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An Astounding Stat from Twitter: 162,000 apps suspended

We like Twitter, and we liked it even before all the celebs started turning it into their megaphone (or Maga-phone). We liked it before the sentiment of every public event was simulcast on live news shows trying to stay relevant to an audience that was leaving them for online news. We liked Twitter when they had the most open API of any social network and allowed developers to create truly innovative combinations pretty much untethered. We still like Twitter, but…

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David Schwimmer: Theater and Tech

Actor, writer, and producer, David Schwimmer, co-founder of The Lookingglass Theatre, came to 1871 on March 9th. With him was Alex Zeldin, the writer/director of the new Lookingglass play, Beyond Caring. This play is a re-imagined piece about temporary workers’ lives. They started off the chat with intros, but their main intent was to get to know the audience and their expressions towards the theater. Zeldin and Schwimmer asked a series of questions, including “How many people here go to…

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How Twitter Helps Investor Relations

A Tweet on if Tweets Help business. gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/…) — Jeff Walker (@ContentCarnivor) April 17, 2013 A new empirical study suggests that Twitter helps little-known companies overcome the natural bias of traditional news media toward bigger companies that already get buzz. Researchers, who include Elizabeth Blankespoor, Stanford Graduate School of Business, showed how tweeting measurably increased the market liquidity of stocks that normally received little attention.

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