The micro-blogging site has gained 60 million new users in just 9 months. In March this year Twitter announced that the site had over 140m monthly active users. Twitter announced today that the number has now risen to over 200M monthly ...
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Lately, I've heard a lot about a new website that shows what percentage of someone's Twitter followers are "fake," "inactive" and "good." If the Fake Follower Check site is accurate, some of the biggest Twitter users, including President ...
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Twitter proven to stimulate sales,new study shows. Twitter users who see Tweets from retailers are more likely to make an online purchase,according to results from Twitter's'Tweets in Action:Retail'study. 27 per cent of general ...
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Pope Benedict XVI will extend his online presence to Twitter and start answering questions put to him via the social network in English and seven other languages. The official Papal handle is @pontifex, the Vatican announced on Monday, ...
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Cyber criminals are using compromised Twitter accounts to distribute messages disguised as coming from friends who suggest recipients click on a link to see themselves on a Facebook video. Sophos reported the trick after receiving a ...
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New visualization tool will search, analyze, and display tweets in the context of location and time LIDV Solutions today announced that a new Twitter visualization feature will be available for the forthcoming releases of its Visual ...
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Twitter released a report on Monday about the user information requests it has received from governments this year and how it responded to them. The data shows that the U.S.government asked for information on far more users than any other ...
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IDG News Service-Pope Benedict XVI will extend his online presence to Twitter and start answering questions put to him via the social network in English and seven other languages. The official Papal handle is@pontifex,the Vatican ...
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Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
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Twitter has apologised after telling members their accounts had been hacked and forcing them to reset their passwords. Twitter sent out a"large number"of emails telling members to change their log-in details,but gave no indication of the ...
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UK-Every October,London dawns the colour pink.From pins and ribbons,to billboards and taxicabs-pink can be seen all over the city.It's all part of an international campaign to raise awareness of breast cancer,those affected by it,and the ...
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It's been evident for several years now that Twitter is a monetising, highly effective business commodity. Be it sponsored tweets, increased SEO click rates from well-distributed retweets and appearance in the right lists, having a social ...
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Computerworld-Twitter is looking to take the country's temperature when it comes to the presidential election in November. The micro-blogging site today launched the Twitter Political Index,a tool to show in real time the popularity of ...
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Twitter users are being targeted by tweets containing malicious links that claim recipients are pictured in an online photo. These malicious links are being spammed across the micro-blogging site, warned security firm Sophos. The ...
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Twitter is teaming with NBC to make it easier for users to take in all the tweets about the upcoming Olympic Games. NBC Olympics , an arm of the NBC Sports Group, announced this week that Twitter will gather tweets about the London 2012 ...
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