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Twitter Ups the Privacy Ante Ahead of Facebook’s IPO

May 18, 2012   Alicia Eler

Twitter fired another salvo in the privacy wars, announcing that it will allow users to block it from recording their wanderings around the Web. Take that, Facebook!

Twitter announced plans to support the proposed Do Not Track HTTP header, a W3C…

Facebook IPO: Did Twitter Crowdsourcing Just Give Us the Closing Price?

May 18, 2012   Chris Taylor

When you get a lot of smart and interested people together to make a prediction in aggregate, it can be scary accurate. Anyone who has read the James Surowiecki business science classic The Wisdom of Crowds, and a host…

Twitter Wits Roast Facebook IPO

May 18, 2012   Sam Laird

Albert Brooks

The film star, director and author breaks the news to the star of the Social Network.Click here to view this gallery.In case you’ve been living under that metaphorical rock these past several weeks, Facebook‘s much anticipated IPO…

Alyssa Milano Takes Over NHL Twitter Account for Playoff Game

May 17, 2012   Sam Laird

Actress Alyssa Milano will take over the National Hockey League’s official Twitter account for Thursday night’s playoff matchup between the Los Angeles Kings and Phoenix Coyotes. The game starts at 9 p.m. EST.
It’s the first time the hockey…

Bitly Raises $20 Million

May 17, 2012   Mike Fossum

URL shortening platform bitly has just raised $20 million in a round of funding, roughly double it garnered last time around. Bitly had been the default URL shortener on Twitter since 2009, replacing TinyURL, until Twitter introduced its own shortener…

Twitter Will Dig Into New Users’ Browser History, Offer Suggestions

May 17, 2012   Sam Laird

Twitter wants to make new users feel more at home on the microblogging network, so it’s changing how it recommends who you should follow when they sign up.
The company is beginning to tailor suggestions for new users —…

Smoothies, The Facebook IPO, and Strippers

May 17, 2012   Josh Wolford

Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.
And what better way to wind-down the work…

Twitter Experiments With Personalized User Suggestions

May 17, 2012   Chris Crum

Twitter announced that it is conducting some personalization experiments for users. Specifically, Twitter is trying to tailor user suggestions (suggestions for people to follow) to people’s specific interests.
“These tailored suggestions are based on accounts followed by other Twitter users…

The Top 10 U.S. Cities With Social-Savvy Small Businesses

May 17, 2012   Samantha Murphy

Small businesses on the West Coast of the U.S. are far more social-media savvy than those on the East Coast — with companies in San Francisco and Los Angeles leading the pack, according to a new study.
Small business…

Twitter will honor Do Not Track in all supported browsers including IE9, Safari 5.1 and Firefox

May 17, 2012   Matthew Panzarino

Earlier today, Twitter announced that it would be supporting Mozilla Firefox’s Do Not Track mode in an effort to honor users privacy. Now, it has posted a new help document that clarifies its position: it supports DNT in all browsers that…

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