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5 Tools That Will Turn Your Twitter Page Into A Book

Dianna Dilworth — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:15:00 +0000

Twitter is a great place to share your thoughts and idea and for those of you that want to save your tweets page for posterity, there are a number of companies that will let you create print books out of your Twitter pages.

We’ve put together a list of five of these companies that will print out your favorite tweets, Twit pics and Twitter conversations, so that you can save them as a book. Below find our list of companies with descriptions about what their services do and a link back to their sites.

5 Tools That Will Turn Your Twitter Page Into A Book

1. Twournal: “Twournal allows you to create, buy and sell twitter books printed from your tweets. All Twournals have color covers, can include replies and photos from services such as Twitpic and Yfrog in color or black and white. You can choose a custom picture for your front cover. Select which tweets you want to start and end at. And you can add a dedication message to appear after your title.” continued…

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Twitter #MothersDay PSA: Don’t Tweet, Call Your Mom

Phi Tran — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:03 +0000

Mother’s Day is Sunday and the least you should do is call your mother - said Twitter. The social media site issued a witty public service announcement boasting about Twitter’s sharing platform quickly after Google’s Mother’s Day tribute this week.

Hopefully moms everywhere will enjoy breakfast in bed, a steady stream of thank-you’s and family fun. While moms are enjoying these and many other Mother’s Day traditions, it’s a safe bet they’ll also sneak a peek at Twitter. After all, moms (and moms-to-be) are doing everything from securing Twitter accounts for their babies to live-tweeting their C-sections to sharing funny motherhood experiences.

But even as much as moms love Twitter, we know that mom loves you the most.

While Google opted for a sweet, syrupy promotion for Google Plus, Twitter opted to tell users that social media doesn’t replace everything. That said, if you don’t have time to visit your Mom this Sunday, video hangouts with her on Google Plus is pretty great every day. Click here to compare the two ads. continued…

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Project Your Tweets On The Wall At Events with Tweetwall

Dianna Dilworth — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:35:19 +0000

Tweetwall, a company that lets organizations project a live Twitter feed on a wall for clients like CNN, eBay and Microsoft, has launched a new iPad app that will allow anyone to create their own “tweetwall.”

The Tweetwall iPad app uses Apple’s Digital AV adapter or AirPlay to allow you to display content from your event on a TV or through a projector.

Here is more from the app’s listing in iTunes: “To make your life just a bit easier, the iPad app supports geolocation allowing you to be just one tap away from viewing your Tweetwall (you need to provide the venue address during the setup for your Tweetwall). You can also search for events.” (Via TechCrunch).

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Hugh Jackman Will Bring More Women to Twitter on Thursday than Actual Women on Twitter

Phi Tran — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:00:34 +0000

The world’s hunkiest mutant, Hugh Jackman, will be appearing on Twitter this Thursday to please his legion of female fans (myself included). Jackman will be responding via videos to questions sent to @RealHughJackman or @WolverineMovie in order to promote his latest movie, The Wolverine, which appears in theaters on July 26.

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TweetDeck Apps Will Stop Working May 7th

Dianna Dilworth — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:25:43 +0000

Twitter client TweetDeck will be removed from iTunes and Google Play on May 7th, according to the latest update on the TweetDeck blog.

Twitter acquired the app in 2011. Back in March, Twitter explained plans to shift its direction including the intention to close the iOS and Android versions of the app and the idea of focusing on its Web app and its Chrome app. The site updated this post last week with more details. Check it out:

TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone will be removed from their respective app stores and will stop functioning on May 7. Our Facebook integration will also stop on May 7.

(Via ZDNET).

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Twitter Music Discovery App Finally Launches

Phi Tran — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:30:51 +0000

Twitter’s music discovery app is finally here so you can join the likes of Moby or Jason Mraz in singing (or tweeting) its praises.

The mobile and web app is similar to the Hype Machine:

Today, we’re releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity front and center: go to their profiles to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists. And, of course, you can tweet songs right from the app.

Users on iTunes can only hear song previews so log in to Spotify and Rdio to hear full songs. continued…

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Twitter Launching New Music Discovery App This Weekend

Phi Tran — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:00:01 +0000

Twitter is orchestrating a major launch of its newest venture with help from celebrities and a fairly quiet webpage. Twitter is expected to use technology from its latest acquisition, music start-up We Are Hunted, to drive its standalone platform.

Many websites are reporting that the app would launch today, but it appears that the media giant will wait until this weekend to make an announcement during the music festival Coachella. Meanwhile, Twitter has enlisted the aid of pop culture icon Ryan Seacrest to spread the good word:

lovin the app…shows what artists are trending, also has up and coming artists… spinning u now @frankturner

— Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest) April 11, 2013

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Twitter Has Acquired Music App We Are Hunted

Dianna Dilworth — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:45:32 +0000

Twitter is getting into the music streaming business. The social networking company has agreed to acquire the San Francisco-based music streaming startup We are Hunted, in a deal whose terms were not disclosed.

The company is shutting down wearehunted.com, but the We are Hunted team will continue to create music services under the Twitter brand name.

