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

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

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

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

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

“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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Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures

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

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

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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Google+ Gets a Bit More Pinteresting