One lucky Twitter user has noticed some changes to his Twitter stream. According to his post, Twitter has made more changes to its Timeline feature, which is your stream of...

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The Weather Channel for iPad app got a major update this week to version 3.0.0. The update includes a completely new design, a 3D spinning globe (map), a news and social tab and HD video of news and weather forecasts. People using an iPad 2 will see animated weather backgrounds reflecting local conditions. The news and social tab includes weather news, tweets from Weather Channel experts and contributed weather photos from people nearby.The weather interface shows five days of general weather co [...]

Read More: The Weather Channel for iPad 3.0.0 App: 3D Globe, Weather Tweets & iWitness Weather

With just a few days until Ontario’s Election Day, the online hunt for votes is moving daily at a faster rate.


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Over the last few weeks Twitter has been launching its paid for services in the UK with a select group of launch partners. Our longstanding client, Eurostar, is one these partners and this week we’re working with Arena Media in piloting the new service by launching Eurostar’s new brand proposition, ‘Opening The Way’. The activity [...]

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The strangeness of Twitter is that there are so many people who will never learn from those who have made missteps on the medium before them. Athletes continue to use Twitter to connect with fans and let out their feelings, but so many of them still bring unnecessary attention to themselves or their teams, stir up controversy, and simply write dumb things. Here are the latest in the sad, continuing saga of unwise athlete tweets.

Read More: The Everlasting Saga of Dumb Sports Tweets, September Edition

For the past few weeks Starbucks boss Howard Schultz has been stirring up interest in his town hall meeting. The town hall meeting was held Tuesday night as a phone-in and social media debate about the "paralysis and uncertainty" he says is being brought about by the high levels of political internal strife in Washington.


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Twitter is great for generating buzz, but sometimes that buzz isn't all that constructive. As the east coast of the United States prepares for Hurricane Irene this weekend, tips on how to handle weather emergencies are appreciated by all audiences. Thankfully, there are a lot of Twitter users who are skilled at giving advice, whether it be on how to deal with flooding or how to maintain perspective when we don't even know how badly the storm will affect different areas. Here, then, are the top 1 [...]

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The Weather Channel and Twitter have teamed up to create 220 customer local Twitter feeds for cities with populations of 100,000 or more. Weather-related tweets range from 200 per minute on an average day. An active weather day can bump this number to as high as 500 weather related tweets per minute.The Weather Channel Teams up with Twitter to Launch the Weather Channel SocialIf you have an iPhone, The Weather Channel 4.0.0 app update includes a new "Social" tab at the bottom that provides acces [...]

Read More: The Weather Channel iPhone App Gets Social: Crowdsourced Local Weather Related Tweets Now Available

This is a guest post by Tristan Handy, Director of Marketing at Argyle Social. Argyle is a leading social media marketing dashboard for business. My company, Argyle Social, was invited to participate in the Promoted Tweets beta as of January 24, 2011. For the past five months, we’ve used the channel fairly actively. Some campaigns [...]

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If you haven’t heard the news yet—yesterday, Netflix updated their pricing system, raising the price of a combined streaming and DVD-by-mail plan by a whopping 60 percent.  Netflix users are none too pleased and are lashing out on Twitter via the trending topic ‘Dear Netflix’.


Read More: 10 Disgruntled Tweets About The Netflix Price Hike

Today, MediaRoost, a social media startup serving clients in the CRM, sales, marketing and PR industries announced its enterprise Twitter platform, TweetRoost, will now support tweets beyond Twitter’s 140 character limit. This feature is essentially turning Twitter into a handy CRM system.

“We think it’s a great bonus for companies, especially those dealing with continuous inquiries related to customer service and support issues,” explained Mark Krieger, President of MediaRoost in the [...]

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“I know, Twitter, I'm supposed to be short,” president Barack Obama admitted after another multi-layered reply to a question about the high cost of living.


Read More: Obama Answers Only 18 Tweets at First #AskObama Tweetup