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American Express to launch pay-by-tweet
Tracey Samuelson Feb 12, 2013
Starting Wednesday, American Express customers who link their cards to their Twitter accounts will be able to make purchases with a tweet.
Twitter buys Bluefin, gets into ad tracking
Will Oremus Feb 8, 2013
Twitter's purchase of the research company Bluefin is about gathering the sort of social media info that can be used to extract more money from advertisers.
The Oreo Super Bowl tweet: 'Lightning in a bottle'
Kai Ryssdal Feb 4, 2013
Oreo's use of Twitter during the Super Bowl was well played, but not easily duplicated.
Twitter shines as lights go out at Superdome
Jim Burress Feb 4, 2013
A dark moment in football history is turning out to be a bright spot for social media.
Twitter's Vine makes porn video an 'editor's pick'
Kai Ryssdal Jan 28, 2013
The new app, which allows users to post and share six-second-long videos, chose a pornographic video this morning as its Editor's Pick. Whoops.
Twitter offers new challenge: 6-second videos
Sally Herships Jan 25, 2013
Twitter disproved skeptics of the 140-character tweet. Will it be able to turn a profit from six-second videos? Its new service, Vine, will try.
Tweeting videos through the Vine; Should Skype be more like Google?
Ben Johnson Jan 25, 2013
Twitter new acquisition, Vine, allows users to share short videos. And, privacy advocates are demanding Skype be more transparent about what data it shares with the government.
Happy New Year: A proposed end to 'trolling' and your life digitally archived
David Brancaccio Jan 1, 2013
Editor of Mashable Lance Ulanoff declares the end of online anonymous bullying, and imagining a digital archive of all our internet activity.
Social media impostors make real money
Peter O'Dowd Jan 2, 2013
Author Philip Roth's recent tweets were fake, but some celebrity spoofs have turned into profitable ventures.
Using Twitter to summon emergency help
Stephen Beard Dec 18, 2012
On the face of it, it sounds crazy: Your house or apartment is on fire, and rather than phoning the emergency services, you tweet them. But that is what the London Fire Brigade is mulling over.
