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What Twitter’s horrific recruitment video says about the state of Silicon Valley

What Twitter’s horrific recruitment video says about the state of Silicon Valley

As much as it deserves a tirade about professional recruiting, brand positioning, and using human relations as a public relations...

Taliban on Twitter: How congressional attempts to block them is asinine on 2 levels

Taliban on Twitter: How congressional attempts to block them is asinine on 2 levels

Twitter is used by different people for different things. It's a communication tool for some, a news aggregator for others,...

Saudi Prince pumps $300 million into Twitter

Saudi Prince pumps $300 million into Twitter

Twitter's latest major chunk of backing comes from the Arab world as Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal invested $300 million...

Comparing the GOP presidential candidates… on Twitter

Comparing the GOP presidential candidates… on Twitter

Most would admit that President Obama did a phenomenal job of working social media during his presidential campaign in 2008....

Twitter closes deal to get “Tweet” trademark

Twitter closes deal to get “Tweet” trademark

They made the mistake in the beginning by not slapping a Trademark on the word that has become synonymous with...

Twitter denies blocking #OccupyWallStreet from trending

Twitter denies blocking #OccupyWallStreet from trending

When Justin Bieber stopped trending on Twitter, fans were up in arms. The #occupywallstreet hashtag has never trended and the...

Twitter’s most asked celebrity: Justin Bieber

Twitter’s most asked celebrity: Justin Bieber

If you use Twitter regularly, there's a good chance that you've seen something about Justin Bieber in your Twitter stream....

Nearly 3 years later, Twouble with Twitters still nails it

Nearly 3 years later, Twouble with Twitters still nails it

The buzz and obsession that once was Twitter has leveled off in the last year to a level that is...

Twitter cashes in on the 2012 election

Twitter cashes in on the 2012 election

Twitter is already a popular destination for political discourse, but the social network wants to beef up its involvement in...

Twitter and Bing continue their real-time search partnership

Twitter and Bing continue their real-time search partnership

The romance between Twitter and Bing will continue. The two announced the renewal of their real-time search partnership, fittingly enough,...

Twitterpalooza

Twitterpalooza

With much of the social media focus lately being on Facebook and Google+, Twitter has not received as much buzz...

TMI: Why sharing too much on social media is worse than we even thought

TMI: Why sharing too much on social media is worse than we even thought

It's a trap. Yes, here comes a conspiracy theory. Get your tinfoil hats on, quickly. Social media sites such as...

Home is where the brand is: Twitter vs Facebook

Home is where the brand is: Twitter vs Facebook

With all of the buzz surrounding Google+, people tend to forget that Twitter is nearly 10X bigger than the new...

Bitly acquires social publishing tool Twitterfeed

Bitly acquires social publishing tool Twitterfeed

Bitly, whose mission is to reinvent how people discover and share content on the web, has officially acquired Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed...

Was Obama’s Twitter Town Hall effective or simply a stunt

Was Obama’s Twitter Town Hall effective or simply a stunt

When Jack Dorsey from Twitter brought President Barack Obama to answer questions on the social networking site on July 6th,...

Twitter buys social analytics company BackType

Twitter buys social analytics company BackType

Just weeks after snapping up TweetDeck, Twitter has acquired social analytics start-up BackType. The company’s main product, BackTweets, has helped...

7 Cool Twitter Infographics

7 Cool Twitter Infographics

Twitter is a polarizing force. Most people, particularly those who are tech-savvy, either love the 140-character-social-networking-microbloggy-thingy or they despise it...

America: the Twitter perspective

America: the Twitter perspective

If you someone asked you where you were from, you would probably reply with your city or state. That's the...

How Twitter users are getting their questions answered

How Twitter users are getting their questions answered

Have you ever asked a question out to the world in hopes of getting a crowdsourced response? Millions of people...

Twitter: The who, why, and now

Twitter: The who, why, and now

Tens of millions of people use Twitter on a regular basis. While most agree that the numbers of users are...