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The much-lauded Twitter-based hedge fund by Derwent Capital Markets only traded for a single month before the company shut down all tweet-based operations – but they’re not done with Twitter yet.
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Those still receiving daily Summify emails – which compile the top social posts from Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader – will have to start looking for a new way to curate their social feeds: Summify is shutting its doors on June 22, just five months after being acquired by Twitter.
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Are you traveling this Memorial Day weekend? Planning to do a little shopping, too?

You’re not alone. IBM’s Social Sentiment Index, which aggregates public opinion from Twitter, blogs, message forums and other social media channels, has revealed a 46 percent increase in the amount of conversations about Memorial Day travel over last year.

And there’s good news for retailers, too – the ratio of positive to negative comments about shopping this weekend is up five fold on 2011.

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For some reason, high school and even college students around the world seem to think that they can post threatening messages on Twitter without consequence.

There are adults guilty of doing this as well no doubt, but just as dog attack stories always focus on pitbulls, teens seem to bear the brunt of these bad behavior reports. We would all do well to learn from these students’ mistakes.
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Over 32,000 tweets-per-minute were sent on Twitter this weekend, as Chelsea triumphed dramatically over Bayern Munich during the Champions League Final.
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At the JPMorgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference held in Boston today, attendees learned that Verizon plans to do away with unlimited data plans.

And as word spreads through the Interwebs, folks are voicing their displeasure on Twitter.
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This is a cautionary tale for any of your “over-sharers” on Twitter or Facebook: A CFO of a major fashion company lost his six- to seven- figure job over company-related tweets.
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The overall spend on social advertising is on track to reach $9.8 billion by 2016, says a new forecast from media research firm BIA/Kelsey.

$3.8 billion was spent on social advertising in 2011, which indicates overall growth in this space of some 250 percent over the next five years.

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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of not one, but two, billion dollar start-ups – Twitter (of course) and the quite awesome payment processing reader, Square, has won countless awards for his ingenuity.

We can now add another accolade to this undoubtedly extensive list. And although he hasn’t won this award before, Dorsey just generally wins in life it seems – hence the “Wins Again” headline.
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It’s been less than a year since Twitter opened their London offices, but new data from the micro-blogging company has revealed how popular the network has become in the United Kingdom.

The numbers are impressive: Twitter now has 10 million active users in the UK, and 80 percent of those access the platform via mobile.

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