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'Unlawful' Tweets Could Harm French Elections

On Sunday, a report published by Le Journal du Dimanche (in French) caused quite a social media storm over in France, as it suggested that the use of realtime social…

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Print out Your Own Roll of Toilet Paper With Tweets on it

Most of the tweets you read on Twitter are forgettable, at best. Some of them are pure gold and worth memorializing in some fashion. But how? A favorite? A retweet?…

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Super Bowl 46 Saw 13.7M Related Tweets

Not only was Sunday’s Super Bowl the most viewed sporting event ever on television, it was the most viewed television program ever with a whopping 111.3M viewers. That’s pretty impressive…

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Two Super Bowl Accounts to Follow on Twitter

Live events are always a hit on Twitter, with people tweeting throughout Presidential speeches or during a television show. One vertical has done extremely well when it comes to Twitter,…

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Twitter Does Remove Offending Tweets From Search

A report by SD Times yesterday tried to call attention to a suspected practice by Twitter to label users as “anti-social”, thus removing their tweets from search results on the…

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App.bg Pulls Together All Things Local

Even though Instagram, foursquare, and Twitter let you find all of the activity going on around you no matter where you are, one app brings local content from all three…

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Google+ Chrome Extension Brings Tweets Into Your Stream

If you’re both a Twitter and a Google+ user, you know that sometimes you want to post things in the same place. Or while you’re using one service, you think…

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Track political tweets with PolitickerUSA

Following politicians on Twitter can be as boring as watching paint dry on some days, but a new app pulls together tweets from both parties, and shows a whole host…

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X Factor's Simon Cowell Joins Twitter

In his first tweet, Media Mogul Simon Cowell has announced that he has joined Twitter, in the typical grand fashion we’re used to. Recently, X Factor announced that you could…

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Fluxels shows Tweets, one pixel at a time

Fluxels is one of the most interesting Twitter visualizations you’ll see. Or not see very well. The service pulls in the avatar of every person who is tweeting in real-time,…

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Tweetsheet makes Twitter infographics

If you use Twitter a lot, you know that the service only lets you see so much information about yourself. Twitter displays your number of tweets, followers, and the people…

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Thotly wants us to share our thoughts

We’re very familiar with the question that Twitter asks us, “What’s happening?”. Other than being a reference to an old TV show, Twitter is clearly about what’s going on in…

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Study shows 37% of tweets originate from Asia. Is that right?

A French company called Semiocast conducted a 24 hour study of 2.9 million tweets on June 22 and, using a language algorithm to determine self-identified physical location, found that 37%…