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Twitter bots are boosting brands – survey

June 8, 2012 7:00 am by FT

Could some corporate twitter feeds – shock and horror – not be as popular with real people as they appear? New research published on Friday by a professor at Milan’s IULM University suggests that may well be the case, writes Eric Sylvers in Milan.

Marco Camisani Calzolari, a professor of corporate communications and digital languages, has examined the Twitter followers of 39 companies with major consumer brands, including DellOutlet, Starbucks, and Blackberry, and tried to determine which followers are likely humans and which are likely bots, or fake accounts. Read more

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Tim Bradshaw Prince Alwaleed talks up Apple, Twitter and the Murdochs – but hasn’t heard of Yuri Milner

February 8, 2012 3:46 pm by Tim Bradshaw

The legacy of Steve Jobs will ensure strong results for Apple for up to two more years, according to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi billionaire and major investor in the Cupertino firm.

Prince Alwaleed, whose foundation has also invested in Twitter and News Corp, appeared on the high-class chat show Charlie Rose hosts for PBS and Bloomberg on Tuesday night, where he discussed issues ranging from the Syrian crisis and Iran’s nuclear programme to Citigroup (Vikram Pandit has been “an excellent CEO”, he said).

For other technology and media investors, though, his supportive comments for Rupert and James Murdoch, Twitter’s business model and Apple’s outlook are of most interest. Read more

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Sky’s the limit on retweets

February 7, 2012 10:40 pm by FT

In what the Twittering classes have universally seen as a retrograde step,  Sky News introduced a new social media policy on Tuesday, which includes an effective ban on its journalists retweeting non-Sky sources, writes Ben Fenton.

I haven’t seen the email myself, but I am confident from several sources that the offending sentence runs like this:  “Do not re-tweet information posted by other journalists or people on Twitter”. Read more

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Tim Bradshaw Samsung, Instagram and Twitter score at Super Bowl

February 6, 2012 12:06 pm by Tim Bradshaw

Tech news from around the web, Super Bowl edition:

Although automotive companies were the most prolific advertisers during Sunday’s Super Bowl, many of the $7m-a-minute spots also involved tech companies – large and small. Read more

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Tim Bradshaw Megaupload users could soon lose all their files

January 31, 2012 3:17 pm by Tim Bradshaw

Tech news from around the web:

People who used Megaupload to store files – legitimate or otherwise – could soon find their data has been deleted altogether, reports the WSJ. Federal prosecutors bringing a huge criminal copyright infringement action against the file-sharing site have written to the Virginia judge overseeing the case, saying: “It is our understanding that the hosting companies may begin deleting the contents of the servers beginning as early as February 2, 2012.” Read more

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Richard Waters Twitter selectively gags the little blue bird

January 27, 2012 2:13 am by Richard Waters

Twitter has gained something of a reputation for standing up for internet users against institutional authority, for instance in fighting a gag order in the Wikileaks case.

But even Twitter has to bow to censorship sometimes. Read more

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Wikipedia members agree to blackout

January 17, 2012 3:03 am by April Dembosky

Wikipedia confirmed that it would black out all English language versions of its website around the globe this Wednesday, in opposition to two proposed anti-piracy laws in the US.

More than 1800 “Wikipedians” discussed various protest actions they could take to stall the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), and late on Monday, settled on the 24-hour blackout, to begin at 5 a.m. UTC/GMT on Wednesday.

Wikipedia users will not be able to read or edit English pages, though articles about SOPA and PIPA will remain accessible to readers. Read more

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Story of the Week: Google turns to search to promote Google+

January 14, 2012 5:57 am by Maryam Nabi

Twitter’s displeasure with Google’s “Search plus Your World” may have been the most loudly heard reaction,  but tech commentators also took to their blogs to criticise Google’s latest enhancement to personalised search this week. Read more

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Tim Bradshaw Google and Twitter scrap publicly over social search

January 11, 2012 1:08 pm by Tim Bradshaw

Google and Twitter have become embroiled in a war of words over the search engine’s new “your world” update, which has raised concerns that it would over-emphasise Google’s own social network over its rivals. Read more

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Tim Bradshaw Twitter opens Verified Accounts to music app developers

January 10, 2012 11:21 pm by Tim Bradshaw

The latest tweets from Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga could soon be appearing alongside their music in media players such as iTunes or Spotify after Twitter began a new pilot programme to integrate its celebrity users into external services. Read more

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