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Twitter to Launch Embeddable Tweets

By Mark Evans | Published: May 4, 2010
As tweets are increasingly cited and quoted, it makes complete sense that Twitter is introducing a new tool that will make it easy to embed a tweet into a Web site or blog post – much like a YouTube video or Google Map or can be embedded. It’s a smart move because it will give Twitter [...]
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Tweet, Anyone? Not!

By Mark Evans | Published: March 9, 2010
The folks at Twitter sure know how to have fun! Earlier today, they caused a stir by quietly changing the “Update” button to “Tweet”. This caused a huge stir within the blogosphere based on the theory that anything Twitter does is news. Just when the “Tweet” news started to get heavily reported, Twitter switched it back to [...]
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Twitter At Courtside

By Mark Evans | Published: September 1, 2009
There’s a lot of things you can do with Twitter but sometimes you run across something that’s a head-scratcher. A good example is Peter Robert Casey, who is going to live Tweet the St. John’s University’s men’s basketball games this year after being given media credentials. Technically, I’m sure someone who types fast can live Tweet basketball [...]
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No Tweet for Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: August 20, 2009
The word “tweet” has become a part of the digiterati’s vernacular as Twitter is used by more people. So, it was somewhat surprising to see Twitter revealed that it had applied for a trademark on “tweet” because “it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective”. The good news for all you “tweet” lovers out [...]
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Twitter: What’s Next; the Purchase of Tweet.com?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 1, 2009
You’d think Twitter would have better things to do than deciding to make become a little more protection of its trademark over the word “Tweet” while promising it has “no intention of “going after the wonderful applications and services that use the word in their name when associated with Twitter”. For a company that has let [...]
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