Showing posts with label tweets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tweets. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

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Twitter makes it easy to find first tweets

Samsung sets a high price for its smartwatches, Google lets you snap a photo with voice commands, and Twitter celebrates its eighth birthday by looking back at users' first tweets.



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'Say hello to my e-go': 10 funny first tweets we love

While many first tweets centered on dull daily details or confusion about what Twitter even does, Jedi Master tweeters treated their first 140-character messages like a night at the comedy club.



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Monday, March 24, 2014

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Twitter may indulge our vanity by showing view counts for tweets

Twitter isn't supposed to be a popularity contest, but let's be honest -- many of us get a little thrill from new favorites and followers. It may be a good thing, then, that Twitter is experimenting with view counts on tweets. While Twitter's ad partners have had access to this data for a while, the test lets regular social networkers (albeit just a handful) see how much interest there is in what they say. The company isn't commenting on the dry run, but we wouldn't assume that a full-scale launch is coming. While view counts might encourage participation after well-received posts, they could also crush the self-esteem of newcomers. Not everyone can attract as many eyeballs as a celebrity or a politician, after all.



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Thursday, March 20, 2014

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Feedback Loop: Earliest internet memories, first tweets and more!

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Welcome to Feedback Loop, a weekly roundup of the most interesting discussions happening within the Engadget community. There's so much technology to talk about and so little time to enjoy it, but you have a lot of great ideas and opinions that need to be shared! Join us every Saturday as we highlight some of the most interesting discussions that happened during the past week.



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Friday, December 13, 2013

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Twitter lets you look back at 2013's land of tweets

The company has published a retrospective examining the big Twitter stories from each month, as well as hot topics in news, entertainment, and sports.



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