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Nashville convention center groups take fight to the publicNashville's Priorities has been using new media like Twitter and YouTube to draw attention to problems in the convention business, highlight previous council deliberations and point to various Dean administration statements on the topic. In this article: Nashville, Revenue, Tax, Karl Dean, and Twitter |
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Wired: Gadgets | 3 days ago
Buying an HDTV? Here's What You Need to Know
...fleet of sets with 24/7 web connectivity. Most of these HDTVs run Yahoo's Widget Engine and deliver weather, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon VOD, news, sports and other web content right on your big screen. The experience depends largely on the...
In this article: Organic light-emitting diode, Samsung, Blu-ray Disc, OLED TV, Mitsubishi, YouTube, Netflix, Panasonic, and Yahoo
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AP Online | November 17, 2009
Vietnam Internet users fear Facebook blackout
...northern neighbor, with whom it shares a similar economic and political system. China has blocked Facebook since July and has also shut down Twitter and YouTube. One Western diplomat said he was aware of the Facebook access problems but did...
In this article: Facebook, Vietnam, Hanoi, Ministry of Public Security, YouTube, China, and Palo Alto
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TIME | 3 days ago
Avatar Exclusive: First Look at 'Interactive Trailer'
...with quite a bit of new content to digest. There are links to purchase tickets as well as menus that load the latest "Avatar" social networking feeds, scanning Flickr, YouTube and Twitter. In the main area of the interface, users can...
In this article: Avatar, James Cameron, Jar Jar Binks, YouTube, and Flickr
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BBC News | November 20, 2009
Crime time
...of what happened. In light of this, West Midlands police used both Twitter and YouTube while policing a potentially rowdy demonstration mounted by the far right England and Wales Defence League (EDL) in Birmingham. The police sent...
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USATODAY.com | November 17, 2009
Social media like Twitter change customer service
...the Roku HD-XR brings the Internet to your TV. Frank Eliason, director of digital care at Comcast, says Comcast uses Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs and help forums to help customers. By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO When Wes...
In this article: Comcast, Helpstream, Nielsen, YouTube, Facebook, and Dell
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Description from Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
The 140-character limit on message length was initially set for compatibility with SMS messaging, and has brought to the web the kind of shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages. The 140 character limit has also spurred the usage of URL shortening services such as tinyurl, bit.ly and tr.im, and content hosting services, such as Twitpic and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter.
- Name:
- Twitter, Inc
- Type:
- Private
- Location City:
- San Francisco, California
- Location Country:
- USA
- Founded:
- 2006
- Industry:
- mobile social network service, micro-blogging
- Key People:
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- Evan Williams, CEO
- Jack Dorsey, Chairman
- Biz Stone, Creative Director
- Revenue:
- $400,000 Q3 (2009) (projected)
- No. of Employees:
- 74
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