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#RoyalBaby

The birth of a baby into a royal family has always generated global interest. It’s no different in our 24-hour news era. So when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced the birth of their first-born todayRead more…

Your pass to Comic-Con

Twitter has long been a staple at conventions. You can keep up with speaking schedules, network with attendees, or live-tweet your thoughts during a keynote. But when that conference happens to be Comic-Con (#SDCC), Twitter suddenly fills with zombies, superheroes and dancing robots.Read more…

MLB's #ASG: All the stars, all the stats

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Baseball is all about statistics: ERA, OPS, BABIP. So how about some Twitter stats from last night’s All Star Game? In total, there were over 1 million Tweets about the game, with a peak of 23,000 Tweets per minute for Mariano Rivera’s relief appearance.Read more…

New features for BlackBerry 10 app

The BlackBerry community has spoken, and we’ve listened: Today we’re releasing a feature-rich update for BlackBerry 10 that helps you connect more seamlessly to the people and topics you care about. And since BlackBerry users askedRead more…

This Week on Twitter - July 15

Wednesday, July 17; 9:00 p.m. ET Sports lovers can follow @ESPYs and #ESPYS for all-access coverage of ESPN’s one-night celebration of the best athletes and moments in sports. @ESPYs will provide behind-the-scenes photos and Vine videos ofRead more…

Talking about Twitter in Spain

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In the Spanish town of Jun, near Granada, Mayor José Antonio Rodríguez (@JoseantonioJun) makes local government more accessible and more accountable to its citizens through the use of Twitter.Read more…

Magna Carta … Holy Tweet

Normally, Jay-Z (@S_C_) isn’t the most prolific tweeter, but he recently emerged from his Twitter hiatus to connect personally with fans.Read more…

Direct message sync, mobile search improvements and more

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People use Twitter to connect to the things and people they care about. Today, we’re making that even easier with a coordinated update for seven different apps: Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com and TweetDeck.Read more…

Celebrating the Fourth of July

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July 4th marks the 237th anniversary of the U.S., and the Americans among us mark Independence Day with parades and elaborate fireworks displays, picnics, barbecues, andRead more…

Experimenting with new ways to tailor ads

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Starting soon, we will be experimenting with a way to make ads on Twitter more useful to our users in the United States by displaying promoted content from brands and businesses they’ve shown interest in. Users won’t see more ads on Twitter, but they may see better ones.Read more…

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