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Jul 03

May The Tweets Be With You | Twitter Blog -

Biz clarifies Twitter’s position on trademarks and branding. In a nutshell: still open usage but be original and make good things. (c/o Techcrunch)

Tags: twitter brand tweet trademark

Jul 02

Exclusive: Sarah Lacy’s New Chapter On Twitter From Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good Paperback Version | Techcrunch -

This post contains fascinating excerpts from the book about Twitter, principally what went down when Evan took over as CEO. It also explains Jack’s diminished profile.

Tags: twitter book …

The Linguistics of ReTweets | Dan Zarrella -

Here is a more detailed analysis of re-tweets on Twitter by Dan Zarrella. He has used a larger dataset and a number of interesting linguistic tools.

Tags: retweet twitter zarrella …

Jun 24

Top Five Twitter Analytical Tools -

Here’s a post by Rob Callari discussing his top 5 tweet analysis tools.

Tags: twitter analysis 3rd party tools news

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MySpace slashes international staff, close offices | Computerworld -

Even more layoffs at MySpace, this time up to 30% of the total workforce.

Tags: myspace layoffs news efficiency

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Updates to the Station super structure

I have made some minor fixes to the template behind this website. If you have any other suggestions or comments, please add a comment to this post or email me direct.

Here are the details:

• I have finally fixed the comments problem, in that no-one could post any. Click any post, add comments, reply to others and so on. It should work thanks to Disqus.
• Tumblr notes (i.e., when someone “favourites” a post or some other kind of internal note) left by fellow Tumblr users will show up in the header and after each post.

If Pacman used Twitter … (c/o Mashable)