Twitter has acquired big data analysis company Lucky Sort, for an undisclosed sum. Lucky Sort is based in Portland, Oregon; and several employees will be moving to San Francisco to join Twitter’s revenue engineering department. Lucky Sort will be shutting down its…
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Twitter has hired Cynthia Gaylor, managing director at Morgan Stanley, to head corporate development. Ms. Gaylor has more than 17 years of technology investment banking experience. According to her LinkedIn profile, she has advised clients on over 150 transactions representing…
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The Associated Press (AP) Twitter account was compromised on Tuesday. A tweet was published from the @AP handle that said there were two bomb explosions at the White House, and the President injured. As a result of the tweet and…
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Microsoft’s Bing Ads has joined the Ads Integrity Alliance, a group of companies that work together against online ads that deliver malware, direct users to scams, or try to sell counterfeit goods. Launched in 2012 with AOL, Facebook, Google, Interactive Advertising…
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Twitter has released Twitter #music, a music discovery service that also lets users listen to songs, and of course, tweet songs, to their followers, right from the app. Twitter Music uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface…
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Twitter has updated its mobile experience, to include hash tags and user name suggestions, as well as new Twitter Cards and mobile app deep-linking for Twitter developers. The updates will be rolling out to users over the next several days. You…
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Chris Fry, senior vice president of Engineering at Twitter, is joining the board of directors at Braintree. Mr. Fry will advise on the development of Braintree’s payment platform. Braintree is a payments platform for online and mobile commerce, and is used by brands like Uber, Airbnb,…
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Microblogging site Twitter turned seven on Thursday. It has been an eventful last few years; countries burnt, trophies won, tsunamis, hurricanes, elections, resignations, and over 200 million users creating over 400 million tweets each day, talking about the hurrays, horrors, or…
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Twitter has released the Twitter for Windows 8 app. Twitter for Windows 8 is available in the Windows Store in 22 languages. In addition to familiar Twitter features, the Twitter for Windows 8 app introduces new functionalities that takes advantage of…
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Twitter has launched a revamped Ad Center. The company is now reporting all engagements that Promoted Tweets receive, both engagements that advertisers pay for, and earned media. Christopher Golda (Product Manager, Twitter): Based on feedback from our advertisers, we’ve created…
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