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Twitter Has A Sweetheart

This Valentine’s Day will see a romance blossom between two passionate lovers of brevity: the Sweetheart candy maker and Twitter, according to a story in The Tampa Tribune. A select few candy hearts will proclaim, “Tweet Me.” The Twitter-Sweetheart project seemed almost predestined, executives with the candy company say, with Twitter transmitting billions of ever-so-brief

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UK Snow Map Leverages Twitter

According to the official weather service, the United Kingdom has just suffered through its longest spell of freezing conditions since December 1981. The recent winter storms wreaked havoc with public transportation and generally disrupted the lives of millions of UK residents. In calculating which regions were affected and determining where snow was falling or not

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Business Ideas from Twitter #2

This post is sponsored by Ad.ly. @connectwithcoop: I might buy all my facebook contacts domain name names to sell back to them in the future. joking…but good ‘assholery’ business idea… @narhasan: Tom Wujec on 3 Ways the Brain Creates Meaning http://on.ted.com/671D [TED] Awesome mega-board business idea at minute five. @KevinMartelli: New business idea: mobile print

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Why Twitter Will Endure

David Carr over at The New York Times has an interesting look at Twitter. I can remember when I first thought seriously about Twitter. I was at the SXSW conference, a conclave in Austin, Tex., where technology, media and music are mashed up and re-imagined, and, not so coincidentally, where Twitter first rolled out in

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Twitter For Small Biz

Katherine Lewis at CurrentMom is often asked about Twitter for small business, either by independent consultants or business owners. And her answer is always the same: if your customers and competitors are on Twitter, you need to be too. 1. Follow Competitors and Customers 2. Tweet Useful Information — But Not Too Much 3. Monitor

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Twitter For Your Credit Card

Anthony Ha has an interesting story over at DigitalBeat about a new site called Blippy based on a pretty provocative idea – it allows users to share all the purchase information from one of their credit cards. Once you buy a movie ticket from Fandango or a cup of coffee from Starbucks, Blippy automatically publishes

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Biz Rumor: Twitter Is Profitable

Content deals with Google and Microsoft, plus renegotiated rates with the telecom companies that carry its members’ tweets, have combined to make Twitter profitable, BusinessWeek reports. The Google deal and Microsoft deal, both announced in October, make Twitter members’ content available to Google’s search engine and to Microsoft’s Bing. These deals are worth around $25

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