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

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | By Elaine Filadelfo (@urchkin), Communications  [06:25 UTC]

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…

Cespedes also wins Home Run Derby on Twitter

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013 | By Ben Grossman (@grossman), Head of Global Operations, Media Team [22:06 UTC]
See how the @MLB displayed the key Twitter numbers around the #HRDerbyRead more…

New features for BlackBerry 10 app

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013 | By Robin Tilotta (@rob_blog), Partner and Mobile Marketing Team [19:49 UTC]
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…

C4 News and Twitter team up to build Snowmail

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013 | By gordonmacmillan (@gordonmacmillan), Editorial manager @TwitterUK [08:49 UTC]

Channel 4 News has teamed up with Twitter to build its early evening news email update ‘Snowmail’ and becomes the first UK media organisation to use the Twitter Lead Generation Card in the process.

The broadcaster is looking to extend the reach of the daily Snowmail, which is named after Channel 4 News’ senior news anchor Jon Snow. The goal is to sign up thousands of new subscribers and use Promoted Tweets targeting interests and keywords in user timelines.Read more…

When a Prime Minister live-tweets a cabinet reshuffle

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Monday, July 15, 2013 | By Bridget Coyne (@bcoyne) [22:53 UTC]
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has become the latest world leader to live tweet a breaking news story. Find out what he did - and what happened to his followersRead more…

This Week on Twitter - July 15

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Monday, July 15, 2013 | By Alexandra Valasek (@AlzValz), Communcations [16:02 UTC]
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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Monday, July 15, 2013 | By Marisa Williams (@risamaymay), Editorial Team [08:05 UTC]
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

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Saturday, July 13, 2013 | By Tatiana Simonian (@tatiana), Head of Artist Relations [00:13 UTC]
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…

When a #Sharknado attacks! How the phenomenon happened on Twitter

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Friday, July 12, 2013 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), Data Editor [22:49 UTC]

What do you get when you mix sharks with a tornado with hundreds of thousands of Tweets? Sharknado, of course. On July 11, @Syfy network’s Sharknado was the most-social program on TV in the US. So, what exactly happened? (And we don’t mean how those sharks got into that tornado.)Read more…

MLB All-Star: how the #FinalVote played out

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Thursday, July 11, 2013 | By Lauren Fraser (@lfraser), Sports Partnerships [23:31 UTC]

Imagine a contest where 1.5 million votes decide which two players will make it into one of the biggest baseball games of the year. That’s what happened on July 11 on Twitter, in only six hours.Read more…

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