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Twitter Wins Round One in Spammer Lawsuit Battle (AllThingsD)
According to a document filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Tuesday, the microblogging service settled ongoing litigation with TweetAdder, one of five defendants named in a series of lawsuits filed by Twitter in 2012…

Adobe
Adobe, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, today announced that it has hired the team behind creative design firm Ideacodes. The San Francisco-based startup had specialized in design and user experience for websites, web apps and blog networks. The Ideacodes cofounders will join as creative directors of Adobe’s Creative Cloud, which includes apps like Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign…

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Early Bird Tickets on Sale
We spend 58 minutes talking on or staring down at our smartphones, each and every day, according to a new survey by Experian. Surprisingly, almost half of that is good old-fashioned communicating via voice and text…

A new scam going around Facebook recently begins with a message to page owners about a new “Fan Page Verification Program.” From there, users are prompted to share their Facebook email and password, which is part of a phishing scam.
Similar to another scam that targeted page admins in the past, the message purports to be from Facebook Security and is designed to trick users into sharing their Facebook login information…

Facebook is testing new sidebar modules to prompt users to share the movies they have seen.
With the latest Timeline redesign Facebook has given users an About page with sections for movies, music, books and more. Instead of only displaying the items people “like,” these sections will show what users have “read,” “listened to,” “watched” or “want to watch…

Are you looking for ways to engage with your employees and your local community? Are you using social media to create awareness for the services you offer? Keep reading as I reveal how a nursing home used social media to build a loyal local community. Nursing Homes and Social Media? Nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and […

Leave it to science to determine what really matters in growing your Twitter following.
A new study from researchers at Georgia Tech reveals the definitive 14 factors that impact your Twitter follower count.
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Multimedia storytelling is all the rage on the Web right now. Not all of us have the budget and resources to pull off something as stunning as the New York Times’ acclaimed Snow Fall or The Guardian’s recent Firestorm, but you can still compile reports that encompass text, images, videos, audio and interactive polls using the recently-launched Soo Meta…

Another reason Twitter is awesome: Cambridge University linguists are using it to track how the usage of one of the U.K.’s Celtic languages, Welsh, is changing. Welsh is only spoken by around a sixth of the population of Wales — or some 562,000 people — but enough of those Welsh speakers are tweeting in Welsh to have allowed the researchers to compile a database of source material to use as a jumping off point for more detailed field research…

In Star Wars, R2-D2 provided Luke Skywalker with in-flight maintenance and navigation from within a little hatch on top of his X-wing fighter. In this comic, Scott Johnson of ExtraLife applies that same Star Wars tech to create something weird and hilarious.
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Comic illustration by ExtraLife…

One of the key challenges for any brand’s social media strategy is to create a sense of community and loyalty among its fans. Sometimes, that community already exists and the job of the social media leaders is to start engaging those people in new channels of communication. That’s what social media training and strategy firm Socialized! did when it was approached by Wizard World, the business that puts on “Comic Con” in cities across the U…