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Twitter Will Become Available in Right-to-Left Languages This Spring

Twitter announced languages read right to left would be coming to the Twitter Translation Center, beginning with Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Twitter will become fully available in those four languages later this spring, once volunteer translators have completed their …

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Twitter Acquires Malware Protection Company

Gearing up for Twitter's self-serve advertising launch — currently in beta stage with only a small selection of advertisers — the company announced its acquisition of spam and malware protection service Dasient on Monday.

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Twitter is much more than social: co-founder Dorsey

MUNICH (Reuters) – Twitter is much more than a social network and has no time to waste worrying about newcomers like Google+ as it becomes more important as an information service and builds its advertising business, co-founder Jack Dorsey said …

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Twitter Gobbles Up Summify

Twitter has acquired startup company Summify, a social aggregation service that collects news stories that are being shared on your social networks and puts them into a daily summary.

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Twitter acquires Summify – will it fix the site's 'noise' problem?

Twitter has acquired social reader Summify, and will likely work in the site’s content summary technology into its own application. “Our long-term vision at Summify has always been to connect people with the most relevant news for them, in the …

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Twitter Suspends Popular Tweet-Filtering App

Twitter has suspended the popular tweet-filtering app Proxlet for "violating terms" of its API rules.

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Twitter to Play Crucial Role in South Carolina Republican Debate

Televised Republican debates are about to heat up — not only between the remaining five party presidential candidates — but between viewers using Twitter. Fox News hopes to open up the digital floor for comments during Monday's Republican debate in …

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Updated: Twitter UK Poaches BBC Sport Social Media Editor As Olympics Nears

Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire, Lewis Wiltshire, who oversees social media for BBC Sport. The …

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Twitter co-founder complains of Chinese blocking

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey arrived on a visit to China on Thursday and complained of the blocking of his popular service in an online exchange with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

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