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Bob Buckhorn blocked me on Twitter

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Bob Buckhorn blocked me on Twitter. Or one of his staffers with access to his social media did. Or he told them to. In any case, I can’t view any of Buckhorn’s tweets. A while back I wrote some fairly antagonistic stories about Tampa’s commander-in-chief. In early June when a 14-year old was gunned down in broad daylight, Buckhorn was quoted in the Tampa Bay Times basically blaming the victim for his own death. I called him out on it.…

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Facebook expands sharing options to include live video

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Get ready to start watching live video of your friends and family doing something fun, boring or even dumb on Facebook. The world’s largest social network is testing a new feature that will enable its 1.5 billion users to use their smartphones to shoot video so other people can see what they are doing as it happens. Facebook began testing the live video option Thursday among a sliver of its U.S. audience with iPhones. The Menlo Park, California, company didn’t…

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Twitter #PAC to blaze transparency trail in 2016, offer full disclosure on donations

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Federal law permits a significant lag time for political action committees in reporting specific candidate donations, often with waits as long as weeks or even months to say exactly who they gave cash. According to reporting by the Center for Public Integrity, Twitter’s emerging PAC, which is just beginning to make federal contributions, wants to cut disclosure time down to about 48 hours. That speed mirrors the immediacy of Twitter’s core product. “Timely disclosure is something we could do. We…

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Stars no more: Twitter ditches stars, adds hearts for likes

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You’ll no longer see stars on Twitter: The messaging service has removed the star icon found under every tweet and replaced it with a heart. Twitter Inc. said Tuesday it made the change because the star can be confusing to new users and the heart is more universally known around the globe. Before the change, clicking the star meant a tweet was a “favorite.” Now clicking the heart means you “like” a tweet. The San Francisco company has been trying…

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Twitter gives co-founder Jack Dorsey a 2nd chance as CEO

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Twitter is embracing Jack Dorsey as its CEO in hopes that its once-spurned co-founder can hatch a plan to expand the short messaging service’s audience and end nearly a decade of financial losses. The hiring revealed Monday in a regulatory filing ends Twitter’s three-month search for a new leader. It marks Dorsey’s second stint as CEO since he helped start the San Francisco company more than nine years ago with Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. Twitter dumped Dorsey…

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Twitter how-to campaign guide leaves some things out — like ‘no nude selfies’

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In an effort to be an indispensable campaign tool, Twitter provides a variety of political services, including allowing candidates to raise money by tweet, connect with voters and poll public opinion on issues ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Now, Twitter offers a manual for politicians and campaigns, giving a wealth of information on how to the social media network correctly. “The Twitter Government and Elections Handbook” is a 137-page user’s guide with advice on setting up a Twitter account…

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GOP pollster schools RPOF on millennial generation’s priorities, how to win their vote

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The perception that the youth vote has always belongs to the Democrats is not accurate, says GOP pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson. In 2000, she says, George W. Bush and Al Gore split the youth vote, as well as those voters older than 65. But that split certainly occurred in 2008 and even more so in 2012, when Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney by 23 percentage points among voters under 30. However, Romney won the young white vote by 7 percentage points. The obvious…

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