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Taylor Swift is providing fellow pop star Kesha with a financial shoulder to lean on, having donated $250,000 as a "show of support" in her legal battle with Dr. Luke, whom the singer alleged sexually assaulted her.
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Twitter has begun to roll out a new version of its timeline that displays tweets algorithmically instead of in the traditional reverse-chronological order. The feature will be disabled by default, to the relief of many vexed users.
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Weibo, the Chinese social network usually viewed as the country's answer to Twitter, has axed its 140-character limit on user posts and dramatically increased the maximum length to 2,000 characters. It comes amid rumours of Twitter doing the same soon.
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Twitter has removed the ability to favourite a tweet by clicking the star icon and replaced it with "Likes" signified by hearts. Described as a "universal symbol" that makes the network more accessible, many users are unhappy.
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Twitter has confirmed it is working on adding native support for polls in tweets. Voters will be able to click option buttons embedded in the tweet to cast their ballot. The feature is currently being tested with a limited number of users.
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Anchorage -
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin publicly ridiculed the ESPN sports network Friday for suspending baseball commentator Curt Schilling over an anti-Muslim comment he made on the website Twitter.
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The US Air Force has updated its propaganda message dating from WWII to make it more applicable in the digital age. The force has warned that troops carelessly revealing personal information online could inadvertently give enemies like ISIS an advantage.
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London -
A BBC reporter is in hot water tonight for erroneously tweeting Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II had died. It turned out to be a rather embarrassing mistake because it was supposed to be a rehearsal, just in case someone from the royal family died.
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Windows Phone is known to have a substantial app gap when compared to rival platforms like iOS and Android. One of the most notable absences is Snapchat who have continually refused to come to Windows but an unexpected tweet has suggested that may change.
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London -
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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Pope Francis sent a tweet against war on Syria. Twitter screen
Syrian Electronic Army tweets after hacking @AP Twitter screen capture
AP's twitter account was hacked. Twitter
Sent by an irate but humorous passenger on the Madrid metro. Twitter screen
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
Twitter: The man and the dog Twitter
Screen shot from Twitter Rick Wion, McDonald's
tweet from will.i.am about broadcast of his song from Mars Twitter/will.i.am
Using Twitter on a smartphone MDGovpics / Via Flickr
Pentametron - making poetry from your tweets. Pentametron
Twitter down: Social network suffers outage. © 2016 Twitter
Children's singer Raffi's tweet after the death of Kavna, Beluga Whale Raffi/Twitter
WikiLeaks Twitter feed Twitter screengrab
Jeffrey Goldberg Tweet Twitter/Jeffrey Goldberg
Heavy artillery tweet Grant Imahara
This is the Tweet Ari Fleischer complained about. http://www.mediaite.com/online/ari-fleischers-attack-on-the-might-of-obamas-twitter-account-hilariou
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