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Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default; however, senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers.All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries.
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It’s tough below the line: the paradox of reader comments
In the last few days Bryony Gordon wrote a piece for the Telegraph about the experience of her parents getting divorced when she was 20. It was a touching piece, full of understanding about her own reaction at the time, and the realisation that all of our parents are flawed human beings. But many user comments descend into anarchic, negative and spiteful discourse. What's going on?
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Press regulation: newspapers may form breakaway bodies
Daily Telegraph's deputy editor, Benedict Brogan, says separate regulator should form in response to cross-party deal.
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Press regulation: Lord Puttnam says editors are demanding 'right of kings'
Labour peer shows support for new deal, criticises editors' demands, and says onus is on David Cameron to resist them.
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Could Twitter have improved media coverage in runup to Iraq War?
The Huffington Post | Salon | CPJ | CNN McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay tells Michael Calderone that Twitter may have worked as an equalizer as the media trotted out the Bush administration’s casus belli. .
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Live chat today: How to use social media to get your next job
In this week’s career chat, we’ll talk with Randy Essex, senior editor for local news at the Cincinnati Enquirer/Cincinnati. com and Kentucky Enquirer/NKY. com.
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Sir Dave Brailsford talks cycling, transparency and Twitter
British Cycling performance director talks about about the legacy of the 2012 Games and how Twitter has changed journalism.
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Daily Must Reads, March 19, 2013
1. Washington Post to charge frequent web users (Washington Post) 2. In 2012, newspapers lost $16 in print ads for every $1 gained in digital (The Atlantic) 3. NBCnews. com snags Yahoo News editor-in-chief amid first wave of hires (WSJ) 4. Can content marketing save journalism? (Mashable) 5. Social media and the global office (Wall Street Journal) 6. Good news spreads faster on Twitter and Facebook (NYT) #mc_embed_signup{background:# fff; clear:left; font:14px.
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Media app updates: Future plc and Digital First Media take opposite approaches to the new digital platforms; RetailMeNot adds AirPrint to coupon mobile app
A large number of media app updates were issued last night and this morning. One of the media companies updating its portfolio of app is Future plc. The UK and US magazine company uses its own platform, FutureFolio, to build and launch its magazine apps – the platform allows for both native and replica edition apps.
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Vine steps up the pace of fans getting closer to the action in sport
The latest fire-storm to light up Twitter is Vine. The ability to post short, six-second blasts of video has been grabbed by Vine early adopters from Dove to London Zoo. So, is it a new silver bullet for the age of on-demand content, driving new conversations with fans, or a here-today-gone-tomorrow flash in the pan? We’ve been thinking about how it can be applied to sport marketing.
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Agencies shoot down Sorrell’s take on Twitter
he belief of WPP's chief executive Martin Sorrell that Twitter is more a PR medium for brands, rather than an advertising opportunity, has been widely shot down by rival agencies and social media practitioners.
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Twitter and Telegraph hacks, no longer tweethearts? | Media Monkey
Over to Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph, where hard-pressed hacks have apparently been commandeered onto Twitter and told to update their followers regularly with pithy missives. Forget the deadlines, which look decidedly old-school in a 140-character world: reporters are now required to tweet an average of once an hour, with editors advised to update their Twitter feed every 15 minutes, according to the Independent's diary column.
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