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The topography of Tweets

Sometimes a map is not enough. What if instead of just showing roads and boundaries, it was a 3D model you could manipulate and explore?

That is exactly what our data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte (@philogb) did with every geotagged tweet ever recorded, producing this incredible visualization of billions of Tweets.Read more…

Life in the moment at #CannesLions 2013

Whether you’re on the Croissette or Main Street, one thing is consistently clear: people are savvier than ever. The attention economy has been turned upside down because the pulse of the planet is at our fingertips — we decide what we want, when we want it, how we want it. Our attention, trust and advocacy are not for sale to brands, and traditional one-way marketing approaches are met with indifference or worse. We’re living through a cultural shift of enormous consequence, and you can miss the signals if you get too caught up in workaday tasks.Read more…

Larger and more flexible previews

Many Twitter users take advantage of embedded media to create powerful and engaging Tweets, and TweetDeck has an option to view these media in-line. Today, we bring you an upgrade to introduce larger and more flexible previews to make your media shine.

Media previews on TweetDeck used to appear as small thumbnails that you could turn on and off from the settings panel. Now, we offer previews in three sizes - small, medium and large - along with an option to turn them on or off for each column. TweetDeck will display medium size previews by default with the following exceptions:Read more…

How newspapers and Twitter work together to drive revenue

Like television, Twitter and newspapers go together. Not only as a place to break the biggest live stories of the day, but as a way to connect newspapers to their readers and extend relationships with advertisers.

For Linda Grant, managing director of the UK’s free national newspaper @MetroUK, Twitter not only provides a window into the lives of the paper’s readers; it contributes to the bottom line.Read more…

24 hours of global governance

Over the course of 24 hours, global attention turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas state legislature and the Australian Parliament — and Twitter served as the global town square for all of these significant civic showdowns.Read more…

hRaven and the @HadoopSummit

Today marks the start of the Hadoop Summit, and we are thrilled to be a part of it. A few of our engineers will be participating in talks about our Hadoop usage at the summit:Read more…

Agency influencer Q&A with John Bell: The secrets to principled social design

John Bell (@jbell99), the founder and Global Managing Director of Social@Ogilvy, is one of those rare thinkers who not only understands social marketing but can actually break it down into actionable principles.Read more…

Argos drives engagement with Alien baby Twitter + TV campaign

Argos is following up the success of its #windadscamera campaign last year, one of the first promoted contests on Twitter, with a new campaign centred around its loveable alien family (@ArgosAliens) who are about to make an addition to the family – the name of which will be chosen by Twitter users.Read more…

More options for marketers: Announcing the next wave of Ads API partners

In February we announced the first Twitter Ads API partnerships to make it easier and more effective for marketers to scale campaigns on Twitter.Read more…

This Week on Twitter - June 24

Thursday, June 27; 7:00 p.m. ET Basketball fans can tune in to the #NBADraft this Thursday on ESPN (@ESPN). Follow the NBA (@NBA) for behind-the-scenes NBA Draft photos from the Twitter Mirror throughout the night.Read more…

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