Wednesday, 19 June 2013 | ABC NewsYour Instagram feed of still photos of your friends and their food might soon have video of those things too. According to various reports, Instagram will add video to its popular photo-sharing service. The announcement is expected at the Facebook ...
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Monday, 17 June 2013 | USA TODAYMENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook and Twitter's long-standing rivalry is expected to heat up around viral videos on Thursday. The social networking's Instagram photo-sharing app, in a bid to stay popular, could launch a competitor to Twitter's Vine short ...
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Thursday, 20 June 2013 | Cebu Daily NewsMANILA, Philippines – The Internet is abuzz over a photograph that James Yap posted on Instagram, fuelling rumors the blonde girl with him in the photo is his new girlfriend. The post came in the wake of his estranged partner Kris Aquino's remark ...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 | TechHiveFacebook's coffee-stained paper invitation to a Thursday announcement in Menlo Park promised a new product, which by all accounts will be Vine-like videos for Instagram. Not exactly new, but Facebook is clearly taking aim at Twitter. According to All ...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 | MashableWelcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. A report in the Washington Post indicates Google ...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 | Hashtags have become a prominent part of the online atmosphere and as of late, more and more social media sites have allowed for the categorizing program known as Hashtags. Hashtags are used to allow users to tag posts, pictures, or even video with a ...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 | Facebook announced hashtags last week, giving validation to everyone who used the original Twitter function to drive home their point in a Facebook status update. What was once unnecessary is now helpful in discovering new content in Facebook, and ...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 | Typing #hashtags into status updates on Facebook is popular with users, but nothing happens when you click on them - adding one is a kind of social media in-joke that parodies the hashtag's ubiquity on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Google+, and ...
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 | However, vagueness is part of the appeal of a policy idea. Its very nebulousness is what draws people to it and allows them the important opportunity to attach their own meanings and demands. Organic labels, hashtags and alternative meanings will arise.
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 | This week, David Cameron has announced a visit to Kazakhstan; the first ever visit by a British leader to Central Asia. On the agenda will be security issues, the pull-out from Afghanistan, and oil and gas. Though the human rights climate in Kazakhstan ...
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A word, phrase or topic that is tagged at a greater rate than other tags is said to be a trending topic (TT for short).
Trending topics become popular either through a concerted effort by users or because of an event that prompts people to talk about one specific topic.
These topics help Twitter and their users to understand what is happening in the world.
Trending topics are sometimes the result of concerted efforts by fans of certain celebrities or cultural phenomena. The trend algorithm has been altered in the past to prevent manipulation of this type.
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