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Sports + New Year’s Day a perfect combo

Thursday, January 2, 2014 | By Jenna Mannos (@JennaMannos), Media Partnerships  [22:30 UTC]
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Happy new year! While millions of people across the globe celebrated New Year’s Eve on the town, January 1 presented the perfect opportunity to sit on the couch, watch a variety of sporting events and discuss them on Twitter.

For all of the action, Twitter brought you into the locker room, onto the field and ice, amplified thrilling overtime action, and opened the doors of the broadcast booth.Read more…

Everybody everywhere, ringing in 2014

Wednesday, January 1, 2014 | By Rachael Horwitz (@RachaelRad), Communications Team [19:24 UTC]

Happy new year! Last night as the clock moved ever closer to striking midnight across the world, millions of people celebrated the start of 2014 by tweeting their good wishes, whether feliz ano novo or あけおめ, bonne année or frohes neues Jahr.

As captured in this visualization, created by Krist Wongsuphasawat on our data analytics team, celebrations spread across the globe as clocks (or our mobile phones) ticked to midnight:Read more…

Twitter Alerts: New countries and features

Thursday, December 19, 2013 | By Gabriela Pena (@gpena), Product Manager  [21:44 UTC]
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In September, we launched Twitter Alerts to help people receive critical information during times of crisis. Since then, Twitter Alerts has grown to include countries and organizations around the world.Read more…

Reverting the changes to block functionality

Friday, December 13, 2013 | By Michael Sippey (@sippey), VP of Product [03:34 UTC]
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Earlier today, we made a change to the way the “block” function of Twitter works. We have decided to revert the change after receiving feedback from many users – we never want to introduce features at the cost of users feeling less safe. Any blocks you had previously instituted are still in effect.Read more…

New features for Twitter for Mac

Thursday, December 12, 2013 | By Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky), Tech Lead, Twitter for Mac [20:02 UTC]

Today we’re updating Twitter for Mac to include a number of great features, along with a new look and feel. Here’s more information on what’s new:

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This year on Twitter

Thursday, December 12, 2013 | By Gabriel Stricker (@gabrielstricker), VP, Marketing & Communications [05:00 UTC]
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Twitter is the real-time soundtrack to the biggest global moments and events as they unfold in the world, and 2013 was no exception. Whether it was the Super Bowl blackout or the German election,Read more…

@TIME’s Person of the Year

Thursday, December 12, 2013 | By Andrew Fitzgerald (@magicandrew), News Partnerships [02:30 UTC]
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Once a year, the editors of TIME magazine select the one person or entity who has most affected the world stage over the past 12 months. The honoree adorns the cover of the the news magazine — and this year, is also recognized by this Tweet:Read more…

Winning the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award: #jointheflock

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | By Janet Van Huysse (@janetvh), VP, Human Resources [13:01 UTC]
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Earlier today, the jobs and career community @Glassdoor announced Twitter has won its Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the 50 Best Places to Work in 2014. As the top technology company recognized, and number two overall, we’re extraordinarily honored by this recognition.Read more…

Photos in direct messages and swipe between timelines

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | By Jeremy Gordon (@JeremySF) [21:35 UTC]

Every day, people come to Twitter to find out what’s happening in the world and talk about it. Today, we’re updating our mobile apps to make this even easier.Read more…

#OnlyOnTwitter: World Cup draw

Saturday, December 7, 2013 | By Lauren Fraser (@lfraser), Sports Partnerships [00:19 UTC]
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1.7 million Tweets were sent about the World Cup draw today, including from the athletes themselves.Read more…
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