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"Beats by Trey": Congressman Radel tweets review of Jay Z's #MCHG

  • Media
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | By Sean Evins (@Evins), Partner Manager, Government & Politics [17:00 UTC]
Freshman Congressman Trey Radel (@TreyRadel) offers his take on Jay Z’s new album “Magna Carta…Holy Grail” on Twitter.Read more…

Working to increase #transparency: Our latest report

  • The Twitter Blog
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | By Jeremy Kessel (@jer), Manager, Legal Policy [01:16 UTC]

A lot has happened in the data privacy space since the release of our last #transparency report back in January. As we’ve noted, we believe the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.Read more…

Announcing Parquet 1.0: Columnar Storage for Hadoop

  • Engineering
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 | By Dmitriy Ryaboy (@squarecog) [17:41 UTC]

In March we announced the Parquet project, the result of a collaboration between Twitter and Cloudera intended to create an open-source columnar storage format library for Apache Hadoop.Read more…

Twitter #CreativeFavorites: @Maaco and @PitchAgency offer drivers real-time #Twestimates on auto repair after an accident

  • Advertising
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 | By Christine Cuoco (@christinecuoco), Brand & Agency Strategy [17:21 UTC]

The Summary (in 140 characters or less)

@Maacover and @PitchAgency rescue drivers after a car accident with real-time #Twestimates on cost of repairs.Read more…

Depeche Mode just can’t get enough of Vine

  • Media
Monday, July 29, 2013 | By Tatiana Simonian (@tatiana), Head of Artist Relations, Music [17:00 UTC]
Depeche Mode asks fans to share Vine videos documenting their current European tour.Read more…

Guardian says Twitter surpassing other social media for breaking news traffic

  • Advertising
Monday, July 29, 2013 | By Gordon MacMillan (@gordonmacmillan), Editorial manager @TwitterUK [10:00 UTC]

Andrew Miller, Guardian News & Media CEO, says that Twitter is driving more referral traffic for key breaking news stories to The Guardian than other social media platforms.

Speaking at the recent #TweetsFromTheTop Twitter event for chief executives, Miller (@AndrewMiller100) says 10% of the newspaper’s traffic now comes from social media, and that Twitter is central to its efforts.

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America's Got Talent viewers vote via Twitter

  • Media
Friday, July 26, 2013 | By Liz Myers (@thisbeliz), TV Partner Manager [21:14 UTC]
For the first time ever, a competition reality show collects votes for contestants on Twitter via Tweet — and wins the ratings battle for the night.Read more…

Vine videos that grew on us - July 26

  • Media
Friday, July 26, 2013 | By Bridget Finn (@bridgetmfinn), Media editor [08:01 UTC]
An ongoing look at noteworthy uses of Vine.Read more…

Start a conversation with a single Tweet

  • Media
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), Data editor [21:27 UTC]
Sports Illustrated reporter Richard Deitsch asked his followers to tweet a photo of their best moments. The result? An incredible — and unexpected — outpouring of emotion.Read more…

Mesos Graduates from Apache Incubation

  • Engineering
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 | By Dave Lester (@davelester) [14:56 UTC]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the graduation of Apache Mesos, the open source cluster manager that is used and heavily supported by Twitter, from its incubator.Read more…

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