journalism, government, music, movies, social good and beyond.” It joins Google Inside Search and Facebook Stories as another media endeavor Continue Reading →

So what’s the most annoying thing about using Twitter across multiple devices? I don’t know, maybe it’s the fact that direct messages don’t sync. Well, Twitter is finally addressing that annoyance today by adding in DM sync. Finally! The update is being pushed out to seven different platforms: Android, iPad, Mac, twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com, TweetDeck and Continue Reading →

237-ish years ago, a great, nascent political experiment fought its way into being. A government of the people, by the people and for the people – just writing the words makes you feel proud. Like many Americans during these past few weeks, I have started to question the state of our Union, and wonder about "the government" in ways I have not wondered about it before. Continue Reading →

Twitter came under fire for its lack of credibility as a real-time news source during the bombings in Boston earlier this year, thanks to a variety of hoaxes and erroneous reports that were spread about those who were allegedly responsible for the attacks. But despite these obvious flaws, researchers with the Harvard Medical School who Continue Reading →

One of the best parts about watching a major televised event like the Academy Awards is following along at home on Twitter. But sometimes you might not be able to catch those events live, and watching them on DVR just isn’t the same without that constantly-updating Twitter feed. Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo knows how cool Continue Reading →

Twitter has enabled an automatic translation feature that allows English-speaking users to read the tweets of high-profile Egyptian Twitter users during the country’s high-profile time of political unrest, the company told us. While translation on the web through features like Google Translate are nothing new, the native translate button added to tweets makes it easier Continue Reading →

In a blog post on Wednesday, Twitter announced that they’re “experimenting with new ways of targeting ads,” which is their way of saying they’re planning to track you around the web—even when you leave Twitter—and relay that information to advertisers to craft better ads. Here’s how to opt out. If this sounds familiar, it should. Continue Reading →

We’ll admit that we haven’t been particularly impressed with the sponsored tweets we’ve been getting courtesy of Twitter’s current ad model. To address the issue, the service is toying around with a more targeted program, offering up ads to users from those businesses and brands they’ve shown an interest in. Rather than simply mining mentions Continue Reading →

Vine, the Twitter-owned video sharing application, announced on Wednesday a significant update to its iOS mobile application, just two weeks after Instagram unveiled its video product for the first time. Among the improvements, Vine will now let users choose whether or not they want posts to be public or private (think: Instagram’s protected accounts feature). Continue Reading →