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OCTOBER 18, 2013

11 Ways Your Museum Should be using Twitter | npENGAGE : recently read “The Social Media Police: Nonprofit Edition.” In it the authors discussed how you should use social media at a nonprofit and it made me curious about how museums are using Twitter. So I did the logical thing and started researching.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Killing Twitter: Why Algorithmic Timeline Spells The End Of The Revolution Word came today that Twitter may be seeking to destroy Twitter.

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MARCH 6, 2014

#37: Scott Pearl Chief Marketing Officer at the Association of Fundraising Professionals www.Twitter.com/ScottPearlMktg - See more at: [link] Social Media Marketing Magazine: Exclusives: Top CMOs on Twitter : ''via Blog this'''

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Twitter Cofounder Suggests A Replacement For The Follower Count : Twitter cofounder Ev Williams — who remains on the company's board — hinted Monday that follower counts may soon become the second most important number to users. The thing I think would be more interesting than followers is.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Twitter for Android getting major redesign, beta available now | The Verge : Twitter''s first-party Android app has been steadily getting better over the years, but it has generally maintained the same look and feel, with four navigation tabs located at the top of your timeline.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Twitter Blog: "Now that we know more about how Twitter is being used, we've made changes to our Terms of Service—these are the basic rules that go along with using Twitter. The revisions more appropriately reflect the nature of Twitter and convey key issues such as ownership.

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MAY 6, 2014

Teenage Cancer Trust fundraiser Stephen hits back at Twitter attacks : Bowel cancer patient 19-year-old Stephen Sutton, who has raised 3.2m for the Teenage Cancer Trust, has been moved to respond to tweets from donors complaining they have been “duped”, as he recovers enough to be able to leave hospital.

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APRIL 16, 2013

Boston Marathon explosion charity scam started by fake Twitter accounts : Twitter can be an amazing tool in the wake of a tragedy. However, it can also be used by amazing tools, like the guy who created a fake Boston Marathon twitter promising to donate $1 for Boston Marathon victims for every retweet.'

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MAY 2, 2011

Twitter Knew First | Jessica Journey : "For those individuals who are still unsure about the power of social media, I give you Exhibit A – the news of Osama’s death."

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MAY 9, 2016

Facebook, Twitter play different roles in connecting mobile readers to news | Pew Research Center : "Facebook sends by far the most mobile readers to news sites of any social media site, while Twitter mobile users spend more engaged time with news content, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of audience behavior metrics from 30 news sites. (..)

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MARCH 17, 2010

Twitter Blog: @anywhere: "@anywhere15527139682765141Monday, March 15, 2010When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model like that of a social network. You could follow any account and be followed by.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Twitter Enhances Accessibility with Alt Text for Images – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education : "Twitter Enhances Accessibility with Alt Text for Images" 'via Blog this'

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MAY 27, 2014

Young People Are Skeptical of Information Learned on Twitter - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society : t’s reasonable to fear that social media could exacerbate this problem. It finds that a sample of college students were, in fact, less likely to fall for false information if it had been presented to them in a Twitter format.'

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MARCH 23, 2016

A more seamless log-in experience | Twitter Blogs : 'via Blog this'

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JULY 18, 2011

Digital Oxytocin: How Trust Keeps Facebook, Twitter Humming | Fast Company : "The most surprising takeaway from the recent Pew Research Center study, 'Social Networking Sites and Our Lives,' wasn't that 80% of Americans regularly use the Internet or that 60% of Web users have a social network account--double the number in 2008, with the vast majority (..)

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JULY 29, 2011

Twitter pushes 'Promoted Tweets' to top of users' timelines - latimes.com : "Technology The business and culture of our digital lives, from the L.A. Times Twitter pushes 'Promoted Tweets' to top of users' timelines July 28, 2011 | 12:16 pm Twitter Promoted Tweets Twitter wants to make sure that 'Promoted Tweets' don't go unseen by users.

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MARCH 31, 2014

How Twitter Has Changed Over the Years in 12 Charts - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic : But each Twitter user sees the service through his or her own tiny window of followers and followed. It''s hard to tell if everyone''s behavior is changing, or just that of one''s subset of the social network.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter | Beth’s Blog : " When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. Over time, using Twitter has become more an organizational cultural norm."

