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Like That TV Ad You Just Saw? Twitter Wants to Show You Another One.

Peter Kafka in Media May 23, 2013 at 8:58 am PT

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After Months of Hacks, Twitter Launches Heightened Security Features

Mike Isaac in Social May 22, 2013 at 12:35 pm PT

3052 posts and columns on Twitter

News Byte

Twitter Account of U.K.’s Largest TV Network Falls to Syrian Hackers

in News on May 24 at 12:40 pm PT

A Twitter account belonging to ITV, Britain’s largest TV broadcaster, is the latest victim of a hacking campaign by the Syrian Electronic Army. The network confirmed to Reuters that the account was compromised. It’s the latest attack on a Twitter account controlled by a Western media organization by the pro-Assad group. Previous targets include the Associated Press, the Financial Times, the Onion and CBS News. Twitter has recently instituted new security measures to help prevent incidents like these.

That Social Media Show

For lack of a better verb, I think the media kind of fucked it up.

– Ashton Kutcher’s current view of Twitter

Xbox One Joins the Gamecasting Fray With Social Game DVR

in Social on May 22 at 8:00 am PT

Boom, headshot! Boom, my Xbox recorded a video of that headshot automatically!
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The Kids Love Twitter; Facebook, Not So Much

in Social on May 21 at 4:22 pm PT

Teens want a drama-free social network. Twitter looks to be that network.
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How Many Users Does Tumblr Really Have?

in Media on May 21 at 5:17 am PT

Yahoo says it acquired 300 million new users yesterday. But, for now, the number advertisers care about will be much smaller.
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Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo: We’re Playing a Long-Term Game

in News on May 20 at 11:03 am PT

“I have a view that if you build something that’s good, and you keep making it better, it lasts,” says D’Angelo.
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WordPress’ Mullenweg Claims 72,000 Blogs Imported From Tumblr in Just One Hour on Sunday

in Media on May 20 at 3:27 am PT

Whoa!
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Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures

in Social on May 19 at 9:31 pm PT

Pinterest brings information from the rest of the Web deeper into its site, like any good emerging social platform.
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Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected

in Media on May 19 at 9:34 am PT

Done (just like we said).
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Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem

in Media on May 18 at 8:12 pm PT

Does Tumblr host a lot of pictures of naked people? Yep. But they’ve got an ad plan that deals with that.
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Time Machine! Tumblr’s David Karp in 2007, Age 21.

in Media, May 17, 2013 at 3:03 pm PT

Syrian Electronic Army Leaves Its Mark on the Financial Times

in News, May 17, 2013 at 7:52 am PT

Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA

in Social, May 17, 2013 at 5:00 am PT

Pace Picks Up on Tech IPOs

in News, May 16, 2013 at 11:00 pm PT

Support for Facebook, Twitter and Video Streaming Coming to Google Glass, With New Tools on the Way

in Mobile, May 16, 2013 at 10:24 am PT

With New Twitter Partnership, Yahoo Folds Tweets Into Its News Stream

in Social, May 16, 2013 at 10:16 am PT

Microsoft’s Anti-Google Campaign Gets a Boost, From Google

in Media, May 15, 2013 at 9:37 pm PT

Google+ Gets a Bit More Pinteresting

in Social, May 15, 2013 at 10:40 am PT

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ESPN, Twitter Expand Collaboration

in Media, May 13, 2013 at 3:24 pm PT

Twitter Acquires Data Mining Startup Lucky Sort

SoundCloud Starts Pushing Its Own Native Ads Out of a New York Outpost

in Media, May 13, 2013 at 6:00 am PT

Terminal Snooping

The Onion, Yahoo-Hulu and Android on Windows — 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week

in News, May 12, 2013 at 9:18 am PT

Why The Onion Is Awesome for Publishing Details of Its Twitter Hack

in News, May 10, 2013 at 5:59 am PT