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Pew social media study: Facebook still king; Pinterest more popular than Twitter

Kids may be leaving Facebook, but that isn’t enough to take the network down from atop the social media pedestal.… Read More

Trending tech hashtag goes viral: Here are 10 truly awesome #FiveWordTechHorrors

[Update, Wednesday, 10:20 a.m. PT: We’ve added the graph above courtesy of Simply Measured. The company told us there were 96,651 tweets… Read More

Tech employee survey: Twitter is the best place to work, LinkedIn 2nd, Facebook falls to 3rd

Twitter trumps Facebook — at least in employee approval ratings. That’s just one of the findings from Glassdoor’s sixth annual Employees’… Read More

Twitter rolls out big update for iPhone and iPad app

Twitter for iOS has received some big updates today. First and foremost, the app has been completely redesigned, and now… Read More

Apple, Microsoft, Google and other tech rivals urge Obama, Congress to curb snooping

While they’re usually fierce competitors, an octet of leading technology companies have banded together to ask the U.S. to take… Read More

Here’s why the new University of Washington football coach keeps his players off Twitter

Update, 2:10 p.m — We caught up with UW president Michael Young and added his comments to this story When… Read More

Twitter inks partnership with Deutsche Telekom

Twitter has partnered with German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom to “create a unique experience” for Telekom’s mobile subscriber base. At… Read More

Apple buys Ignition-backed Topsy to boost its social cred

The Apple acquisition train keeps on rolling. This week, the Cupertino-based company scooped up Topsy Labs, a startup that specializes… Read More

Twitter strengthens encryption to help impede spying

Twitter announced today that it has beefed up the security of its traffic as a way of better protecting its… Read More

Oops: Seahawks caught using Twitter bots to promote #Seahawks hashtag (updated with team comment)

Update, Nov. 13 5:10 p.m.: We caught up with Josh Decker, CEO of Tagboard, the Seattle-based social media company specializing in… Read More

Twitter’s 1st day as TWTR: Shares closes at $44.90 after opening at $45.10

Day 1 as a public company is in the books for Twitter (TWTR), which saw a relatively steady day on the… Read More

In light of IPO, here’s why employees love working at Twitter

Twitter became a public company today, setting an opening price of $45.10 with a market value of $24.5 billion. The… Read More

Twitter shares open at $45.10 with a market value of $24.5B

History was just made as Twitter began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The opening price was set at… Read More

Twitter prices IPO at $26 per share, expects to raise about $2 billion

Twitter, naturally, just tweeted its IPO price at $26 per share in anticipation of Thursday’s debut of TWTR on the… Read More

Go get ’em Twitter, but remember your roots: 4 hopes on the eve of the big IPO

Three years ago, I founded my third company. I left my old company, risked my livelihood (again), put my social… Read More

Pew: 8% of Americans find news with Twitter, 30% with Facebook

Last week, Pew told us that 30 percent of Americans find news on Facebook — even if they aren’t actively… Read More

Onion co-founder says satirical publication ‘doesn’t make a lot of sense in the future’

The Onion’s hilarious, degrading and matter-of-fact satirical headlines and stories have made people laugh for more than two decades. But… Read More

Seattle generates more nationally-trending topics on Twitter than any other U.S. city, study says

At least according to Twitter, Seattleites are trend-setters. A new study out of the Indiana University shows that Seattle has… Read More

Tweet-a-Coffee: You can now buy a Starbucks latte for a friend via Twitter

Here’s something that coffee-crazed and tech-mad Seattleites will certainly love. Starbucks is launching a new partnership with Twitter called Tweet-a-Coffee… Read More

Twitter functionality causing data drain on Windows Phone

If you’ve been noticing your Windows Phone is using up unexpectedly huge amounts of data, you’re in good company. First… Read More

Vine update adds support for drafts, “Time Travel”

Have you ever wanted to re-arrange the order of video snippets in a Vine that you shot? Now you can.… Read More

WhatsApp

WhatsApp has more monthly active users (350M) than Twitter

WhatsApp might not be as widely known as Twitter, but it is definitely just as popular in terms of users.… Read More

Advice for success: Here’s Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s daily to-do list

Jack Dorsey has done pretty well for himself, helping create social media giant Twitter and then founding the uber-popular mobile… Read More

Twitter’s losses reach $133.9M this year, up 89% from 2012

Yes, Twitter doubled its revenue in the third quarter of this year. But updates to the company’s S-1 filing today also… Read More

Twitter now employs 2,300, adds 300 in last three months

Twitter made some amendments to its S-1 filing today, revealing that it will list shares on the New York Stock… Read More

Twitter jumps into personalized breaking news with @eventparrot

Twitter has long been touting its capabilities as a breaking news service. When something big happens, odds are there’s someone… Read More

Comcast subscribers will be able to watch TV directly from a tweet

If you’re a Comcast subscriber, soon you’ll be able to watch a TV show by simply clicking on a link… Read More

Try again, Twitter: Updated app takes Windows Phone to new levels of frustration

Hey, that looks like an interesting story in that random tweet on my Windows Phone lock screen. I’d like to… Read More

Chart: Zulily is bigger than Twitter, and grew faster over the past 3 years

Twitter is grabbing a lot of headlines with its plans for an initial public offering, and rightfully so with a… Read More

Networks can now track social media chatter with Nielsen’s Twitter TV ratings

TV networks can now tell how successful shows were compared to others on Twitter with a new tool from Nielsen.… Read More

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