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Twitter Tweeting Added to Oxford English Dictionary as it “Seems to be Catching on”

The word "tweet" has been around for quite some time, as it historically refers to that whistling sound some birds do. However, the Oxford English Dictionary is now adding it as a noun and verb, describing it as meaning "to post (a message, item of information, etc.) on Twitter." Read More >>

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Local Councils Forced to Welcome Live-Tweeters, Bloggers and Video Cameras

The hotbed of angst and bitterness that is your average local council meeting will now be fully open to the public, with Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Local Government, demanding local councillors let themselves be photographed, filmed and tweeted about while doing their business. Read More >>

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Twitter Now Shows You All Your Tweet and Follower Stats

Originally limited to advertisers upon launching in 2011, Twitter Analytics has finally opened its stat-tracking doors to all users. Although without a formal announcement, there's always the possibility that it's all a glitch—in which case, get it while it's hot/broken. Read More >>

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Kids Brag on Twitter and Adults Preen on Facebook, Says Self-Love Survey

A survey attempting to match the rise of social networks with the higher levels of narcissism seen in society has found a pretty strong dividing line between age groups, with younger users favouring Twitter and middle-aged narcissists preferring to use Facebook to illustrate and tell everyone how great they are. Read More >>

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HTC Wins Passive/Aggressive Twitter War With Samsung UK

That some grown-up people have been acting rather childishly on Twitter isn't really news, seeing as it happens approximately 50 trillion times an hour. But when it's Samsung and HTC having a pop at each other in public, it's a little more interesting. Read More >>

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TweetDeck Redesign Post Hits Early, and Christina’s Gonna Be Pissed

TweetDeck is pushing out an update today! But something went wrong at Twitter HQ, and nobody bothered to review the post announcing the update before it went live. Don't tell Christina. She's gonna be freaking LIVID. Read More >>

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How a Teenager Rickrolled Vine

You're only supposed to be able to upload a six-second clip to Vine—but somehow yesterday sixteen-year-old Will Smidlein managed to bypass that rule and post the whole of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". Uh, well done? Read More >>

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Vine for Android Is Finally Here, Huzzah

Vine, the very popular way to splice together six-second video vignettes, is now available for Android. Here's the Google Play link, which doesn't appear to be live just yet. Read More >>

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These Awesome Maps Show Off All the World’s Geo-Tagged Tweets

There are only so many place you can tweet from, and Twitter's been diligently indexing them all. These new visualisations from the Twitter team organised for this sort of thing show the history of all geo-tagged tweets since 2009 (when the feature was born) by location. We're talking billions of them. Read More >>

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7 Internet Faux Pas and How to Recover From Them

Everyone has felt that feeling. You posted something on Facebook that pissed off a friend. You Instagrammed a mortifying picture of your sister. They're pissed. How do you smooth things over? Read More >>

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Anonymous Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine and Gets Hacked

Probably while they're all sleeping, the closest thing the Anonymous collective has to an official Twitter account got hacked. @YourAnonNews is currently spouting lots of crap about "Jimmies" and "Rustling". It seems the hacker group known as the Rustle League hacked Anonymous. How does it feel to have the boot on the other foot, eh, Anonymous? Read More >>

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This Guy Proposed to His Girlfriend with… Vine

I don't even... This is just... I can't believe... okay. Breathe. Some guy used Vine and Twitter to propose to his girlfriend. As in he recorded a six second Vine video (selfie?) asking her to marry him, with a ring and everything. She didn't say no. Read More >>

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Twitter Finally Has Two-Factor Authentication: Here’s How to Get It

It's about damn time. After an endless, occasionally entertaining — but mostly disconcerting — string of high-profile hacks, Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to verify that yes, it is, in fact, you logging in. Read More >>

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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Tweet About Hitting People With Your Car #Bloodycardrivers

A mouthy lady driver has been shamed into deleting her entire Twitter account, after police began investigating her proud claim to have knocked a cyclist off his bike in Norwich. Read More >>

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Former HTC Product Manager Urges Staff to Quit the Company and be “Happier”

Poor old HTC would appear to be in a bit of internal turmoil, despite the stacks of praise heaped upon its recent HTC One model. Several high-profile staff have left the mobile maker, with one taking to Twitter to urge his mates still left at the business to walk out. Read More >>