Ben Parr posted this article on Mashable.com talking about the upcoming changes to Twitter. 

“In an effort to remove the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.

In a blog post aptly titled Links and Twitters: Length Shouldn’t Matter, Twitter’s Sean Garrett announced that the company is taking a new approach to URLs. Not only will all links on Twitter.com and Twitter apps be “wrapped” in t.co links, but how they are counted against the 140 character limit. These change will occur throughout the summer.”

Read the complete article here on Mashable.

What a great read!

Curt Hopkins from Read Write Web shares the newest addition to Associated Press’s resources.

“Despite the fact that social media is hardly still the exclusive purview of the early adopter, it still surprises, grates or inspires laughter sometime to see it crop up outside its native ecosystem. So, when Associated Press, the official arbiter of terminology, text and typography turned to Twitter, it gave us funny feelings. We weren’t sure if we were being wooed or abused.

The 2010 AP Stylebook now carries a dark, dirty little section called “Social Media Guidelines.” Squeeeeee! Let’s look inside, shall we?

By Stefania Moretti at money.canoe.ca

“Twitter quietly took one step closer to profitability this week when it said it would ban third-party paid tweets in order to better monitor its proprietary advertising service.

In April, the micro-blogger unveiled the first phase of its Promoted Tweets service to disseminate information from businesses and organizations to wider user groups.

In a blog post Monday, the company said it would now move to block third-party ad tweets that undermine its Promoted Tweets from its timeline.”

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