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• Google Integrates Twitter With Its Friend Connect

  PaidContent - 2009-12-03

  Say this for Google: The company does not like to have its rivals grab all the attention. Less than a day after Facebook announced it would link up Facebook Connect across Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) properties, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced the integration of its own identity platform with Twitter. People...

  Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Companies, Google, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Bit.ly aims to thwart Twitter scammers

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-30

  URL shortening service Bit.ly is forging partnerships with three online security firms in a bid to stop spammers and scammers from targeting Twitter. Specialists in search engine optimisation Roman Latkovic and Robert LaQuey say URL shorteners like Bit.ly put users in danger, as they enable criminals to "plant malicious...

  Tags: Malicious Code, Search Engine, Twitter Inc., Antivirus, Scammer, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Search, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Sophos, Twitter, bit.ly, Editorial, VeriSign Inc., Websense Inc.

• Twitter's Stone: No Sale But IPO, Alternatives Are Possible

  PaidContent - 2009-11-23

  Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, the latest stop on a talky tour of the...

  Tags: Advertisement, Twitter Inc., IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Advertising, Money, Social Media, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK, Staci D. Kramer

• ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Gets A Twitter Time Out, Sort Of

  PaidContent - 2009-11-21

  Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest “repeat...

  Tags: ESPN, Twitter Inc., Bill Simmons, Quality, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Online News, TV, Cable & Telecom, Social Media, Companies, Disney, Twitter, Staci D. Kramer

• Twitter Premium Accounts Due By Year's End

  PaidContent - 2009-11-19

  So how’s Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday…“Supposing I was to say to someone: ‘you can have my Twitter identity for...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., Financial Planning, Business Structures, Finance, Companies, Twitter, Patrick Smith

• First Look: Zune, Twitter, Facebook And Last.fm On Xbox

  PaidContent - 2009-11-18

  Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 console on Tuesday, along with the first European foray for its Zune brand see earlier reports from Tameka and I. Here are my initial explorations with each new service…Last.fm...

  Tags: Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Gaming, Music, Social Media, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Microsoft, xBox, Twitter, Robert Andrews

• Eight Ways to Ruin Your Social-Media Strategy

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Like it or not, loads of your customers are yakking away about your business on Twitter, Facebook and similar outlets. So don?t blow it. Mistake 1: Pretend you can do without it. You may have already run into the Graying...

  Tags: Facebook, Conversation, Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Context Optional, social media, Twitter, YouTube, viral advertising, social marketing., Catharine P. Taylor

• Where Your Customers Are: How Facebook, Twitter and Others Break Down by Age

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Do your homework before you approach your customers online. Here's how users on the top social media sites broke down by age in August 2009. by Staci Baird

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., social media, chart, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube, viral advertising, social marketing, Staci Baird

• Industry Moves Roundup: Twitter; Discovery; CBS Interactive

  PaidContent - 2009-11-11

  —Twitter: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava—whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed systems—is joining the microblogging service in an unspecified role, Louis Gray reports. He confirms the move—on Twitter.—Discovery Communications: Todd Zander has been promoted to vice president of digital media distribution, tasked with expanding the...

  Tags: Davenport Co., Twitter Inc., Industry, CBS Interactive Inc., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Twitter and LinkedIn sign deal to sync status updates

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-09

  LinkedIn and Twitter are rolling out an update that lets users post status messages across both social networking platforms. The move follows two recent partnership deals from Twitter, signed with Google and Microsoft’s Bing, and promises to give LinkedIn's business-focused social network a substantial boost in traffic. ...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., LinkedIn, Commentators, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Facebook, Twitter, Andrew McDonald, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.