It’s been a little less than three months since Mark Luckie left The Washington Post to become manager of journalism and news at Twitter, and now he’s got some advice for journalists using the microblogging network.

Working in conjunction with Twitter’s Platforms and Analytics team, Luckie combed through thousands of tweets sent by journalists and [...]

There were more people posting the article to LinkedIn than there were people tweeting about it.And that’s when the sledgehammer hit me. Twitter has a huge new competitor with the potential to swamp them, particularly in one critical area. And, it is all of their own making.Back in July Twitter announced that it was no [...]

Although it has only been a mainstream social network for a few short years, Twitter has formed a surprisingly tight and symbiotic relationship with the media, both because it is a kind of real-time newswire for information about events like the Arab Spring and the upcoming U.S. election, and also because it gives journalists an [...]

Although most of the API changes were previously announced, the overview of the final API highlighted some that were previously unknown. The one sure to cause the most immediate frustration: Twitter is ending support for RSS, XML and Atom.

While it was easy to see the loss of XML coming — Twitter has slowly dropped [...]

The changes in Twitter API V 1.1 are all designed to foster “a consistent Twitter experience” and include universal endpoint authentication, per-endpoint rate-limiting and a number of crucial changes to the “Developer Rules of the Road.” It may be the latter changes that prove most troubling to the remaining collection of third-party, consumer-focused Twitter clients.

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The main goal of StatusPeople’s web app is to find out “how many fake followers you and your friends have.” The company, which creates social-media management software, released the tool as a side project in July to shed light on a user’s follower quality. While the makers emphasize on their site that their metrics aren’t [...]

The main goal of StatusPeople’s web app is to find out “how many fake followers you and your friends have.” The company, which creates social-media management software, released the tool as a side project in July to shed light on a user’s follower quality. While the makers emphasize on their site that their metrics aren’t [...]