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Twitter announced on Thursday that it would begin linking its microblogging service with Apple’s new ‘Ping’ music-oriented social network. “Starting today, Ping, iTunes’ new social network for music, and Twitter are making it even easier for people to share music discoveries with their friends by putting Ping activity, song previews and links to purchase and download music from the iTunes Store …
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New Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is wasting no time getting down to business. The micro-blogging service announced yesterday that it’s teaming with Apple’s Ping, the new social-networking service for iTunes users. The partnership aims to make it easier for people to share video and music content and iTunes…
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Apple and Twitter have forged an arrangement that allows posts from Apple’s Ping music social networking service to appear on Twitter. The new venture lets users of both services link their Ping accounts to Twitter, so that any posts, likes or music purchases can automatically appear on their feed. The integration also gives Twitter followers a view of the album or song information in the detail …
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The media’s in trouble. The microblogging sensation is on fire. Can Biz Stone’s latest gambit help prop up a financially crippled industry? Howard Kurtz reports.
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Twitter users are taking to the microblogging site by the thousands to support, Spartacus-style, a British man whose angry tweet landed him in trouble with the law. In January, Robin Hood airport in northern Britain temporarily closed. Paul Chambers of…
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Thousands of Twitter users are uniting in a campaign that will go down in social-media history as #IamSpartacus. The Twitter firestorm comes after a U.K. man was convicted of violating British communications law.
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Biz Stone , a co-founder of Twitter, and Sean Garrett , the company’s director of communications, visited The Times this week to talk about the current state of Twitter and plans for the company over the next few years.
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Twitter and Apple are now syncing up to let iTunes users of the Ping social network port their posts as Twitter tweets, a pairing that could spur Facebook to connect with Ping.
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An English politician was arrested on Thursday for joking on Twitter that a columnist he disagreed with should be stoned to death.
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Twitter is well-known for carefully metering out access to its Firehose, or the real-time stream of all its users’ tweets. Last year, Google reportedly paid $15 million for access to the Firehose, Microsoft $10 million, and Yahoo joined later with a cash and revenue-share deal.
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Haven’t heard much about Ping lately? Ping, remember? That’s OK. The buzz volume has been pretty low on Apple’s iTunes-based social network for music since it was launched a couple of months ago. But when buzz is lacking, what better…
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While Apple has been criticized for a “walled garden” approach to content, that’s not the case for its social network, Ping.
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Unveiling Apple’s new music-focused social network Ping in September, chief executive Steve Jobs described it as “sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes.”
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One million people registered for Apple’s music-centric social network in the first 48 hours it became available in September. But some evidence indicates that Ping may be having trouble keeping their attention.
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November 10, 2010–NewTeeVee Conference, San Francisco–A Twitter executive speaking here today says more and more people are using Twitter to add a social and community element to boring old TV-watching.
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Twitter’s Director of Media Partnerships Robin Sloan spoke Wednesday about the role of tweets in the television landscape at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco.
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Hoping some of Twitter’s fairy dust will rub off on them, other start-ups have moved into the same building in San Francisco.
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Evan Williams and Biz Stone will make an appearance on the late night talk show.
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Twitter jokes about bad wine and a lack of handsome men in Vietnam by one of Philippine president Benigno Aquino’s speechwriters has led to a social media crackdown on government officials.
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Twitter is testing out a new feature that will enable businesses to claim their Place–expanding the functionality of its geolocation feature. The move could make Twitter Places much more valuable as a business tool and potential marketing platform, and puts Twitter in direct competition with Facebook and Foursquare.
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A bogus Twitter account in his name was used to distribute the photo of an NRL star and a dog.
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Twitter may be preparing to expand its location sharing services to take on Foursquare, at least according to a screen shot doing the rounds. The shot (above) shows an expanded Twitter Places service, with the ability to check-in to a specific venue now value added with a Foursquare like venue page. The venue page shows [...]
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About five months ago Twitter launched Twitter Places to provide tweets with more “context.” Matt covered it with enthusiasm and imagined its potential: the marriage of location and real-time communication.
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Twitter Inc. began expanding its Promoted Tweets advertising program to include ads dropped into the timelines of some Twitter members. The San Francisco microblogging service said it is rolling out the ads to some of…
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Twitter has allowed users to tweet their location via its Places feature for a while now, but now it looks like the company is taking Places a step further with a feature that lets businesses “claim” a location or place.
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