A Twitter front end engineer has confirmed that the company is actively working on removing hashbangs, or “/#!/”, from their URLs.
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Create a clear, strategic approach to the way you use Facebook to market your business in our new Facebook Marketing Boot Camp. The online conference and workshop starts April 24. Learn more.

2012 will be the year of Adele, if award shows hold any water these days. She won a whopping 6 Grammys earlier this month, and took home 2 Brit Awards this week. But just how is she utilizing Twitter to connect to her fans that have propelled her to musical super-stardom?
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Eeezer have updated their monthly infographic on how airlines are using Twitter (see our updates on this for December, November, October and September.)

In a generally quieter month, Cebu Pacific has leapt to the most-mentioned top spot, ahead of December’s leader Air Asia. Volaris is a new entry at third.

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New versions of the official Twitter apps for iPhone and Android were released yesterday, both of which contain a wealth of new features, including a welcome return to Tweetie-style swipe functionality, as well as addressing concerns about the Find Friends feature that stored the phone contact lists of users without warning.

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You can use Twitter to sell a product, to create your brand or to become part of a community of experts – but if you don’t stand out from the crowd, you’ll quickly get frustrated. Increasing your follower count, and keeping them engaged, is all about adding something new to a conversation and making yourself heard. Here’s five ways to stand out on Twitter that you can implement today.
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The top four Republican presidential candidates are battling it out on televised debates, attack ads and, yes, on Twitter. So who’s winning the race in 140-characters or less?

The folks at Tweepsmap took a look at the Republican candidates’ Twitter followers on a state-by-state basis, to see who’s most influential in Texas, who’s rocking Alabama, and who’s leading the pack in Florida.
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Facebook might’ve hit the 1 billion user mark this summer, but Twitter is doing all it can to catch up: the network is poised to reach 500 million registered users as early as Wednesday.
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Twitter has inked a deal with Russian search engine Yandex to provide real-time search results to the leading search engine in Russia. The deal will give Yandex access to all public tweets directly from the firehose.
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We cover just about everything Twitter at AllTwitter.com, but one thing we do particularly well is provide advice, guides and tips as to how newcomers, veterans, businesses and brands can most effectively utilise their resources and maximise their returns on the network.

One of the most important lessons everybody needs to learn as quickly as possible on Twitter is how to manage your time most effectively. We know you’re busy. So, to help out, we’ve put together a one-page list of all the best and most popular Twitter guides we’ve ever published on AllTwitter, which should really expedite you on your way.

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In less than a decade social media has quickly established itself as an integral and increasingly essential part of the everyday lives of over a billion people worldwide, with seemingly no corner of the globe able to resist its temptatious grasp.

For both brands and users, social media has become incredibly important, even vital, and many now argue that access to these channels is a basic human right. Have platforms such as Twitter and Facebook moved beyond a want into something that we actually need?

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