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Posted at January 15, 2012 by 0 Comment

Not At Any Price: Twitter Denied Data To Google And Bet On Itself

If Twitter continued to sell its firehose to Google, fewer searches would occur on Twitter’s internal search engine where the microblog platform can serve its own ads. That’s why sources familiar with the negotiations tell me Twitter wouldn’t renew the data access deal at any price, or at least set a ludicrously high price to sink the deal. Cash and increased visibility on Google Search was more valuable to Twitter in 2009 when it was still trying to gain serious traction. But by July 2011 Twitter was more established and ready to try monetizing without Google. A firehose deal would ...

Category : Staying Social,Twitter
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Michelle Obama Joins Twitter

First Lady Michelle Obama officially joined Twitter on Thursday under the handle @MichelleObama. Obama and her staff will be using the account – which has already raked in nearly 60,000 followers as of late Thursday morning — throughout the campaign to connect with voters. “We’re excited today to launch @MichelleObama as a new way for you to connect with First Lady Michelle Obama and the President’s Campaign,” the account tweeted. “This account will be managed by campaign staff, with any tweets from the First Lady herself signed ‘-mo.’” Soon after, “First Lady” and “Welcome to Twitter” began trending on the site, ...

Posted at January 12, 2012 by 0 Comment
Category : Staying Social,Twitter
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Twitter dumps on Google’s new search revamp

On Tuesday, we reported on Google's major revamp of its search service. That revamp included adding information to search results generated from Google's own Google+ social network. Now AllThingsD.com reports that in a rather unusual and public move, one of Google's rivals, Twitter, is speaking out against these changes: Twitter is concerned that Google's changes would not allow "tweets" from its hundreds of millions of users to show up in Google's new search results. Its full statement is as follows: For years, people have relied on Google to deliver the most relevant results anytime they wanted to find something on the ...

Posted at January 11, 2012 by 0 Comment
Category : Google+,Staying Social,Twitter
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Warner Brothers launching photo sharing social network

Likely announced during CES week, Warner Bros Advanced Digital Services is prepping a photo sharing service called Out My Window according to a report from Fusible. Users can visit www.outmywindow.com and enter an email address to be notified when the photo sharing network launches. Using the tag line “Share your view at the speed of life,” the one-page site also tries to market the concept with “A perfect picture. The urge to share it. From my view to your view. From my phone to your TV. With Out My Window, our photographs will always weave the stories of ...

Posted at January 08, 2012 by 0 Comment
Category : Facebook,Google+,Staying Social,Technology News,Twitter
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PayPal UK Twitter Account Hacked

Another day, another high-profile hack. The Twitter account of PayPal UK was hacked Tuesday and used to post links to an anti-PayPal site. “This account was hacked earlier. We have it in our control now. Your personal data is still 100% safe, hack occurred on Twitter not PayPal,” tweeted PayPal UK after regaining control of the account late Tuesday. The rogue tweets posted links to paypalsucks.com, an “anti-PayPal site exposing the nightmare of doing business ‘the PayPal way.’” The tweets were later removed by PayPal UK. In ...

Posted at July 06, 2011 by 0 Comment
Category : Staying Social,Twitter
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