A group of about 30 popular Viners have teamed up to launch the ironically titled “Unpopular Now,” a riff on Vine’s “Popular Now” category.

In addition to sharing their Vines, the group plans to host contests and curations. There’s also an Unpopular Now Twitter account and YouTube channel.

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Twubs, creator of branded hashtag landing pages, has released a free, API-compliant Twitter chat tool that’s definitely worth checking out.

The service aggregates tweets from any Twitter client in real-time, cultivating high-quality engagement in the conversation and extra-effective moderation.

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A new study conducted by University of Michigan researchers Elliot Panek, Yioryos Nardis and Sara Konrath found that social media reflects and amplifies the culture’s growing levels of narcissism.

In the words of the researchers, “Facebook is a mirror and Twitter is a megaphone.”

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The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was the big tech story of the week, with the unveiling of iOS7, a new Mac Pro, new AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule devices, and a brand new Apple music product: iTunes Radio.

But, as VentureBeat pointed out, one detail overlooked in much of the coverage of iTunes Radio is that the service includes a Twitter #music trending station.

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New York-based startup Dataminr has secured $30 million in private funding from venture capital firms to continue its work mining Twitter for tradable news.

The fundraising round is Dataminr’s third since its founding in 2009 by former Yale University classmates Ted Bailey, Jeff Kinsey and Sam Hendel.

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Twitter has once again teamed up with Vizify, launching #FollowMe, a video tool that enables users to instantly create an animated portrait of their Twitter profile.

Each shareable movie depicts that user’s top tweets, photos and followers, set to a soundtrack pulled from a 1-million-song-strong catalogue provided by partner Rumblefish.

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A true sign of the times: the Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its entries for follow (verb), follower (noun), and tweet (noun and verb) to include the social media senses of the words.

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In January, we shared a tweet from Twitter Principal Designer Josh Brewer calling for “a few good men & women” to join the design team.

Twitter’s design department continues to expand – but will do so without Brewer at its helm. After three years with the company, he’s taking off.

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Twitter took the limelight in Congress yesterday.

Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, called out a BuzzFeed Politics reporter’s tweets in real time.

Here’s the deal.

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Ever wondered what the dollar value of one tweet is?

It’s a loaded question in any discussion of social media ROI.

SumAll, a data visualization analytics tool, has pinpointed the answer. Read on to find out how much one tweet is worth.

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