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Reporting on Dr. King's dream in 2013

Presidents, civil rights leaders and citizens joined together today to mark the 50th anniversary of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington. See how news organizations told that story on Twitter.Read more…

The @49ers get twice the takeover

What happened when a supermodel and pro basketball player took over the @49ers Twitter account.Read more…

Commemorating the March on Washington

The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington was commemorated on Twitter.Read more…

Pretty Little Tweeters: How the finale beat the records

How Pretty Little Liars earned record engagement during its summer finale.Read more…

Keep up with conversations on Twitter

Today we’re updating our iPhone and Android apps, as well as Twitter.com, to make it easier to discover and follow conversations in your home timeline. From buzz about the VMAs to debates around upcoming football games, people come to Twitter to take part in these real-time, global, public conversations.

To date, such exchanges haven’t always been easy to follow. With this in mind, we’ve now made it easier for you to see conversations as they’re taking place. Here’s how it will look:Read more…

Lead Generation Card: Now available to all advertisers, with new features

In May we announced the limited availability of our Lead Generation Card - a streamlined tool to help advertisers find and connect off-Twitter with users interested in their message. After making refinements based on feedback from early adopters, we are happy to announce that Lead Generation Cards are now open to all advertisers, including small and medium businesses who advertise on Twitter.Read more…

Powered by Tweets: Honda puts customers in the driver's seat with #WantNewCar

Want to engage new customers and reward the loyalty of existing ones? Take a page from Honda: Listen to what they want.Read more…

The New York Times tests a new Tweet feature

The New York Times experiments with making it easy to tweet sentences within a story.Read more…

Tweeting the VMAs: The techniques that worked

It was the TV and music event of last night, with 90% of the conversation about TV on Twitter. What did broadcasters, reporters and the stars themselves do that was new this year?Read more…

#VMAs 2013

Year after year, viewers transform Twitter into the social soundtrack of the @MTV Video Music Awards. Last night was no different, as the VMAs brought a party to the streets of Brooklyn as well as to Twitter.

Fans and stars alike tweeted their own commentaries about the show’s performances, awards, and fashions.Read more…

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