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Detecting fake and malicious Twitter accounts
Tweet There has recently been a spike in the number of compromised Twitter accounts, which has increased concerns about the trustworthiness of information broadcast on Twitter and other social...
April 25, 2013 · 1:12 PM
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The use and abuse of social media in elections
Tweet The Pew Research Center reports that social media has become a feature of political and civic engagement for many in the U.S. “Some 60% of American adults use either social...
October 27, 2012 · 11:26 AM
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Gingrich Twitter followers not fake, just inactive
Tweet Three weeks ago, it was widely reported that an analysis by PeekYou concluded that more than 90% of Newt Gingrich’s 1.3M Twitter followers were fake accounts, probably purchased to make him...
August 25, 2011 · 11:42 AM
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Twitter at one billion tweets a week
Tweet Twitter reports that its users are sent an average of 140M tweets a day last month. That adds up to a billion a week, in round numbers. Another impressive statistic their post cites is...
March 15, 2011 · 9:04 AM
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Twitter changes TOS;might hurt researchers
Tweet ReadWriteWeb reports that Twitter recently made changes in its Terms of Service. Specifically, Twitter will no longer grant any more requests for whitelisting and it would no longer allow...
March 7, 2011 · 8:43 PM
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Twitter turns to ads
Sic transit gloria mundi. After building a huge audience, Twitter turns to ads to cash in: “In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison...
October 10, 2010 · 9:33 PM
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Is Twitters plan to log all clicks a privacy loss?
Twitter’s planned shortening of all links via its t.co service is about to happen. The initial motivation was security, according to Twitter: “Twitter’s link service at http://t.co is used to...
September 2, 2010 · 9:12 AM
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Twitter Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army
TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter is down due to an attack by someone claiming to be part of the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’. Since Twitter is now down, we can’t show a screen shot, but Techrunch...
December 18, 2009 · 1:52 AM

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