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Twitter Jumps on Do Not Track Bandwagon

Twitter Twitter recently announced it will support the Do Not Track (DNT) initiative by honoring requests from Twitter users who do not want their online behavior recorded. Here’s how to enable the new feature.

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Thousands of Twitter Accounts Hacked

Have you changed your Twitter account recently? You might want to on news that over 50,000 Twitter accounts have recently been compromised.

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8 Top Tips to Writing Tweets that Really Get Read. Really.

Every day half a billion twitters create 175 million tweets. In one day!
But are they–and you–twittering anything anyone wants to read? Chances are the answer ….

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Twitter Files Anti-Spammer Lawsuit

It’s natural that, the more popular a social network service becomes, the more attractive it is to spammers. Now, Twitter says it has 140 million active users, posting more than 340 million tweets a day and it has decided to do something about those pesky spammers.

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Find Your Twitter Birthday

Have you ever wondered when you first joined Twitter? Here’s a cool site that shows you when you were born on Twitter.

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Free $1 Amazon MP3 Credit via Twitter

Would you like an easy way to get a free dollar to spend on your Amazon MP3′s? It’s as simple as sending a tweet on Twitter until March 5th at 11:59 PM PST.

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Your Afterlife on the Internet

What Happens to Your Online Life When You Die?

By the time you die, you’ll have left 15,795 twits on Twitter, 415 Facebook messages for each year of your life, and anything you left on a cloud will become the property of the folks who run the cloud. They can do anything they want with it. Your ancestors may get a kick traveling back in time to see you and hear from you, but are you sure you didn’t post any pix from that “business trip” to Vegas? Watch a great animation we found to find out what will not be interred with your bones but, for good or ill, will live after you….

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Reader Poll: What Social Network Do You Use the Most?

There are plenty of Social Networks online that let you communicate with friends and family. Social networks are also a great place to network and promote your brand. This week, we want to know what your favorite social network is.

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TweetBot For iPad: Is It Worth It? [Review]

Last Wednesday, the popular Twitter client TweetBot from Tapbots was released for the Apple iPad. This comes soon after the 2.0 update for the Apple iPhone. So is this app worth getting? The short answer is yes. Here’s a look at what you can expect. For the past year or so, I’ve been begrudgingly bouncing [...]

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Twitter Buys Summify

We still get to see a company being bough this week, after Samsung denied wanting to buy Research In Motion. Summify has officially announced that is has been bought by Twitter. Twitter will probably integrate Summify’s services. Summify was started in Romania, then moved to Vancouver a couple of years ago. It offers users the [...]

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