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Twitter shuts down Tweetdeck to fix nasty vulnerability

It’s been a rocky Wednesday so far for Tweetdeck, to say the least. The popular Twitter-owned dashboard app has been… Read More

Xbox enables Twitter TV integration for Xbox One, adds 45 more apps including Vine, Major League Gaming

Twitter and the Xbox One are joining forces. As its June Xbox update rolls out globally starting today — which gives… Read More

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams: Not all foreign tech giants are a threat

The perceived threat by foreign companies on U.S. tech giants is totally over hyped. Or, at least, that was the opinion floated yesterday by… Read More

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams sees companies stressing aesthetics and design, not core technologies

Evan Williams is known for engineering some of the more popular consumer platforms today. He founded Blogger, now owned by Google,… Read More

Facebook launches new Shazam-like feature for mobile status updates

Facebook users are going to see a more music- and TV-filled News Feed soon. The company announced today that it… Read More

E-commerce meets social: Amazon racks up 157K #AmazonCart tweets in 2 weeks

Amazon.com introduced #AmazonCart earlier this month, giving customers an easy way to add items they see on their Twitter feed… Read More

Finally, Twitter debuts a tool to mute annoying users without unfollowing

Have you ever wanted a way to tell someone on Twitter to stop tweeting so much about something that really annoys… Read More

Amazon shopping hashtags won’t be a boon for Twitter

Amazon will not be sharing revenue with Twitter when a person adds an item to his or her shopping cart… Read More

Meet #AmazonCart: An easy way to add items to your shopping cart while on Twitter

Buying books, diapers or has never been so easy. Amazon.com today unveiled a new service called #AmazonCart, which allows customers… Read More

Twitter CEO: People know what Twitter is, we just need to convince them to use it

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo doesn’t think the company has a problem introducing people to its platform. Instead, he said Tuesday… Read More

Twitter beats expectations with $250M in revenue, but user numbers disappoint

Twitter announced today that it brought in $250 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2014, up more than… Read More

Facebook takes a shot at Twitter with new content aggregator for journalists

Post by FB Newswire.   Today, Facebook unveiled FB Newswire, a service designed to help journalists find up-to-the-minute information about… Read More

New UW football coach lifts Twitter ban for players, brings in social media advisor

During his previous coaching stint with Boise State University, Chris Petersen made sure to keep his players off Twitter. But now,… Read More

A dirty cloud? Amazon and Twitter receive failing grades in ‘green Internet’ report

Facebook, Google and Apple are considered leading innovators when it comes to deploying renewable energy to power its data centers… Read More

Pew study: Half of Facebook, Twitter users find news on social media

Pew’s annual State of the Media report reveals some interesting data on the relationship between social media and digital news consumption in… Read More

Two thumbs up 2.0: How social media affects our behavior at the movie theater

Social media tools are changing the movie theater experience before, during and after seeing a flick on the big screen.… Read More

Twitter hops in the wayback machine to offer a glimpse at your very first Tweet

In preparation for its eighth anniversary, Twitter has launched a new website that allows users to take a look back… Read More

Researchers look to flag false rumors on Twitter during breaking news events

Twitter was both a useful and detrimental tool during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. While the service helped people find… Read More

Twitter tips: How to engage more people with your tweets

If you want ways to get more people re-tweeting your content, Twitter has some advice. The social media giant analyzed… Read More

Twitter is down, let the freak-out commence

Twitter has been down for the past 15 minutes or so. We’ve been unable to update our feeds from both… Read More

Twitter app now shows live sports scores, tweet stats for certain search queries

Twitter has already put together some sweet sports-related infographics utilizing the wealth of tweets it has about a certain game or… Read More

Twitter smashes expectations with $243M in Q4 revenue, but user growth slows

Twitter reported today that its revenue for the fourth quarter of 2013 reached $243 million, up 116 percent year-over-year, marking a… Read More

At least Denver won something: Broncos dominate Super Bowl conversation on Twitter

The Seattle Seahawks completely obliterated the Denver Broncos in just about every facet of Sunday’s Super Bowl. Off the field,… Read More

How Twitter’s engineering teams maintain great company culture

As Chris Fry and Raffi Krikorian talk about Twitter’s ambitions as a company, the phrase “change the world,” is repeated numerous times. Lots of… Read More

Photos: A look inside Twitter’s new Seattle engineering office

Google and Facebook have already opened up a permanent office in Seattle. Now, Twitter can say the same. On the 20th… Read More

Social media study: Here’s how the world’s top brands effectively use Twitter

Most of the world’s top brands have utilized Twitter as a marketing tool, but some are doing better than others… Read More

Facebook launches Trending section, so users can keep up with what’s hot

Users of Facebook have a new way to get news in their News Feed. The social networking company just announced “Trending,”… Read More

Twitter’s new web site design: Love it, or hate it?

For users of Twitter’s web interface, it’s a brand new day, design-wise. The social network is in the process of… Read More

Syrian Electronic Army hits Microsoft…again

It’s a bad month to be one of Microsoft’s social media properties. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/422093475224371201 The Syrian Electronic Army managed to take… Read More

Want to win free tickets to the Seahawks game? You better follow T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Twitter ASAP

Let’s just recap John Legere’s past few days. The outspoken T-Mobile CEO got booted out of a Macklemore concert hosted… Read More

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