At this point, most people know that Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion. More details on the deal between Facebook and Instagram have surfaced indicating that Facebook significantly outbid twitter. Reuters reports that twitter made a bid weeks before Facebook swooped in with $1 billion of roughly half that amount.
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New research could yield the ability to detect fake tweets
I think most of us know that you can't believe everything you read on the Internet. This is particularly true of twitter and other social networks where things have a way of getting twisted as they are repeated and tweets can often be outright lies. Patrick Meier of the Qatar Foundation's Computing Research Institute and a group of researchers are working on a project in machine-learning algorithms that may eventually be able to detect fake tweets and hoaxes automatically.
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Twitter archive download option begins roll-out
Twitter has reportedly begun rolling out its "tweet archive download" option, allowing users of the micro-blogging service to save a cache of all of the messages they've ever posted. The feature, promised to be on the roadmap before 2012 was done by Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo, is still believed to be progressively rolling out to users - presumably to avoid a server storm of eager archivists - but will seemingly work much as Facebook's system works.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 12, 2012
Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone. With the new year coming up shortly, a couple of companies took a look back at the year we're leaving behind, with Facebook posting its Year in Review and Google Zeitgeist 2012 going live. A video of an L-series BlackBerry 10 device hit the Internet today, and you can now have a look at SlashGear's calendar using UpTo on iOS or Android. Facebook was named the best place to work at in 2013, while Google revealed that it doesn't have any plans to develop apps for Windows 8.
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The Paradoxical Power of the Tiny Tweet
How did Twitter suddenly become the most powerful force for consumer advocacy? I can’t complain, because I’ve reaped the benefits, but it is fascinating that this tiny service, minute in so many ways, offers so much power to the individual user. It’s become easy, almost second nature, to wield this power over the mightiest of corporations. What’s most shocking, by far, is that it actually seems to work. You can really bend the will of a multinational conglomerate using Twitter in ways that seemed impossible talking to a representative of the same company face to face.
Pinterest adds Twitter Cards support
Pinterest has quietly thrown in with Twitter Cards, enabling previews of posts from the content-collecting service embedded in tweets, and countering the high-profile departure of Instagram. The new functionality sees any Pinterest links embedded in tweets converted into thumbnail previews, the same thing that so frustrated Instagram and drove it to cut ties with the contentious Cards system.
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Pope tweets: Benedict XVI breaks ice on @Pontifex account
Pope Benedict XVI has sent his first tweet, the first time the head of the Catholic Church has waded into the waters of 140-character social networking, and blessing all 675,000+ of his English-language followers. The first message followed a high-profile run up to the Twitter debut, with the Pontiff's plans to expand his social media footprint revealed last week.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 11, 2012
Welcome to Tuesday evening everyone. Today Angry Birds celebrated its third birthday with a slew of new levels for players, but that wasn't the only thing announced for the celebration. As it turns out, there's an Angry Birds movie slated for release in 2016, with Despicable Me's John Cohen attached to produce. Yes, this is really happening, but the question now is whether or not people will still be playing Angry Birds in another three years. Verizon confirmed the Samsung Galaxy Camera in cobalt black today, while Twitter looked back on its highlights of 2012.
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Twitter 5.2 update for iOS brings 8 photo filters from Aviary
The Twitter update you’ve been waiting for is now live with version 5.2 complete with a collection of photo filters to take on Instagram directly. This update has been in the works for some time and is brought to a head here just days after Instagram cut ties with the mini-blogging giant, opting for their own separate network instead. Here with Twitter 5.2 you’ll be working with Twitter-centric photo filters for a cut-down on muli-app clutter.
Twitter “best of 2012″ collection released in yearly celebration
It's only once a year that Twitter recollects the best of the best, and this year - like many years before - has been the best of the best in and of itself. Here in 2012 the folks at Twitter have created a collective experience that shows off the most engaging experiences from the past 300+ days as well as some of the most important moments that've happened "Only on Twitter" straight from the people that use the service to engage the world on a daily basis. Everything from President Barack Obama celebrating Four More Years to a Tweet from Mars!
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Twitter blasts Instagram with filter app update… but where is it?
Twitter's updated mobile app with added photo filters to offset the pain of lost Instagram integration was an unsurprising announcement yesterday, but the iOS version of the software is still yet to show up for users. The new app introduces eight filters, including Black and White, Warm, Cool, Vintage, Cinematic, and Happy, which can be applied to shots prior to sharing them. However, head over to the App Store, and you'll only find Twitter for iOS v5.1 [iTunes link], dating back to November 15 and lacking any sort of photo filters.
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Twitter launches photo filters for iOS and Android apps
We’ve been anticipating the arrival of photo filters on Twitter’s app for awhile now, with a rumor having surfaced back on November 2 that the social network was going to launch its own filters to compete against Instagram. The information came from inside sources, who stated that the filters would be launched “in the coming months.” Now, a little over a month later, Twitter has officially announced the photo filters and rolled them out to its iOS and Android apps.
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