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How to find out where your Twitter followers are located
Out of simple curiosity or as an important aspect of social campaign monitoring, a new service known as TweepsMap analyses your Twitter followers and graphs their location by country, state or city.
Darren McCarra
23rd November 2011
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Twitter creates once in a lifetime "11.11.11" visualisation
Twitter is a great place for connecting around subjects of shared interest or significance, like major sporting events, natural disasters or rare binary occurrences as happened last Friday, November 11th - 11/11/11.
Darren McCarra
15th November 2011
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Firefox 8 released, complete with integrated Twitter search
Firefox, the world's second most popular browser (soon to be third), has graduated to version eight, adding Twitter search support and greater third-party add-on control.
Darren McCarra
9th November 2011
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Lifespan of a tweet and Klout score directly linked
Klout, the social influence measuring tool, has analysed a week's worth of retweet data and unsurprisingly concluded that the lifespan of a tweet is significantly longer for users with higher Klout scores - up to 67 times longer.
Darren McCarra
5th November 2011
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Viewers can now vote on X Factor USA using Twitter
In an official blog post today Twitter has announced that it has partnered with X Factor USA to allow its users vote for contestants on the show using its service - a recognition of how people are already using Twitter to connect with their favourite shows, celebrities or news presenters as the simultaneous use of media grows.
Darren McCarra
26th October 2011
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Twitter sees threefold increase in sign-ups following iOS 5 integration
Since Twitter became officially integrated into iOS 5 on its release last Wednesday, Twitter has witnessed a threefold increase in sign-ups over the past six days.
Darren McCarra
18th October 2011
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Google announces plans for a €75 million energy-efficient data centre in Ireland
Google Ireland has announced plans to construct a highly energy-efficient data centre on a newly acquired 11-acre site near Clondalkin, Dublin. The €75 million investment will create 30 full-time jobs, with a further 200 required during construction.
Darren McCarra
30th September 2011
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"Massive win" for Ireland as Twitter sets up international office in Dublin
Industrial Development Authority (IDA) Ireland announced this morning that Twitter is to establish an international office in Ireland - their third location outside of the United States. It's not yet known whether this office will become Twitter's European HQ - a title which may still be awarded to London.
Darren McCarra
26th September 2011
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Twitter gets more powerful with new analytics tool
Twitter has just announced Twitter Web Analytics on their developers blog - a new service that will allow webmasters to accurately measure the amount of traffic Twitter is sending to their websites.
Darren McCarra
14th September 2011
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Bing and Twitter renew search partnership, hint at "bigger and better" things
It appears that Twitter and Bing may be working on extending their search partnership agreement, or perhaps further integrating Twitter into other Bing or Microsoft services, as a clearly scripted conversation between the two companies unfolded on Twitter moments ago.
Darren McCarra
7th September 2011