Twitter gives MIT researchers access to every single public tweet

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Culture Web Twitter gives MIT researchers access to every single public tweet By Dante D'Orazio on October 5, 2014 07:31 pm @dantedorazio 5 Don't miss stories follow The Verge Like Follow Subscribe Follow Share on Facebook View the original article here

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Is your tweet getting traction? Look at Twitter analytics

Twitter unleashed a feature to all users on Wednesday that was previously only for advertisers and verified users. It's an analytics dashboard that lets users see how much mileage their tweets are getting.

The news was revealed by Twitter engineer Ian Chan wrote said in a tweet, "Absolutely thrilled to open up access to http://analytics.twitter.com to EVERYONE."

The social network launched its analytics dashboard in July to let advertisers and verified users see specific data about their tweet reach, such as total impressions and engagement rate. The idea is for users to get an idea of how many people are seeing and clinking on their tweets.

While clearly helpful to advertisers, this kind of information can also be useful and fun for the everyday Twitter user. It helps people figure out the best frequency and time of day or week for tweets, as well as a get a glimpse of how tweets are doing in real-time.

(Via TechCrunch)

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Twitter will reportedly roll out 'buy' button later this year

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Twitter is going to incorporate a way for users to easily buy things directly from its network later this year, according to a report Friday from Recode.

The social network is partnering with Stripe, a payments services company, to integrate a "buy" button into tweets, unnamed sources told Recode.

It is expected that the button will let users enter in payment and shipping information without leaving Twitter, allowing businesses to sell their products directly from tweets with Stripe powering the transaction.

Twitter and Stripe did not respond to requests for comment.

The direct move into e-commerce would solidify earlier reports of a "buy" button. The button was spotted in a tweet from social e-commerce site Fancy's Twitter account in June. It's not surprising Twitter wants to get into e-commerce. Acting as a marketplace can give the company a solid revenue stream if it can leverage the attention of its loyal users.

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Twitter to display tweets from accounts you don't follow -- like it or not

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Your Twitter timeline may start to get a bit more crowded -- with uninvited guests.

Under a new plan, the microblogging site may now show you tweets from accounts that you don't follow. That's a significant change from the usual scenario in which you see only tweets from accounts you follow as well as retweets and promoted tweets.

In an update to a Help Center Page called What's a Twitter timeline?, Twitter described the timeline tweak and explained the reasoning behind it:

Additionally, when we identify a Tweet, an account to follow, or other content that's popular or relevant, we may add it to your timeline. This means you will sometimes see Tweets from accounts you don't follow. We select each Tweet using a variety of signals, including how popular it is and how people in your network are interacting with it. Our goal is to make your home timeline even more relevant and interesting.

The move has its pros and cons. You may find interesting accounts you didn't know existed. But depending on the volume of tweets from accounts you don't follow, you may find your timeline more crowded than you like. And your ability to personalize your timeline will face an added challenge since you could now bump into tweets you didn't ask for and don't like.

Some Twitter users have already chimed in with a negative reaction to the new initiative.

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One user in the UK complained after Twitter displayed a tweet to him from his stepfather, who died last June, according to The Guardian. Other users have registered more general gripes about the change, with one person tweeting: "Hey

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Twitter suspends accounts sharing beheading images

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced Wednesday that the social network was suspending all accounts that posted images from the appalling video allegedly showing the beheading of photojournalist James Foley.

"We have been and are actively suspending accounts as we discover them related to this graphic imagery. Thank you," Costolo tweeted.

Foley, 40, was kidnapped in Syria about two years ago while working as a freelance journalist, according to The New York Times. News of his whereabouts since then has been scant. On Tuesday, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria posted a gruesome video to YouTube that it said was the beheading of Foley. The authenticity of the video has not yet been verified and YouTube has since pulled it.

We have been and are actively suspending accounts as we discover them related to this graphic imagery. Thank you https://t.co/jaYQBKVbBF

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Twitter says as many as 23 million accounts connect with automated services

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UPDATED 1:13pm PT Corrects misinterpretation of the quarterly filing and what the implications of it are. Twitter did not discuss "bots" in its filing. Some automated accounts post a Tweet when a door is opened, while others are used by news organizations to publish their latest headlines.

It turns out a chunk of active Twitter users aren't active participants.

In a new filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, the social networking service revealed that in the three months ended June 30, around 8.5 percent of its active accounts used third-party apps that automatically connect to Twitter for them, updating their streams without any effort. It's unclear whether these services are used to automatically post to Twitter, or merely to read information from the network. Either way, this means among the 271 million active Twitter accounts in total, around 23 million aren't putting much effort in.

So why is Twitter revealing this information? For the purpose of its SEC filing, the company is attempting to clarify how people use the service. This information can help investors better understand the growth rate of its active users, and how they use the service. Wall Street has closely watched user growth and activity among active users since the company went public last year.

In an attempt to express more precise measurements to the government and stockholders, Twitter's latest filing explained that around 11 percent of its accounts used third-party apps to tap into the service, meaning they didn't go directly through the website or one of the company's own products. But the 8.5 percent listed in the document do use third party technologies, such as HTC's Sense and Samsung's Touchwiz, giving them an ability to automatically pull information from Twitter with -- or without -- opening an app.

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"Historically we tracked and reported in this section all users who accessed Twitter through third-party applications," Twitter said in its SEC filing. "We have reviewed and refined our processes, however, to calculate a new metric that is comprised of only such active users who have used applications with the capability to automatically contact our servers for regular updates where there was no discernible user action involved."

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