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Our Commitment

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It comes down to this: people deserve to feel safe on Twitter.

Over the past week, we’ve been listening to your feedback on how we can improve our service. You told us that we need to make our rules clearer, simplify our abuse reporting process, and promote the responsible use of Twitter.

Today, we want to give an update on what we’ve done and what we’re committing to do over the next few months.Read more…

We hear you

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At Twitter, we work every day to create products that can reach every person on the planet. To do that, we must take a wide range of use cases into consideration when designing interfaces or developing user tools. We want Twitter to work whether you are trying to follow your favourite musician, talk to others about shared interests, or raise the visibility of a human rights issue.Read more…

Welcome to the @TwitterMedia blog!

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Hello from the @twittermedia team, and welcome to our new blog. This is the place where we will celebrate you — our users and media partners — for all you do to truly make Twitter a global town square.Read more…

Getting creative with #Vine

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In January we launched Vine, a mobile service that lets you create and share beautiful, short looping videos. Posts on Vine are about abbreviation — the shortened form of something larger. They’re little windows into the people, settings, ideas and objects that make up your life. They’re quirky, and we think that’s part of what makes them so special.Read more…

Trends in 10 new UK locations

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Today, we’re introducing Twitter Trends 10 new UK locations: Bournemouth, Middlesbrough, Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry, Hull, Swansea, Preston, Blackpool, Plymouth and Derby, alongside more than 160 other locations around the world.

Trends are an easy way to find out what people are talking about right now –– around the world, in your country, or in your city. By checking out Trends, you can easily find breaking news and current hot topics that are most relevant to you.Read more…

#Twitter7

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Cast your mind back to 2006 - the year that Daniel Craig made his debut as the first blonde Bond, Coldplay won Album of the Year at the BRIT Awards, Sven-Göran Eriksson’s England team were knocked out of the World Cup quarter-finals, and Queen Elizabeth celebrated her 80th birthday.Read more…