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MARCH 23, 2016

Opinion: A Decade In, Twitter Is the Real-­Time Pulse of Nonprofit Advocacy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "So Twitter is 10 years old. In short, it’s hard to imagine being active in the social sphere without Twitter." 'via via Blog this'

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JANUARY 3, 2012

11 Tips for Gathering Content to Share on Twitter - Engage365 : Information is gold in social media. It could conceivably be argued that on Twitter sharing links to quality information is the native tongue. Those who share quality information get noticed. Those who create quality content become leaders.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Happy Tweetsgiving: Nonprofit taps Twitter for fundraising - OrlandoSentinel.com: "The Twitter message started simple enough two years ago: What are you thankful for? Happy Tweetsgiving!But But it also included a link to a website that told the story of Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a woman building a school in the African nation of Tanzania.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Twitter Acquires Tweetie, the Best iPhone Twitter Client: What's Next? Twitter bought startup Summize back in 2008 to create a decent search engine, and now they've acquired Tweetie, one of the best (if not the best) mobile Twitter app. And if Twitter does acquire. Dan's FC Blog | Fast Company: "But not anymore.

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JULY 17, 2015

How To Build Community & Social Influence With Twitter Lists : 'via Blog this'

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MAY 2, 2013

SIB chief reviews Twitter use after Social Action Fund investigation : Jonathan Jenkins, chief executive of the Social Investment Business, has agreed to review his use of social media in order to minimise perceptions that he has social relationships with people from charities that receive statutory funds on his recommendation.'

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JUNE 27, 2012

Twitter Invests in Young Women with ‘Girls Who Code’ - The Daily Beast : Twitter is marking its first foray into funding philanthropy, giving an undisclosed sum to a new program, Girls Who Code, that will give an 8 week, 8-hours-a-day computer science crash course and mentorship to 20 at-risk high school girls this summer.

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JUNE 29, 2011

5 Steps to Becoming a Twitter Champion | Social Media Explorer : "Champion Tweeters think differently. They approach Twitter and their time in the Twitter community with a different behavior set, mindset and belief system. Their Twitter Habitudes separate them from the pack. Here are 5 ways to get your Twitter Game on:"

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Through October 3, an alumnus will donate $1 for each new Twitter follower or Facebook “like,” up to $50,000. Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education : But the University of Wisconsin at Madison may be the first college to get a donation for increasing its follower count. The money will be used for student scholarships.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Why Evan Williams of Twitter Demoted Himself - NYTimes.com: "Yet for all its astonishing growth, Twitter has succeeded in spite of itself — the enviable product of a great idea and lightning-in-a-bottle viral success rather than a disciplined approach to how it’s managed.Because of that, Twitter is on the cusp of becoming the next big, independent (..)

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JANUARY 26, 2012

When Metadata Comes to Twitter | PCWorld Business Center : What I'm talking about here is metadata--data about data. I'd love for every tweet that's sent out to be categorized in some way by the tweeter. Tweets need metadata in the same way that books need a title. Is this tweet about an interesting new blog post by the sender of the tweet?

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

Typical Twitter user is a young woman with an iPhone & 208 followers — Tech News and Analysis : witter’s endless funnel of data is producing an equally endless series of studies — including on Twitter itself. The latest study offers fun tidbits about who is using Twitter and why.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Homeless turn to Twitter for food, shelter - CNN.com : "Los Angeles (CNN) -- Blogging and tweeting might be among the last hobbies you'd list for a homeless person, but some down-and-out people have embraced social media in such a way that it's actually garnered them needed assistance -- everything from food and diapers for children to counseling and (..)

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MARCH 18, 2013

Naive' Twitter pledge leads to UK lawmaker donating $21,150 to charity | Digital Trends : During Friday night’s biennial Comic Relief Red Nose Day event on the BBC, where comedians and other entertainers come together to help raise money for various charities, Fiona Mactaggart, a lawmaker from the country’s main opposition Labour Party, tweeted to (..)

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JULY 17, 2015

The first Periscope star shows the live streaming platform doesn't need Twitter - Digiday : 'via Blog this'

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JUNE 13, 2014

Gates turns to Twitter for advice on how to give away $50,000 - Sectors | The Irish Times - Fri, Jun 13, 2014 : Bill Gates, the world’s wealthiest man and an advocate of philanthropic giving, has turned to his 16.2 million Twitter followers to solicit ideas for how to give away $50,000.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

Twitter experiences connectivity issues on Inauguration Day — Tech News and Analysis

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APRIL 23, 2009

Inside the Minds of Twitter Users: "We know plenty about Twitter’s crazy growth rates and mushrooming membership. We know about brands on Twitter (Twitter reviews), celebrities on Twitter, politicians on Twitter. We know Twitter apps, hashtags, trends, tools, tips and tricks.

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MAY 11, 2010

Twitter Begins Testing Upcoming Business Tools | Fast Company: "According to Mashable, Twitter just started sending out a few invites to test out the new Twitter Toolkit, a bunch of features included in the Twitter Business Center.

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