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For social sharing, Apple turns to Twitter again
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Apple’s decision to unfriend Facebook has turned out to be a boon for third-party social services that are now finding their way into Apple operating environments. The biggest winner of them all is Twitter. In iOS 5, Apple integrated Twitter. And just like that the company saw “sign-ups more than double...
A Super Social Bowl
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You could have watched the Super Bowl without checking Twitter or Facebook, but you probably snuck at least a few peeks in throughout the game. And a lot of you ended up typing something, too. Bluefin Labs, a “social TV” startup that analyzes commentary during TV broadcasts, says it saw...
Most viewed US television program ever, Super Bowl 46, saw 13.7M related tweets
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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 alone, and the game has the tweets to go along with it. Today Twitter gave us some more stats to...
Twitter CEO rules out buying an Instagram-rival: We have our own strategy
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has insisted that Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram will not sway the microblogging service into buying a similar photo-sharing service, the Wall Street Journal reports. Comments from Costolo, who was speaking in Japan where Twitter is “aggressively” hire for its advertising business, appear to go...
Flipboard CEO Mike McCue expresses concern over Twitter's myopia, shortly after quitting its board
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Serial entrepreneur and ‘social magazine’ startup Flipboard founder and CEO Mike McCue recently stepped down from Twitter’s board. He quit at a time the social networking company is irking a large part of the oh-so-crucial third-party developer community in a bid to gain more control over the overall user experience....
Twitter Announces New Design With Focus On Profile Pages, iPad Update On The TODAY Show
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Today, Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo announced XXX on the TODAY Show, live. The show teased “big changes” coming to Twitter, and drew it out pretty well giving a company tour. The company announced that there are over 140 million users, with 340 million tweets per day, currently. Twitter also has...
Twitter to tackle abuse on site
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Social networking site Twitter is looking to introduce measures to prevent "hate speech" and abuse, chief executive Dick Costolo says....
Twitter Is In Trouble In Brazil Because Drivers Are Tweeting To Avoid The Cops
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Twitter has a problem in Brazil — the government is suing the company for nearly $300,000 because citizens have been using it to avoid traffic controls, The Next Web reports. This also means that, yes, Brazilians have successfully been using Twitter to get around police presence on roads, like...
Twitter to roll out ad products to 50 more countries
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Latin America and western Europe to be the first to get promoted tweets as network ramps up efforts to generate revenueTwitter has unveiled an aggressive expansion of its advertising products, with a rollout planned to 50 countries by the end of the year.The expansion marks the next stage for the...
FACEBOOK FALLOUT: Suddenly It Feels Like Google Is Actually Going To Buy Twitter (GOOG)
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Thanks to the fallout from the Facebook IPO, it's starting to feel like Google is going to finally acquire Twitter in the next many months. First there was our report from last week how Google's M&A team seriously regrets not buying Twitter "when it could." For the same report, a source close to...
Twitter Product VP Satya Patel Steps Down As Its Products and Ad Business Grow
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Satya Patel joined Twitter in March of 2011, after a four-year stint as an investor with Battery Ventures. He took on the big job of managing the company’s core product as well as its growing advertising business. But now, as its ads business is starting to take off, he’s leaving...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wants to be bigger in Japan, “aggressively” beef up sales staff
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Twitter is aiming to increase its sales operations in Japan as it focuses on developing its business Japan, as part of its efforts to grow revenue from overseas, Bloomberg reports. Speaking during a visit to Japan, CEO Dick Costolo revealed that the company will “aggressively” hire more sales staff in the...
ON THE HOT SEAT: 10 Tech CEOs Who Could Be Fired Tomorrow (YHOO, AOL)
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Millions of people use your product, but none of them pay. The SEC is investigating. You don't own the rights to the content. Your stuck at number two. A 5% stakeholder just started a proxy war. Life as a startup CEO isn't easy.Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, has got...
Twitter is finding success with monetizing mobile and Facebook should be taking notes
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Much of the trepidation heading into, and of course immediately after, Facebook’s IPO, the big question was how the company was going to monetize its growing number of mobile users. According to Reuters, Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo says that his company has no such problem. Costolo spoke at a conference...
Twitter Posts A Profit In The U.K.
