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Overheard: Twitter To Remove Hashbangs From Its URLs

Lauren Dugan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:20:51 +0000

A Twitter front end engineer has confirmed that the company is actively working on removing hashbangs, or “/#!/”, from their URLs.
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Adele Sweeps The 2012 Brit Awards On Twitter, Too [INFOGRAPHIC]

Lauren Dugan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:15:58 +0000

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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How Airlines Used Twitter In January – @CebuPacificAir Flies Above @AirAsia [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:02 +0000

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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Twitter Updates iPhone, Android Apps, Restores Tweetie Swipe, Warns About Contacts Upload

Shea Bennett — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:00:21 +0000

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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5 Ways To Stand Out On Twitter

Lauren Dugan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:23 +0000

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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Who’s Winning The Twitter Republican Primary Race In Each State?

Lauren Dugan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:45:21 +0000

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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Twitter To Surpass 500 Million Registered Users On Wednesday

Lauren Dugan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:30:14 +0000

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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Russia’s Yandex Partners With Twitter For Real-Time Search

Lauren Dugan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:15:51 +0000

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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20 Twitter Guidebooks, Resources And Tip Sheets That Turn Newbies Into Pros

Shea Bennett — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:06 +0000

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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Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn And The Hierarchy Of Needs [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:00:56 +0000

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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Why Your Business MUST Go Social [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:57 +0000

In just a few short years, social media has allowed businesses of all shapes and sizes to build large, highly-engaged communities of fans and customers, raising brand awareness, driving traffic to e-commerce portals and boosting sales.

It’s as recent as 2006 that both Twitter and Facebook opened their doors to the general public, but the world has changed dramatically in that time. Some 80 percent of Americans now use at least one social network – that’s over 245 million people.

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This Week On Twitter: Pinterest vs Twitter, Social Media History & Why Twitter Users Are Sexier

Shea Bennett — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:30:36 +0000

Need a little weekend reading? We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes a look at the rise of new social network Pinterest, the history of social media, how to join a Twitter hashtag chat, using Twitter’s advanced search features and how Twitter users are getting more under-the-cover action than their Facebook counterparts.

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Users Spend More Time On Pinterest Than Twitter, LinkedIn And Google+ Combined [STATS]

Shea Bennett — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:30:51 +0000

Social pin-boarding site Pinterest is getting a ton of hype at the moment. It seems that every tech blog is waxing lyrical about Pinterest’s rapid ascent to 10 million uniques, the site’s broad appeal to female users and its traffic-driving power. Heck, even Mark Zuckerberg has signed up.

Lots and lots of hype. But is it deserved?

Well, here’s another pro-Pinterest stat: American users of the social network spend an average of 1 hour and 17 minutes on the site, well ahead of Twitter (36 minutes), LinkedIn (17 minutes) and Google+ (6 minutes). In fact, Pinterest gets more monthly usage than all of these other platforms combined.

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Twitter Offering Access To 30 Days Of Historical Tweets Through Gnip

Lauren Dugan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:00:46 +0000

There are plenty of social media evangelists who believe Twitter can predict election results, or how many people will buy the latest smartphone, but we often forget how powerful historical data can be.

Twitter is now offering access to 30 days of historical tweets, so you can view who was saying what about your brand before the intern tweeted that off-color joke.
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This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: Virgin Atlantic, Purple Strategies, PMC

Nadine Cheung — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:45:32 +0000

This week, Virgina Atlantic is hiring a corporate communications program manager, while Purple Strategies is on the hunt for a social media campaign manager. PMC is looking for an SEO specialist, and PlayMesh is seeking a backend game developer. Get all the details on these openings below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.

Corporate Communications Program Manager Virgin Atlantic (Norwalk, CT)
Social Media Campaign Manager Purple Strategies (Alexandria, VA)
SEO Specialist PMC (Inglewood, CA)
Backend Game Developer PlayMesh (Cupertino, CA)
iOS Developer Social Point (Barcelona, Spain)

For more job listings, go to the Mediabistro job board, and to post a job, visit our employer page. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.

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