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Maybe Twitter needs to get used to being small

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Twitter gets lots of grief from investors because it hasn’t taken over the world the way Facebook did, at least in terms of amassing users. But maybe it’s destined to stay small, serving a vital, if limited, role for the public. Maybe Twitter just isn’t meant to be an all-encompassing social utility. Maybe stock price is not the only lens through which a company can be valued. Twitter, perhaps even in spite of its difficult interface and site-specific lingo, has…

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Donald Trump’s favorite excuse? It was just a ‘retweet’

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Donald Trump has repeated inaccurate and racially charged crime statistics, reposted pledges of support from white supremacists and retweeted dubious questions about the citizenship of his presidential rivals to an online following of more than 6 million people on Twitter alone. His response when challenged? To dismiss it all as nothing more than harmless “retweets.” Unlike any presidential candidate before him, Trump has fueled his campaign for the Republican nomination with a seemingly endless series of eyebrow-raising statements. It’s a…

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Twitter tweaks its timeline to look a bit more like Facebook

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Twitter is tweaking its timeline. The social media site will let people turn on a setting that lets popular tweets related to people you follow show up first in your timeline, followed by the real-time feed most people on Twitter are used to. It’s a significant change for the microblogging service, although its existing “while you were away” feature also highlights tweets from the recent past. The Twittersphere exploded over the weekend on rumors that Twitter was changing its feed…

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Twitter appears ready to expand beyond 140-character tweets

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Twitter appears ready to loosen its decade-old restriction on the length of messages to give its users more freedom and make its service more appealing to a wider audience. CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey telegraphed that change is coming in a tweet he posted Tuesday a few hours after the technology news site Re/Code reported Twitter is exploring increasing its limits on text from 140 characters to as many as 10,000. Dorsey didn’t directly address the Re/Code report that cited…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.31.15 – Say goodbye to hottest year ever. Until next year.

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Say goodbye to 2015, which will go on record as the hottest year ever on Earth – at least until next year. While Florida continues to bask in unwelcome humidity during this holiday week, Missouri contends with rivers swelling to historic levels, with at least 21 people killed there and in Illinois by a powerful winter storm this week. Christmas Day temperatures broke records all up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and oh yes, El Niño is making its presence known. I…

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One Direction leads the way on Twitter’s list of 2015 tweets

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Messages of love and gratitude shared by the boy band One Direction topped Twitter’s charts this year, eclipsing President Barack Obama‘s celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing gay marriage. One Direction members accounted for half of the 10 most recirculated tweets, including the three most popular. All the One Direction tweets were either directed at bandmates or the group’s fans. None are likely to be remembered for heralding pivotal moments in history. “All the love as always. H,”…

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PolitiFact will begin fact-checking posts, and publish rulings, on Medium

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Political spin may become a thing of the past on Medium, the blogging platform popular with candidates. PolitiFact, the fact-checking arm of the Tampa Bay Times, will soon start sifting through posts by politicians — and publishing rulings — on Medium, as a way to “bring voters the truth.” Medium, launched in August 2012 by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, has become increasingly favored in political circles as a place to share content and promote analysis longer than 140 characters. Many White House…

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