For baseball fans, October is synonymous with the playoffs. The postseason berths and brackets went down to the wire, finally being cemented after the last day of the regular season yesterday. The #postseason starts tonight, with Division Series slots on the line in a single winner-take-all game. The @Rangers and @Orioles face off in the AL Wild Card playoff, and the @Braves take on the reigning champions the @Cardinals … [Read more...]
The topic of tonight’s presidential debate was domestic policy, and citizens all over came to Twitter to share their comments and follow millions of real-time responses from pundits, campaigns, and fellow voters.As conversation on the Denver stage and on Twitter ranged from Medicare to Big Bird, there were more than 10 million Tweets this evening, making this first of the 2012 presidential debates the most tweeted-about event in U.S. … [Read more...]
Tonight in Denver, President Obama and Governor Romney will take the stage to face each other for 90 minutes in the first of three presidential debates for the 2012 election. The debate starts at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT with Jim Lehrer moderating; tonight’s topic is domestic policy. As each candidate prepares for this campaign milestone, Twitter brings you closer: Gov and Senator Portman stop by Chipotle for lunch. … [Read more...]
Building and maintaining trust online requires active collaboration between teams across a company ranging from policy to engineering to operations. And services like Twitter, whose platform is built on user trust, must work with security companies and many other organizations that help bring trust to the Internet’s distributed architecture to agree upon policies and build mechanisms that enable a safe online experience for everyone. … [Read more...]
As we welcome the first few weeks of fall, we also continue to welcome TV’s hottest premieres on Twitter. Last week we introduced a live-tweeting cast of shows, actors and even characters, and this week we’re adding to the cast as networks roll-out a new set of premieres. … [Read more...]