Twitter plans to open a "global centre of excellence" in Canada. The social networking company plans to house the centre in Vancouver, according to job ads on its site, which suggest Twitter is seeking computer science graduates "to work on some of the most interesting technical challenges in the industry today." "We...
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Vancouver-based Trainerize, a training platform for fitness professionals, today added five app partners to its new Add-on Directory.
For those in tech circles, these words have always been legitimate.
Last week, Shaw Media broke the news that they will be joining up with Twitter to co-sell advertising. Twitter is developing their new Amplify program for clients and users who want a unified process for advertising on television and on mobile devices also known as the “second screen.”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo needed more than 140 characters on May 29 to discuss his coming of age product at the D11 conference. Since October 2010, Costolo had been at the helm for the online social networking service.
I have approximately 6,900 followers on Twitter.
One in three Canadians check their social media feeds daily, accrording to a recent report from the Media Technology Monitor.
More than two thirds of Canadians who use the internet are regular social media users, the report says, up six percent from 2011. And nearly two thirds of social media users in Canada check their feeds daily.
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CBC vice president Kirstine Stewart has left the public broadcaster unexpectedly to head up Twitter Canada, which does not exist yet but will soon.
On Thursday, March 28, the Yaletown Roundhouse community center was host to the first Vancouver Social Media Awards. The first year of any awards show is always an event to behold: precedents are set that future years will either reinforce or subvert, and what was deemed acceptable that night will be the reference point for years to come.
User-generated content drives a lot of new products in today’s tech industry.
A unique new program has been developed that aims to allow Twitter users to continue tweeting long after they're dead.
Your Twitter feed is about to get a lot more obnoxious thanks to a new feature added to the social network today: support for line breaks.
Today, two of the world's biggest social networks updated their apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform.
Twitter and LinkedIn, which appear on the BB10 homescreen as default apps, both added new features and improved existing features.
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You can now buy a box of cereal with a tweet. Welcome to 2013.
Last night, Target Canada threw its first Twitter Party for Canadians during the 85th annual Oscars, winning Twitter nationwide in the process.
As one of Twitter’s initial Ads API partners, Vancouver-based HootSuite Media today launched a new Promoted Products integration with the social network.
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