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April 9th, 2012 by Ann Smarty
Twitter’s roll out of built-in retweet functionality rubbed more than one user the wrong way when it laid claim to the term “retweet” itself, a community-crafted word that had a very specific use.
Meaning for one user to post a tweet originaly posted by another, with additional tags, thoughts or credits included as the retweeter wished, the word has been…
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December 14th, 2011 by Damian Davila
Founded by Nick Halstead back in 2008 in the U.K., Datasift is (as of the time this article was written) only one of the 2 companies in the world that Twitter has allowed to re-syndicate its content.
Nick is well known in social media circles because he founded TweetMeme, a leading platform in providing social news via Twitter available in…
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