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A new report from Twopcharts has found that 44% of the world’s Twitter accounts have yet to send a Tweet. With approximately 974 million Twitter accounts, that’s an awful lot of dead air. As the Wall Street Journal points out, however, this could mean that people, scammers, or bots simply signed up for an account and never came back—or that there are hordes of shy people out there waiting for the moment to strike. Do you have a Twitter account you have never used? If not, why not? [Wall Street Journal]

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Twitter just revealed that pop-up interaction notifications will roll out in the coming weeks. Meaning that when you’re logged on via twitter.com, you’ll get notifications for replies, retweets, and faves—assuming you’ve tweaked your settings to display them. [Twitter]

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It goes without saying that companies ought to move on with the times, and that would include its offerings to the masses. When it comes to software or hardware, a new iteration is always more than welcome, especially when it deals with the introduction of better features that go one up against the rest of the competition. Twitter has been around for quite a while already, and your Twitter profile tells the entire world who you are to a certain extent. Twitter has redesigned the user profile thanks to a new and improved web profile.

This new web profile would enable one to make use of a larger profile photo, not to mention letting you customize your header, and to show off your best Tweets, among others. Just what are best Tweets? They are basically tweets that have already received more engagement than the rest, appearing a wee bit larger so that your best content is a snap to locate.

Not only that, you also have the Pinned Tweet feature, where you are able to pin one of your tweets right on top of the page, making it a snap for your (legions of) followers to check out what you are made up of. Filtered Tweets gives you the option to pick from the timeline of your choice whenever you check out other profiles, where you can select from Tweets, Tweets with photos/videos, or Tweets and replies options. This new profile setup is already available to a select group of users. [Press Release]

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That major redesign Twitter was teasing earlier this year? It’s here. And it’s got a few features we hadn’t heard about thrown in for good measure. Welcome to Facewitter, or Twitbook. It’s actually pretty nice!

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It’s very easy to forget that social media is not a charitable institution that wants you to connect to the world. The truth of the matter is that we humans … Continue reading