Twitter knows when you sleep

Google engineers, Manuel Rios, and Jimmy Lee conducted an analysis of activity reports and found some interesting facts about the inhabitants of big cities. So, for example, found that residents of Istanbul in the summer of sleeping less than in winter, but the users of the Brazilian Sao Paulo really respect the afternoon siesta, as the number of tweets here falls off sharply in the afternoon.New Yorkers about tweets with the same intensity in both day and evening, but tokiytsy are disciplined workers - from 10 to 18 hours local time on user activity is low, the difference between the number of messages in the winter and summer is almost not observed.All these data could potentially be interesting for the advertisers who work with such a platform, like Twitter. With their network of microblogging can help advertisers better campaigns targeted to a particular group of recipients. Determining the location, experts say, is one of the most exciting moments of the study, especially for advertisers who want to send money in advertising as the target audience.Today, the Twitter service has closed the previously functioned Thuderclap, using instead Promoted Tweets. Both of these services have a similar orientation, but if the first was presented as a solution for mass mailing within the target groups, the second has a more specific orientation of advertising and can be used more widely and on commercial terms.Along with disabling services Thunderclap, was disconnected and the appropriate API-functional.

Twitter will struggle with obsessive advertisers

The Western press has been informed by the Director of Technology at the Federal Trade Commission United States (FTC) Ed Felten that the administration service Twitter will soon decide on the entry into force of the functions on the Do Not Track microblogging service.

Do Not Track is a feature that will prevent the collection of personal information about the user network. At present this function supports browsers Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera.

Effects Do Not Track is based on the principle of prevention of advertisers that the user does not want him to collect any information and treated it, or brought into the base of potential customers.

Twitter's initiative to take part in the fight against Assertive advertisers, who sometimes go all crossed the line and violate the privacy of personal data support the developers at Mozilla.

Statistics show that the function of preventing harassment in the network is enabled by 8.6% a PC that is running the browser Firefox.

Twitter launches a weekly mailing popular posts

Microblogging service Twitter, whose user base is already more than 200 million people worldwide, has officially announced the launch of new functionality, which is obviously useful for people who can not appear there regularly to view the message. As the information in a corporate blog, Twitter, users can now receive e-mail digest of a special assembly, which will include the most interesting and popular recordings.

As part of our weekly newsletter will be available to the user selection of interesting posts from owners of micro-blogging, which he had previously signed up, and their retweets, replai and add to your favorites.

In addition, this digest will enable users to view popular news stories, and find out who his friends on Twitter publish this link and read the comments to her.

However, as it will be selected messages to a mailing is not specified, and the launch of the new functionality will be implemented over the next few weeks.

Among other things, if you do not want to receive the specified digest to subscribe to it will be possible to refuse, change account settings, and very similar to an option, obviously, was made possible after the acquisition of Twitter in the early years of the incubator Summify news and the recent purchase of service mailings RestEngine.

Twitter has defended in court the details of your user

Twitter microblogging network will challenge a court order requiring the transfer of personal data, is accused of street riots last year in New York in the framework of the campaign "Borrow Wall Street." According to available information, it is the user known as Malcolm Harris, who, along with several hundred other people accused of organizing illegal action on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on October 1, 2011.

The prosecutor's office in New York wants to get from the private archive of Twitter messages from September 15 to December 31, 2011, as well as personal information of the blog owner. Twitter has been involved in this process from 26 January this year. Prosecutors demand from the network delivery of data, in accordance with section 2703 telecommunications law Stored Communications Act, which regulated aspects related to data storage. The law requires the service provider's disclosure of certain types of electronic communications without a court warrant.

In Twitter speak, that on January 30 by Malcolm Harris informed that his data requested by U.S. courts, while also filing a motion to set aside requirement. The judge dismissed the petition on April 20, ruling that blog posts are not subject to the information that is subject to the law.

The memo, released Tuesday, Twitter said that the law Stored Communications Act in the form in which it treats the prosecution, impose "undue burden" on the service provider. In addition, a network of microblogging stated that if the user's personal data can be somehow tied to the law, the posts in the blog are his property and the company can not and should not be their issue.

Also on Twitter saying that before the law, the rule applied only to banks, on financial transactions, but to apply it to social networks would be wrong. Moreover, the famous American First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the user the right to possess their property, including the content.

The American Civil Liberties Union welcomed the victory of Twitter in court, claiming that the decision of the court - this is a positive signal for all of Western Internet companies.

BBC banned its reporters to write news on Twitter

BBC forbade its employees to write or exclusive breaking news on Twitter, before they will notify their colleagues about what happened.

The corresponding statement was made editor of Social Media by Chris Hamilton.

The statement says that journalists must first inform the emergency news in writing to his colleagues, so that they could have it send out to all BBC services (the company combines a number of TV channels, radio stations and websites in different languages).

The company noted the importance of Twitter in the press, but added that the priority for them is to alert the audience the BBC, not just people reading microblogs.

Note that this decision followed a statement from the broadcaster Sky News, which has banned its employees working in the accounts, retweet messages from users not employed by the company. Broadcaster also warned employees that they are not written in the working accounts of events not directly related to work. In addition, Sky News journalists were asked to refrain from assessing those who cover their colleagues.

Because of the joke on Twitter British tourists were not allowed in the U.S.

U.S. authorities have denied the pair of British tourists entry into the country after they have allowed themselves to make a joke of a network of microblogging Twitter.

The phrase "destroy America", hosted in Britain microblog resident Brian Ley van was spotted by police agents in a few weeks before he went on holiday in the U.S..

Upon arrival at the international airport in Los Angeles, he and his girlfriend were arrested by armed guards, and then for five hours and interrogated, then he was handcuffed and placed in a bus with illegal immigrants, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the British newspaper The Sun.

