Yesterday’s US Presidential Election set some new records, not the least of which was recently re-elected President Obama’s victory tweet which has become the most retweeted tweet in history.

So with all of this political tweeting going on, how did you participate? Did you encourage others to vote on your social networks? New figures from Pew show that if you did, you’re part of a very vocal, very active political group using social media.
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Twitter launched a weekly email digest service in May, summarizing your network’s activity into a single easy-to-read email that was sent to your inbox every week. And now they’re expanded the frequency to daily digests, if you’re into that sort of thing. Here’s how to set it up.
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Twitter is set to launch Promoted Products in the Middle East and Northern Africa region, in a bid to attract more global advertisers and increase its revenue.
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Social media is often talked about a a great marketing tool, but it can be equally powerful when it comes to customer relations management (CRM). Here’s how top brands are using Twitter, Facebook and other networks to develop strong relationships with, and gather data from, their customers.
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If you’ve been using Twitter as a marketing tool for your business, you’ve probably already come to terms with the fact that simply counting the number of followers you’ve got doesn’t cut it. When it comes to measuring social media, you’ve got to go deeper.
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Twitter has updated its copyright policy to allow for increased transparency when dealing with controversial and legally-ambiguous tweets. In order to keep account holders informed of their possible infringement, Twitter will now withhold tweets – instead of outright deleting them – if they face a copyright takedown complaint.
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If you’ve been seeing some nasty comments about the 2012 election on Facebook or Twitter lately, you’re not alone: discussions surrounding both Obama and Romney have been much more negative than positive on social media throughout the entire campaign.
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It’s no Lady Gaga meat dress, but X Factor judge and former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls Nicole Scherzinger was sporting a Twitter outfit at Thursday night’s EE gala in the UK.
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Hurricane Sandy’s effects are still being felt along the East Coast of the United States, with many people turning to Twitter for updates during the storm’s peak.

And despite the many good Samaritans who provided support, updates and help in 140-characters, the top Twitter news story to come out of the storm this week is probably the Twitter troll who misled thousands with his deceptive tweets.
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We’ve all felt a twinge of of Twitter envy from time to time. This account breaks news faster than us, that account has more followers… well, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!

There’s a brand new app that lets come as close as possible to actually becoming someone else on Twitter, shadowing their timeline to see exactly what they see when they log in.
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