Tweeter’s Digest: Twitter Rolls Out Weekly Recap Emails

For those not used to real-time Twitter news, there’s a compact version available.
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Twitter Is Tired of Twitter Spam Too, Files Lawsuits

The microblogging service has filed suit against five entities that are either mass spammers or providing the tools for such unwanted messages.
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Now You Can Tweet Right to Left

With the help of some clever engineering and six weeks of work by 13,000 volunteer translators, Twitter now supports Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu and allows right-to-left and left-to-right languages to exist happily in the same tweet. This makes 28 languages in which Twitter is available.

Don’t Put a Flight Attendant Between Alec Baldwin and Words With Friends

Actor Alec Baldwin loves Zynga’s hit game Words With Friends, but right now he’s not too crazy about American Airlines, which he says booted him off a flight for playing while sitting at the gate.
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Twitter Lets You Look Over Your Friends’ Shoulders, in Real Time

Twitter today started rolling out features to help shed light on the way tweeted content is received by other users. Two new tabs on Twitter’s Web site show users when their own tweets or tweets from the people they follow are favorited or retweeted.
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Terrell Owens Loves His Fans, and More From Twitter Analysis

Despite all the tired wisecracks about the triviality of Twitter’s content and the supposed narcissism of its users, it’s clear that the popular microblogging site has established itself as a playground for celebrities.

What Martha Saw: #D9 Tweets From the Eyes of the Audience

We’ve compiled the story of our recent D9 conference, 140 characters at a time. It’s full of pictures (the behind the scenes kind) and links to videos. And even the inimitable @MarthaStewart makes an appearance or two.
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25 Million iPads, 14 Billion Apps: WWDC 2011 by the Numbers

There were lots of numbers showcased in Apple’s WWDC keynote Monday morning–big, big numbers.
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Twitter Numbers: Cool, But How Many Users Does It Actually Have?

Twitter has put up some impressive numbers in its five years, but it still doesn’t disclose a standard stat for any Web service: How many users it has.

A Digital “Magazine” With One Subscriber

A new iPad app called Zite makes the news-gathering process a lot easier. The app crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to users, according to their social network and online reading behavior.
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Topsy Hands Out Real-Time Search Widgets

Twitter Trusts, No Longer Verifies