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Kim Dotcom teases new 'secure' and private Mega email, chat, voice, and video services

By Dante D'Orazio on February 16, 2013 09:54 pm + 56 comments

As part of a (brief) rant on Twitter today about the dangers of using web services that are based in Continue reading…
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BlackBerry Creative Director Alicia Keys tweets from iPhone, pins blame on hackers

By Dan Seifert on February 11, 2013 05:48 pm + 262 comments

BlackBerry announced pop music star Alicia Keys as its new Global Creative Director to great fanfare Continue reading…
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Map tweets in real time across the world with Tweet ping

By Dante D'Orazio on February 1, 2013 04:55 pm + 17 comments

We're all familiar with the gorgeous photos of Earth at night, but what if our world was lit up by Continue reading…
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Twitter redesigns embedded tweets to show retweets, favorites, and more content

By T.C. Sottek on January 22, 2013 01:15 pm + 13 comments

Twitter has announced a couple of tweaks to its embedded tweet feature: embedded tweet boxes have Continue reading…
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Can one man really tweet the entire history of reported US drone strikes?

By Justin Rubio on January 8, 2013 11:59 pm + 10 comments

On December 11th, 2012, NYU graduate student Josh Begley set out to tweet the entire public history Continue reading…
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Followers watch in horror as rapper Freddy E live-tweets his own suicide

By Ben Popper on January 8, 2013 08:26 am + 233 comments

A disturbing scene unfolded on Twitter over the weekend, as the rapper Freddy E sent a series of Continue reading…
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Why Twitter's database restrictions hurt academic research

By Justin Rubio on January 6, 2013 11:46 am + 13 comments

Twitter may let users download archives of their own tweets, but the social network's strict Continue reading…
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Find tweetable sentences on any webpage with Save Publishing

By Adi Robertson on December 29, 2012 06:13 pm + 6 comments

Twitter, that medium of disposable aphorisms, demands short phrases that can be hard to estimate Continue reading…
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Minnesota theater introduces 'Tweet Seats' for web-addicted audiences

By Amar Toor on December 28, 2012 04:31 pm + 28 comments

The theater may seem like the least appropriate place to check your Twitter feed, but that's exactly Continue reading…
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Twitter officially rolling out option to download archived tweets to everyone

By Adi Robertson on December 19, 2012 10:42 am + 10 comments

After testing out the new "Your Twitter Archive" feature earlier this week, Twitter is now Continue reading…