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Logitech Unveils “Tweet Tweet” Mouse

Logitech is seeing Microsoft’s Artist Series of mobile mice and raising them a serious dose of designer tech.

The new Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 Eye Candy collection of mice features four different designs with their own unique aesthetic touches.

The coolest of the bunch? The Twitter-inspired “Tweet Tweet” design.

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Take Your Twitter Efforts to the Next Level

AllTwitter Marketing ConferenceLearn how to maximize real-time marketing opportunities at  AllTwitter Marketing Conference, June 4 in San Francisco. Explore how your businesses can — and should — approach Twitter to drive engagement, awareness, and sales. Learn more.

A Virtual Carnival Game: TweetGenie Uses Your Tweets To Guess Your Age And Gender

A newly-developed Dutch program called TweetGenie has adapted the age-old (so to speak) carnival game of guessing a contestant’s height, weight, or birthday to the digital age.

TweetGenie can guess any Twitter user’s age and gender based solely on tweets, without a name or photo.

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NBC Running Twitter Sweepstakes For Its Fall TV Lineup

NBC’s already building buzz for its fall TV lineup, and its turning to Twitter for an assist.

Running from May 13 (yesterday) through June 13, NBC’s Fall Sweepstakes will reward one lucky Twitter winner the experience of a TV fan’s lifetime.

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Researchers Create “Geography Of Hate,” A U.S. Map Of Racist And Homophobic Tweets

Prompted by the recent prominence of cyber bullying and online hate crime, a group of geography academics called Floating Sheep has a created a map called the “Geography of Hate,” a visual display of tweets that are racist, homophobic or ableist (discriminatory against people with disabilities) across the U.S.

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New This Year At The Chelsea Flower Show: A Tweet-Controlled Garden

Now you don’t need a green thumb to be a skilled gardener – all you need is a thumb, period.

At this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, May 21-25 in London, Twitter users will be able to control the appearance of one of the display gardens.

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Twitter Testing Its App For Google Glass

A tweet from an official Twitter Glass app has been spotted, meaning the roll-out of said app can’t be far behind.

Jonathan Gottfried, Twilio’s Developer Evangelist, has already built an unofficial Google Glass app called GlassTweet.

But if Twitter itself is working on a Glass app, that’s a whole different story.

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#TornadoWeek Tweets Creating Ruckus At The Weather Channel

Some places are really good at harnessing the power of Twitter – and others are so GREAT at it, it blows you away.

Take the Weather Channel for instance. They’ve decided to actually harness tweets (for reals) by using them to power the wind speed in the office as it blows (with increasing power) on poor interns trying to do their work.

It’s not only a great idea, it’s pretty fun to watch! (There’s also a live feed.)

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Measure The Spread Of Your Tweets Over The World With “Where Does My Tweet Go?”

A new online application called “Where Does My Tweet Go?” lets you examine exactly how a tweet spreads through Twitter.

The service, still in beta and created by information architect Benoît Vidal along with the team at MFG Labs in France, uses a visual algorithm to illustrate how your messages spread among both your followers and strangers.

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New Comic Book Biography Focuses On Twitter Co-Founder

If you’re a fan of comic books, SciFi or Twitter – or ALL of that stuff – you’ll find THIS pretty fantastic.

Bluewater Productions is releasing a comic book biography this week that “tells the story of one of the innovators that have changed the digital world forever, Jack Dorsey, the co-Founder of Twitter.”

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Twitter UK Presents #Flock, A Tweet-Powered Cuckoo Clock

Here’s a cool new project that demonstrates that when things happen on Twitter, they can power things happening in the real world.

Produced by the talented team at BERG design consultancy and powered by BERG Cloud, #Flock is a cuckoo clock powered entirely by tweets.

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