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Twitter Preps Journalists For 2012 Election Coverage

Lauren Dugan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:02 +0000

Twitter is looking to train journalists to cover the 2012 Presidential elections in 140-characters or less.
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This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: Yahoo!, Addmired, Atari

Nadine Cheung — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:45:08 +0000

This week, Yahoo! Entertainment is hiring a social editor, while Addmired is in need of a UX artist. Atari is looking for a mobile producer, and Imagination is seeking a healthcare editor. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.

Social Editor Yahoo! Entertainment (Santa Monica, CA)
UX Artist Addmired (Palo Alto, CA)
Mobile Producer Atari (Watertown, NY)
Healthcare Editor Imagination (New York, NY)
Events and Social Media Coordinator Youth Renewal Fund (New York, NY)

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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Justin Bieber Vs. Lady Gaga Vs. Katy Perry: Who’s Most Influential On Twitter? [STATS]

Lauren Dugan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:34 +0000

They’re the Twitter heavyweights, the tweet elite, the upper echelon of tweeps society. Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry are the three most-followed Twitter users of all time, and now they’re about to face off to see who is most influential among their tens of millions of followers.
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Biz Stone Clarifies Twitter’s Stance On Censorship And China

Lauren Dugan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:15:07 +0000

This guest post comes to us from tech blogger Will M. You can follow Will at @BetterPath.

“They should have asked me write that,” Biz Stone says about a blog post on Twitter.com that set off a global controversy. Twitter’s new technology is “a huge win for free speech” Biz insists, and regrets that people are only hearing “Twitter is censoring now” in the uproar around the post.
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Which Super Bowl Advertiser Is Generating The Most Twitter Buzz? [VISUALIZATION]

Shea Bennett — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:22 +0000

The Super Bowl is one of the most prestigious – and expensive – advertising opportunities available to brands. Last year, 46 minutes of ads were shown during the FOX telecast, and some $1.72 billion has been spent by advertisers on the Super Bowl in the past 10 years.

On Sunday, a 30-second ad spot will cost a heady $3.5 million. So, the big question is: what sort of buzz are marketers getting for their money?

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TwitterPeek, The Mobile Twitter Handset That Promised Free “Lifetime” Service, Dies An Early Death

Shea Bennett — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:53 +0000

TwitterPeek, the mobile, Twitter-only device that offered no contract unlimited tweeting, has been killed off. Peek, the company that makes the handset, have decided to scrap the product, which was only available in the US, because it’s “seriously old” and the service only has a “handful of users”.

TwitterPeek was launched in 2009, and those “handful of users” aren’t happy, as many of them shelled out $299 for the promise of a lifetime service. Which, in this case, added up to about 28 months.

(Which seems about right in internet years.)

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How Many Retweets Did Your Top Tweet Get?

Lauren Dugan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:00:33 +0000

If you’re an avid tweeter, you might’ve noticed Twitter’s retweet cap: once a tweet hits 50 or more retweets, the counter sticks at “50+” – so you can’t tell whether the tweet got 51 retweets or 1,051.

But the days of retweet ambiguity are behind us, now that Twitter has lifted this cap. And to celebrate, the kind folks at TwitSprout have created a website to show you what your top tweets were, and exactly how many retweets they got.
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South Korean Man Thrown In Jail For Retweeting The North

Lauren Dugan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:45:35 +0000

Amnesty International is urging South Korea to release a man they have in custody. And his crime? Retweeting their Northern enemy.
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Twitter Users Complain That 25% Of Tweets Aren’t Even Worth Reading [STUDY]

Lauren Dugan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:30:40 +0000

So you’ve chosen to follow a select few hundred Twitter accounts, taken the time to cull them from the millions out there. They’re your information super highway, a constant stream of great, insightful tweets… except when they’re not. Apparently, Twitter users think that a quarter of all tweets they see aren’t even worth reading.
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Which Team Leads The Twitter Pre-Super Bowl Buzz? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Lauren Dugan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:15:11 +0000

Sports fans flock to Twitter to discuss their big game in real-time. And there aren’t too many games bigger than the Super Bowl.

This weekend, millions of football fans are going to be tweeting as fast as their favorite players sprint and weave down the field. And we’ve got the pre-Super Bowl Twitter buzz here just for you. So whether you’re rooting for the Giants or the Patriots, you’ll want to take a look at how Twitter’s gearing up for the first play.
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Twitter’s New Brand Page Rollout Continues, Includes Volkswagen, NBC And The Huffington Post

Shea Bennett — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:40 +0000

Twitter’s new-look brand profile pages, which the company announced back in December with select partners, has began a larger rollout, with several major brands now sporting the redesign on their Twitter profiles.

Twitter brand pages include a customizable header image, pinnable tweets and other features… but it comes at a hefty price.

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Pinterest Now On Par With Twitter, Google For Driving Traffic, Says Study [STATS]

Shea Bennett — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:00:26 +0000

A new study from content-sharing firm Shareaholic has revealed that the social sharing platform Pinterest, which was established less than two years ago, is now the fastest-growing site for referral traffic.

In January, Pinterest drove only a fraction less referral traffic than both Twitter and Google, and more than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined.

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5 Twitter Secrets To Become Highly Visible In Your Niche

Lauren Dugan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:00:58 +0000

Without the proper understanding of just how powerful Twitter can be, many people feel like they’re just one small voice trying to be heard in a very large, very crowded room. It’s frustrating when you have great ideas that you want to share, but you simply cannot be heard above the noise.

We’ve got 5 ways you can increase your visibility within your niche, and build a powerful presence on Twitter so your the one controlling the conversation rather than being lost in it.
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NYC Criminal Court Has Subpoenaed Twitter In Occupy Wall Street Case

Lauren Dugan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:45:35 +0000

The City of New York is bringing criminal charges against a key member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and as part of its case it has subpoenaed Twitter for more than 3 months of his communication.
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4411 Copyright Infringement Claims Filed Against Twitter In 2011

Lauren Dugan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:30:25 +0000

It’s a good thing SOPA didn’t pass, or else over 4,000 Twitter users would be facing some serious legal troubles… and, in all likelihood, so would Twitter itself.
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