Here is more from the We are Hunted blog: “There’s no question that Twitter and music go well together. Artists turn to Twitter first to connect with fans, and people share and discover new songs and albums every day. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on at Twitter.”

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De Niro Doesn’t Take Videos on his Phone but Thinks You can Tell a Great Story in 6 Seconds

Phi Tran — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:30:15 +0000

Founders of the Tribeca Film Festival Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal are bringing the moving pictures experience to digital audiences via video streaming and a huge support for Vines. This year is the first year in which the festival have opened up a public competition in search of the best Vine, and De Niro has some positive words to say on the medium despite not being a regular user:

Six seconds of beginning, middle and end. I was just trying to time on my iPhone six seconds just to get a sense of what that is. It can actually be a long time. One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand, four one-thousand, five one-thousand, six one-thousand – you can tell a whole story in six seconds. continued…

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Twitter Users Happiest When Far Far Away From Home

Phi Tran — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:32:23 +0000

Computer Scientists from the University of Vermont have concluded that, “Expressed happiness increases logarithmically with distance from an individual’s average location.” In other words, Twitter users are happier the farther they are from home.

The researchers analyzed 37 million tweets from 180,000 users in 2011with public location feature enabled. Most users gravitate between “home” and “work” which accounted for their average location. There was a notable lack of negative words like “hate” when users were further from home at restaurants or beaches. One surprising finding was about laughter (“hahaha”) – it was more inherent when users were closer to home.

Via MIT Technology Review

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Could a Tweet Start a Thousand Wars?

Phi Tran — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:00:25 +0000

Residents of Yokohama, Japan may have been a bit surprised today when they saw the city’s official Twitter account broadcasting that “North Korea has launched a missile.” The erroneous tweet went out to 40,000 followers with about 3,000 retweets before the city took down the original tweet and apologized for its mistake.

Global tensions are high due to North Korea’s threat of nuclear weapons and Japan is readying its Patriot missiles to fend off real missile attacks from North Korea. continued…

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FireMe App Tracks Tweets From Employees Who Hate Their Boss

Dianna Dilworth — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:55:07 +0000

Dislike your boss? Better be careful how you express these feelings on Twitter, because your tweets could end up getting you fired. FireMe! a new web app from Germany tracks what people say about their bosses on the social networks. Bosses can use it to see what their employees are saying about them (though they can also just check Twitter pages directly if they suspect some ill tweets are going out about them from specific users).

Here is more from the site: “Our goal is to raise awareness about the danger of public online data.
Most people are not aware that, on the internet, once said, you can never take it back. All tweets shown here are publicly available on Twitter. So don’t blame us, instead get responsible.”

Worried about what you’ve tweeted? The app has a tool that will let you check your own Twitter account and will score your Twitter handle based on your tweets. (Via The Huffington Post).

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Twitter Discontinuing Older TweetDeck Apps

Phi Tran — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:05:36 +0000

Twitter announced it has chosen to discontinue older Tweetdeck apps in order to focus on its web app client. Tweetdeck for iPhone, Android and Air will also be removed from their respective app stores in May and the apps will no longer work.

Native apps for Mac and Windows will continue to work but will no longer see improvement. The company also quietly stated that it would discontinue support for Facebook integration, but offered little details on when and how.

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Curate Twitter Content With ShadowMe iOS App

Dianna Dilworth — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:56:17 +0000

Tendy Apps has upgraded its ShadowMe for Twitter discovery app in a move to make it easier for iOS users to view curated Twitter feeds

Using ShadowMe, Twitter users can “shadow” people that they have selected as interesting and view what these folks see in their own personal timelines. The latest upgrade includes two new features, the “group shadow” and the “suggested shadows.”

The group shadow lets organizations curate lists of conversations to follow in one news feed. For example, the non-profit organization NIMBY created a Group Shadow of its events using the handle @NimbyProject. Fans can use the feed to see tweets from NIMBY and everyone else involved with the charity in a consolidated feed.

The suggested shadow feature includes lists by category of interest curated by experts and celebrities from that category of interest. For example, the ShadowMe Stand Up list is curated by comedian Ben Kronberg. The list includes tweets from about 100 different comedians chosen by Kronberg in one consolidated feed. ShadowMe Chick Lit is curated by New York. There are 60 suggested shadows on varying subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, fashion and business.

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David Cross’s Latest Feature Film Debuts in its Entirety on Vine

Phi Tran — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:00:28 +0000

Independent film company Oscillope Labs is debuting its feature film, It’s a Disaster, in its entirety on Vine – six seconds at a time. Since the video looping app only allows users to create videos using a mobile iOS device, the video clips are recordings of the film shown on a home television. The film stars Julia Stiles, America Ferrera, David Cross (of Arrested Development), and Todd Berger (Kip from Parks and Recreation). The story follows a couples brunch that goes awry when dirty bombs threaten the city.

The film is set to be released for digital on-demand viewing on March 5 followed by a limited release in theaters. According to director Todd Berger, “Jean-Luc Godard once said that he pities French cinema because it has no money and American cinema because it has no ideas. Well this is certainly an idea.” The company’s humorous press release states that Oscillope Labs is aiming to bring its media to as many media as possible: continued…

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