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Dec 8, 2011New York Times
Twitter unveiled an ambitious new design on Thursday that is intended to draw new users, keep them on the social network longer and attract more advertisers.
Central to the new look and feel are two broad changes. The service’s main pag...
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Jul 20, 2011Christian Science Monitor
Many politicians use Twitter and other social media simply to post campaign ads or other information they want to broadcast, Hemingway says. But one of his clients is a high-ranking Republican in Congress who will personally respond to tweets with...
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Jul 15, 2011L.A. Times
Twitter was launched publicly five years ago, on July 13, 2006, and has gone from an unknown text-messaging and Web service then called Twttr to one of the biggest forces in social media.
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The fifth birthday for the soci...
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Jul 7, 2011San Francisco Chronicle
[...] Aaron Smith, a senior research specialist with the Pew Research Center, said Pew Internet studies show Twitter's demographics are also a key.
"When you look at Twitter in comparison with some of the other online tools, it skews a ...
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Jun 1, 2011Washington Post
More than one in 10 adults online in the United States uses Twitter, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
The latest numbers put Twitter use at about 13 percent, a marked increase from the first time...
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Jun 1, 2011L.A. Times
About 13% of online adults in the U.S. also use Twitter, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.
That's up from 8% about six months ago -- a testament to the 5-year-old social networking site's growing p...
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Jun 1, 2011msnbc.com
Twitter usage among young adults has doubled in the past six months and is also rising in popularity with minorities, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
The study found that Twitter use by those ages ...
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Jun 1, 2011CNN
(CNN) -- Among U.S. adults who go online, 13% use Twitter -- and more than half (54%) of these people access the popular social media service with their mobile phone, according to Read More
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