Tweet News
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The Queen has sent her first tweet. The Twitter message was posted at the launch of a new Science Museum gallery in London.
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French citizens can now transfer money to friends and family via a simple tweet thanks to a partnership between Twitter and French bank Groupe BPCE.
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Madrid -
While sending what was actually an extremely serious tweet, Efe, a top Spanish news agency, accidentally added a hashtag which contained a colloquial term for "homosexual" in reference to the Spanish Prime Minister. The news agency has since apologized.
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Fashion designer Marc Jacobs is launching a Tweet Shop, where customers will use social media instead of cash for currency.
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Denver -
Duff Watson won't be flying Southwest Airlines again in the future, after he and his family were asked to leave the plane because he tweeted about the bad service he received at the gate.
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Apparently back in the 1950s there was a spate of UFO sightings in the skies above Norway. Finally, 60 years later, an explanation has been offered by the CIA on Twitter.
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Valerie Kasanita Adams, a shot putter from New Zealand, a four-time World champion, three time World Indoor champion and two-time Olympic and Commonwealth champion, thanked her chiropractor In a tweet for her 51st straight win.
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The GIF, a popular animated image format in the 80s, persevered and found a new place on the Internet. Where is this new place? Chances are you are using it now.
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Automated Twitter account @everyword has finally completed its task of tweeting out every single word in the dictionary to its many followers.
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It seems McDonald's new Happy Meal ambassador, dubbed rather originally "Happy," is not going down well on the social media. Going more by the name of "McScary," people are just not impressed.
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A "Game of Thrones" fan sent a joke tweet to Spain's rail network company Renfe, using rather poor spelling and grammar. A fellow fan at Renfe decided to respond in a similar vein and it's gone crazy on the Spanish social network scene.
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Dozens of people are now known to have tweeted joke 'humorous' bomb threats to American Airlines after the incident on Sunday night when a Dutch teenager tweeted the company.
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Los Angeles -
The L.A. Police Department have arrested a 20-year-old man for making criminal threats after he tweeted that he would shoot someone if he received 100 retweets on Twitter.
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Phuket -
International R&B star Rihanna may soon be adding "crime fighter" to her resume after her tweets led to the arrest of a bar owner in Thailand whose lewd shows she said left her "traumatized."
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New York -
How many times have you been drawn to a quote in an article that you wish you could share without the hassle of "copy and paste"? Thanks to a new experiment from The New York Times, "copy and paste" and "tweet" may soon be old news.
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TIME Magazine's senior national correspondent, Michael Grunwald, has been caught out sending a tweet which stated he can't wait to report on the execution of Julian Assange by drone strike. (Updated).
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Madrid -
Former actor and model now Spanish politician, Toni Cantó, is famous for his many gaffes, particularly on Twitter. Now he has sent a tweet mocking Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's slurry diction.
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Tattoo artist, Kat Von D, 31, and Joel Zimmerman, known as DJ Deadmau5, 32, will not be getting married, as they both have confirmed this.
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New York -
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez shared an unapproved update on his hip injury, angering the team's general manager Brian Cashman.
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On Monday, after reading a fake message from someone who claimed to be the British journalist Piers Morgan, Spanish tennis star Rafael (Rafa) Nadal tweeted news of the death of former South African president Nelson Mandela.
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When the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Twitter account of The Onion (the satirical, parody news website), at first people thought it was just the "normal" news. Since then both sides have confirmed the attack, with ever-increasingly morbid "humor."
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In the wake of recent attacks on Twitter accounts, including that of Associated Press on Wednesday, Twitter is planning to roll out two-factor authentication to make things a little more secure.
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On Tuesday an @AP tweet caused panic and hit the stock market, by broadcasting that the White House had been the subject of two explosions, and that President Barack Obama had been injured. AP's Twitter account had been hacked.
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Los Angeles -
"The Onion" made a rare apology Monday to 9-year-old best actress Oscar nominee, Quvenzhane Wallis, for the "senseless, humorless comment," the satirical publication published Sunday night on its Twitter account.
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You might not know this, but if your latest tweet was written in iambic pentameter, it might just get picked up by Pentametron, a Twitter bot turning random posts into poetry.
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, on board the Space Station, received a tweet from William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in Star Trek.
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Joe Budden, a Jersey City rapper and Slaughterhouse founding member, instructed his security to escort a woman out of his show, after she Tweeted that his Thursday night concert in Oakland was "dead".
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Late Tuesday night, after winning the 2012 U.S. Election, President Barack Obama shattered the world record for the most popular tweet ever, based on retweets, with a photo of the reelected president hugging his wife Michelle.
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Buckingham -
"Met the queen today, she has very posh toilets!" tweeted British Olympic medalist Gemma Gibbons as she breaks Royal protocol by posting a photo of the Queen's lavatory, or rather, loo – as the British would say – at Buckingham Palace.
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Khalif Mitchell, an all-star defensive tackle for the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League, was fined by the league Wednesday and suspended by his team for using a racial slur on Twitter. Mitchell had been suspended before for conduct on the field.
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Tweet Image
King Juan Carlos abdicates the crown of Spain. Twitter
Tweet sent by Spanish news agency Efe Twitter Fair Use
Pentametron - making poetry from your tweets. Pentametron
Screen shot from Twitter Rick Wion, McDonald's
This is the Tweet Ari Fleischer complained about. http://www.mediaite.com/online/ari-fleischers-attack-on-the-might-of-obamas-twitter-account-hilariou
Twitter to launch official Tweet button Courtesy Mashable
Screen capture of @AP's Twitter profile. Twitter screen capture
WikiLeaks response to controversial tweet by Mike Grunwald of TIMES magazine. Twitter screen
Children's singer Raffi's tweet after the death of Kavna, Beluga Whale Raffi/Twitter
For every Tweet sent with the hashtag #Tweet4Good through December 31, Twitter will donate $1.40 (up to a total of $35,000) in Twitter Ads to promote the @philredcross and their crisis relief efforts.
Fake tweet sent by parody of Piers Morgan. Screen capture
Sent by an irate but humorous passenger on the Madrid metro. Twitter screen
Lady' Gaga tweets after barfing on stage in Barcelona Twitter/Lady Gaga
Spain's Air Traffic Control sent tweets after a meteor was seen streaking across the sky in the north of the Canary Islands. Twitter screen
AFP's Twitter photo feed was hacked by pro-Assad supporters. Screen capture of @AFPphoto
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