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    Market #FAIL: Eager investors appear to mix up 'Tweeter' with 'Twitter'

    Oct 05, 2013 05:12 PM EDT

    A long-bankrupt electronics retailer saw a sudden revival in the stock market on Friday after some investors confused the defunct company with the social networking service Twitter. Twitter expects to raise about $1 billion in its IPO. Tweeter Home Entertainment group went bankrupt in 2007, but its stock price ...

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    Twitter's revenue numbers reflect general shift of web from desktop to phone

    Oct 04, 2013 10:28 PM EDT

    Social media giant Twitter says it has 100 million daily users who create 500 million tweets a day. The company's new IPO filing gives the the world its first look at the business-side of Twitter. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Zach Seward of Quartz about the company's plan ...

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    How much money have you made for Twitter today?

    Oct 04, 2013 03:21 PM EDT

    Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images How long have you spent on Twitter this morning? And how much money has that made Twitter? Calcutating Twitter's average revenue per user, Quartz found that looking at your timeline once would earn Twitter $0.0008 (in the second quarter of this ...

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    Twitter Chat: The Value of Internships

    Oct 03, 2013 04:13 PM EDT

    ... paid or unpaid -- are a valuable experience, why internships have become so widespread, your experiences with unpaid internships and more. See a transcript of the chat below: PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats each Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @NewsHour using the #NewsHourChats.

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    Madeleine Albright joins Twitter

    Sep 23, 2013 02:06 PM EDT

    ... SecState, passionate democrat, author, prof, bizwoman, pin collector, & occasional drummer." She joins the other two former female secretaries, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton in the twitterverse. First of 3 female SecState's - last to join Twitter. Better late than never! pic.twitter.com/gDQZUvebnR— Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) September 23, 2013

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    Twitter Chat: How is Climate Change Affecting You?

    Sep 19, 2013 12:12 PM EDT

    ... rising temperatures mean for the Inupiat people of Barrow, Alaska. You can catch up on the latest in our climate change coverage by visiting Coping With Climate Change. *PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats each Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @NewsHour using #NewsHourChats.

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    Iran restores Facebook and Twitter blocks after "technical glitch"

    Sep 17, 2013 03:19 PM EDT

    On Monday, Facebook and Twitter were accessible in Iran for the first time in four years. One day later, Iran restored the social media blocks and said the short-lived access was due to "technical glitches." According to the Associated Press, many Iranians believed the lifted ban was a result ...

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    Facebook and Twitter are accessible in Iran for the first time in four years

    Sep 16, 2013 09:32 PM EDT

    Is Iran's Berlin Wall of internet censorship crumbling down? I am tweeting from Tehran from my cell without restrictions.— Thomas Erdbrink (@ThomasErdbrink) September 16, 2013 Internet users in Tehran received a welcome surprise today when they found they could access Twitter and Facebook without the block of the filtering ...

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    #TWITTER tweets plans to go public

    Sep 12, 2013 09:15 PM EDT

    We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.— Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013

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    Twitter Chat: Is College Worth the Steep Price?

    Sep 05, 2013 04:22 PM EDT

    PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats each Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @NewsHour using the hashtag #NewsHourChats. Photo By Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images. Summer may not be over for a few more weeks but Labor Day, September and the ...