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Twitter Thinks You’ll Enjoy Tweets From Strangers

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More changes are coming to your Twitter timeline.

Twitter has announced an update to their service which many may not like. Twitter has been including Tweets in select timelines showing different types of content from people you don’t follow, and based on their testing plan to introduce Tweets in your timeline from people you don’t know.

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TwitPic Lives Again! Thanks To Unnamed Buyer

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So long Twitpic…

 

TwitPic lives again! Fans of the service are rejoicing today as an unnamed buyer swooped in to rescue the service from closing down. TwitPic has been under pressure from Twitter for alleged trademark issues (over the Twit part of their name). Founder Noah Everett claimed the reason he was shutting down the service was due to Twitter’s strong arm approach in the trademark matter.

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Social Media Convention Bringing Virtual Friends Together

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I can remember as a young adult being told to be careful who I spoke to online. You had to be safe and stay on your guard. We were told to never give people our name or give them any idea of where we lived.  Back then the  whole idea of picking a great username was basically to cover up your real name. Hence, fluffybunny 2987 was born. No, that wasn’t mine it was, um, a friends username…

Based on the information we were given at the time we just knew there were bad people on the other end of that internet connection…just waiting to get us! We were warned constantly about the dangers of talking to “strangers” online.

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