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Twitter, which is inching towards an $11bn (£6.8bn) US stock market flotation, posted profits of just £16,500 in the much-delayed maiden accounts for its UK subsidiary. It is too early to tell, however, whether the microblogging website will adopt the kind of financial structures favoured by other internet firms such...
Twitter breaks 400 million tweet-per-day barrier, sees increasing mobile revenue
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Twitter just keeps on growing. CEO Dick Costolo took the stage at The Economist's Ideas Economy: Information 2012 event today and offered a bit of information about how Twitter is doing behind the scenes. Yes, the company just "took flight" with a slightly-modified logo, but arguably bigger news is...
Twitter Is Working On A Tool To Let You Download All Of Your Old Tweets
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Twitter is finally working on a solution to one of the most obvious things missing from the social network right now: the inability for users to find their tweets that are more than a few weeks or months old. Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo told The New York Times that the...
Newfangled Aggregator Trapit Hires an Old-Timer: Yahoo Editor Liz Lufkin
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Liz Lufkin used to have a big say about what most of the Internet read. Now she wants to do it again. The difference is that at Lufkin’s last job, running the home page for Yahoo, she helped shape the daily media diet for hundreds of millions of people a...
Twitter hits 400 million tweets per day, mostly mobile
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that mobile usage and revenue are outpacing the desktop web version, and that he doesn't concern himself about an IPO. [Read more]...
Flingo Gets $7 Million for a Second-Screen Bet
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More money pouring into the “second screen.” This time it’s $7 million for Flingo, via August Capital. Flingo is best known as “the video start-up run by the guy who used to run BitTorrent.” And so far, CEO Ashwin Navin has been concentrating on building “smart TV” apps that you’ll...
Twitter’s big problem: It still needs better filters
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Things couldn’t be better at Twitter, CEO Dick Costolo told attendees at a conference on Tuesday, saying the business is going “phenomenally well,” and the company is “confident we have a hit on our hands” with its Promoted Tweets feature for advertisers. So why launch yet another new version...
Twitter Brings You Closer
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For anyone who is interested in Twitter, what is going on right now in the company, where they are headed, and why, this 30min interview with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is worth watching. I particularly like the last minute of the Q&A session at the very end. So if you...
Twitter opens office in Korea, puts focus on localised features and partnerships
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Twitter is intent on expanding its profile in Korea, focusing on launching localised features and building partnerships with brands and celebrities in the country, the company announced in a press conference today. According to Yonhap News, Twitter has earmarked Korea as one of its most important markets, thanks to its...
Finally, You Can Download All Of Your Entire Twitter Archive (Here's How)
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Twitter has begun allowing members to download an archive of all their tweets, so they can look back on their entire history on the microblogging network for the first time. The firm revealed it was working on the new feature in July, but only began making it available to members...
Twitter gets splashy new look, iPad design
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on the Today Show this morning that Twitter is launching a new look that allows users to highlight photos and media. The new design is reminiscent of Facebook’s Timeline, and provides users with a more personal and visual feel. The most conspicuous feature is a...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wants 'a world where people build into Twitter,' not off of it
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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has reiterated many of the storylines we've been watching from the social network for some time. He pointed out that the company hopes to become a hub for events both large and small, which lines up with...
Partnering With Twitter To Tell A Bigger Story: Q&A With Vizify's CEO
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Twitter is ephemera by definition. If you missed the joke, the hashtag or the pop-up account borne out of an awkward moment on stage with Clint Eastwood and an empty chair, well... the moment's over. But Twitter is also a repository of billions of such moments, many of them considerably...
Twitter Pushes to Boost Site's Utility
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In an interview Monday with WSJ, Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo outlined priorities for making the short-messaging service more useful--efforts that could also put the company into increasing conflict with its allies....
Twitter UK posts profits of just £16,500
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Microblogging website, which is expected to float for $11bn, records meagre profits in British subsidiary's first accountsTwitter, which is inching towards an $11bn (£6.8bn) US stock market flotation, posted profits of just £16,500 in the much-delayed maiden accounts for its UK subsidiary.It is too early to tell, however, whether the...
Twitter's Pitch Deck for Big Advertisers (Slides)
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Twitter’s ad business is looking less like an experiment and more like a real business, one that could generate $1 billion a year in the not-too-distant future. If Twitter ads really take off, it will be because CEO Dick Costolo will have figured out how to sell lots of little...
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