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Gearing up for a golden night on Twitter

Friday, January 10, 2014 | By Lara Cohen (@Larakate), Head of TV Talent [17:12 UTC]
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Hollywood’s brightest stars will come together on Sunday, January 12 (8pm ET/5pm PT) for one of the most fun nights in show biz: The Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes).

As exciting as it will be with so much talent and personality in one room, your TV screen can only capture so much. That’s where Twitter comes in.Read more…

Tell your stories with #TwitterFiction

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 | By Andrew Fitzgerald (@magicandrew), Media Partnerships [14:00 UTC]
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Though Twitter is famous for its utility in telling real-life, real-time stories, it’s also an enormously powerful tool for another kind of storytelling: fiction.Read more…

Football fans dive deep for the #BCS title game

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 | By Lauren Fraser (@lfraser), Media Partnerships [21:18 UTC]
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How fans reacted to the #BCS championship game between @FSU_Football and @FootballAURead more…

Twitter reactions to the #Fed confirmation

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 | By Bridget Coyne (@bcoyne), Government Team [19:38 UTC]
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Yesterday, Dr. Janet Yellen was confirmed as the newest Chairperson of the @FederalReserve, the first woman to hold that post. She also became the first #Fed chair to have her appointment debated and celebrated over Twitter — the last time that a new chairperson was appointed, Twitter wasn’t around.Read more…

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…

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