They spent the night in different prisons, and were then flown home. According to the British tourist who was treating them like with these terrorists.

Brian was arrested despite the fact that the police tried to explain - a phrase destroy America (literally - "to destroy America"), he at the British slang in Twitter was trying to say that the U.S. is planning a fun walk and popyanstvovat.

Also, a British tourist was questioned about another of his jokes in the microblog, which literally meant that he was going on a trip to the United States engaged in digging the grave of Marilyn Monroe. In fact, as explained by Brian, he just quoted a phrase from the American animated television comedy Family Guy.

The police even checked luggage of British tourists trying to find them in spades. Brian girlfriend Emily suspected that she had to perform evasive action at a moment when he would be engaged in opening the grave.

Recall, January 18, Moscow police have detained at Domodedovo two natives of Kabardino-Balkaria, one of which failed joked, saying that he was going to blow up the airport.

How to get around censorship Twitter

Recently introduced by blocking the content of individual countries can be easily bypassed.

The user has the legal ability to circumvent a ban on the content, imposed microblogging service: it is sufficient to choose the country in which this prohibition does not apply, according to Haim Anna (Anna Haim) from The Next Web.

Locked tweet says Gray in the news

To delete messages that violate the laws of a country, microblogging service must first determine in which country the user is located. Twitter can do this only after analyzing your IP-address. In order to avoid errors in determining the country of Twitter allows users to specify its own. To do this, just go to account settings and select any country from the list.

It must be remembered that the need to make changes not in «location» (location profiles), and in the «country»

Saudi billionaire has bought shares in Twitter for $ 300 million

The billionaire from Saudi Arabia and also the nephew of Saudi King Abdullah, Prince Al Waleed bin Talal, and his company, Kingdom Holding Company bought a stake in microblogging network Twitter for $ 300 million According to the company Kingdom, multi-million dollar investment was "the result of months of negotiations." "Our investment in Twitter confirms our ability to identify suitable opportunities for investment in promising and rapidly growing companies that have global significance," - said Al-Walid. Based on assessments by experts, for $ 300 million could buy it from 3.5% to 4% of Twitter. Note that Prince Al-Waleed is an investor in a number of Western companies, including Citigroup and News Corp. Meanwhile, his wife - Princess Amira al-Tawil - a big fan of microblogging. She writes regularly on Twitter in English and Arabic. Entries princess read more than 30 thousand followers. As reported in early December, microblogging service Twitter has launched a massive update interface, including a new design of pages and tabs on the connection (@ Connect) and in the course (# Discover). 

Twitter updates interface

Microblogging service Twitter launches massive update interface, including a new design of pages and tabs on the connection (@ Connect) and in the course (# Discover), said in a company blog Twitter.

Back to the main Twitter page, you can now see an icon in the form of "home" at the top of the service. Tweets from accounts that are signed by the user are now displayed in the right half of the main page, not the left as before.

When you click on an individual tweet from now on you can see the responses and retweets, as well as photos and videos, built-in message.

In the left pane of the main page is located a block with a brief user's account information (the number of tweets, read the list of accounts and readership profile) and the possibility to leave a new message. Also in the left side of the main page are moved to the user accounts and recommended a list of trends Twitter.

The tab on the connection (@ Connect) on top of the Twitter allows users to see who signed up for his account or mentioned his name, retvitnul post or added to your favorites.

The course in the tab (# Discover) you can see results that reflect the interests of the user, which were obtained from the analysis of its location, language settings, and the reading list of hobbies. The system is self-learning - it stores information about the preferences and adjusts the sample results.

Design a personal page on Twitter has also changed. Basic information about your account is now located in a separate block on top of profile page.

Also on the profile page you can send a tweet to the user, see the lists of readers read accounts, photographs and so on. Here you can keep track of your personal messages.

Finally, using the button Tvitnut (Tweet) on top of the home as well as profile pages, you can send your message, including photos, location, or a link to a video or news.

Since the mobile service is actively growing audience, the content of the main page on the website Twitter.com now repeats the application interface for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android-devices.

According to the developers, the new design service is available to all users in the coming weeks. In addition, in the near future Twitter plans to release updated applications for the iPad and other mobile devices with the new interface.

The number of registered users of microblogging service Twitter over the world exceeds 200 million. However, about 50 million users log on to the service every day.

Twitter helps to the victims of earthquake in Turkey

Not enough have been done to help the victims of previous deadly earthquake. There are still people sitting on the streets who have lost their homes. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the country on Sunday.  Erhan Çelik, a journalist for Turkey's Kanal 7 TV station, suggested that there will be a lot of those willing to help if he send a twit to his 22,000 twitter followers. He offered to send an email to those who want to provide an accommodation to the victims. In seven hours he twitted that there is 17,000 emails in his mailbox. Soon after that he twitted that the hot line would be opened to take offers of accommodation by the Istanbul authorities. Hot line was working for 24 hours. The offers were coming to twitter also.
Erhan Çelik also offered to three operators to provide their subscribers with free text messages and minutes so they could reach loved ones. Facebook also played role in all this by giving instructions where aid is needed.
That is how social networks works in emergencies. Erhan Çelik has shoved it.

Топ наиболее инновационных компаний за 2011

У меня перед глазами очередной топ. На этот раз Топ-50 самых инновационных компаний 2011.
Конечно же на первом месте Apple, Twitter и Facebook. Что в общем не удивляет совершенно, учитывая рост их показателей за последнее время. Что интересно, в топ попали две российские компании: Yandex (26 место за "Доблестный поиск") и Kaspersky (32 место за "За превращение армии хакеров в армию борцов с вирусами"). В первую десятку также вошли такие известные компании как Nissan (4 место) и Google (6 место).
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