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Twitter’s trialling a new “Embedded on these websites” notification system, which shows a list of articles that appear in popular tweets. That means you can quickly see the sources lurking behind a post—which is kinda neat.

Explore Twitter’s Hidden Landscape In These Gorgeous Interactive Maps

Twitter never tires of finding clever new ways to show off its mountains of tweets, it’s going literal with actual mountains of tweets. Twitter’s in-house data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte put together these new, interactive, topographical maps of tweet history, and the result is a digital mountain range like you’ve never seen. Drawing from the…

These Awesome Maps Show Off All the World’s Geo-Tagged Tweets

There’s only so many place you can tweet from, and Twitter’s been diligently indexing them all. These new visualizations from the Twitter team show the history of all geo-tagged tweets since 2009 (when the feature was born) by location. We’re talking billions of them. We’ve seen this sort of thing before, whether it’s Twitter and…

Surprising No One, Twitter Is An Arrested Development Explosion

The Netflix-only fourth season of Arrested Development went live at 3 a.m. EST this morning, and if you didn’t see the Twitter deluge coming, well, you’re one of these people: But you’re probably one of these people: Or you actually have to get sleep in order to work: So you hate this person: Or perhaps…

Watch How Retweets Ripple Out Through the Internet

A quick tweet can blast through Twitter like wildfire. All it takes is a click of a button and anyone can help push that 140 character shout just a little further through cyberspace, until everybody knows. This is what it looks like when that happens. “Where Does My Tweet Go” is a neat little Twitter…

Bloomberg’s terminals—used by 90,000+ sites and social media channels—will start integrating finance-oriented tweets.

Mean Tweeters Have Forced Incoherent Senator Chuck Grassley To Make His Tweets Boring and/or Sane

You may have noticed a certain indescribable gaping hole on Twitter over the past few months, and you’re not alone. BuzzFeed hunted down the root of the problem to Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s uncharacteristically coherent, and no longer seemingly-fever-dream-induced recent tweets. https://gizmodo.com/senator-chuck-grassley-is-the-worst-twitter-user-in-the-5796338 Now, Twitter’s poet laureate came to fame in a way most unusual for…

Mathematically, How Many Different Tweets Could There Ever Be?

There’s only so much you can say in 140 paltry characters. So how many possible different tweets are there that could ever be sent? Randall Munroe has tackled that very question in today’s wonderful What If? post. First, a very crude approximation: Tweets are 140 characters long. There are 26 letters in English-27 if you…

The Happiest and Saddest Places in the Country as Told by Your Tweets

Louisiana residents probably won’t be too pleased to hear the following news, which, for them, won’t really be a change of pace at all. According to a team at the very not-real-sounding Vermont Complex Systems Center and based on what is surely a totally objective and not at all arbitrary analysis of tweets, Louisiana is…

Knowing the Real Life Location of These Tweets Makes You Feel Dirty

Twitter is modern day people watching. Anytime you check it, you see what a person is thinking or doing or saying. But it’s not all happening in a digital vacuum, they’re on break at work tweeting about their boss, they’re outside a hospital tweeting about their day, they’re somewhere tweeting about something. This photo project,…

The Library of Congress Can’t Quite Handle That Massive Tweet Archive It Was Trying to Build

A few years ago, the Library of Congress announced its plans to create an archive of every public tweet ever. If you thought that sounded a little bit optimistic, you’d be right; the Library of Congress released a white paper today explaining why they can’t quite pull it off. https://gizmodo.com/your-past-and-future-tweets-will-be-archived-at-the-lib-5517180 It’s not all bad. The…

What Was Your Most Embarrassing Tweet?

By now, you’ve probably heard that Twitter’s rolling out the option to download your entire archive of tweets. And, hey, that sounds like great news! https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-to-download-all-your-tweets-ever-5969755 Hold on, Narcissus. Let’s think about it. Twitter’s already been around for 6 years. That’s Methuselah in Internet years and more than enough time to have collected all sorts…

Here Are Some Ancient Tech Tweets From Twitter’s Infancy

Twitter is such an everyday part of daily life and tech news that it’s kind of hard to imagine what it was like way back in its infancy. Fortunately you don’t have to; Buzzfeed dug up some ancient nuggets from the “tech elite” for your perusal. There are plenty more to check out over at…

You can email tweets directly from Twitter.com now, for easier sharing with non-Twitter friends. They’ll be… thrilled?

The Average Twitter User Is a 28-Year-Old Female with an iPhone That Loves the Color Purple

Here are the stats on the average Twitter user: she’s a 28 years old American girl who has an iPhone, has 208 Twitter followers while following 102 people, tweets a lot about fashion and family, likes the color purple and uses “love” quite frequently in her Tweets. Did I just describe someone you know? Beevolve,…

Twitter Is Finally Going To Let You Download All Your Old Tweets

Maybe you tweet mostly about lunch, or other seemingly inane things, but your Twitter stream forms something of a journal for most users. It is a micro-blog, after all. Now, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is saying you’ll be able to download all your past tweets by the end of the year. For the moment you…

The Worst Tweets From the First Year of Twitter

I hardly remember 2006. You probably don’t either. But that’s when Twitter first started! And looking back how we tweeted that fateful first year, it’s probably better that none of us remember it. Just check out how awful everyone was at it: We used the search engine oldtweets, a service that cleverly only searches the…

Where the World’s Tweets Come From, Visualized

If you’ve ever wondered where all the world’s tweets come from, wonder no more. This visualization, put together by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, shows the origins of the entire globe’s tweets. The data set comprises a sample of 20 percent of the planet’s geocoded tweets taken during a week-long period in March of…

Childless Couple Turns to Twitter to Spread Story of Struggle to Adopt

Rick and Erica Jones have been trying to adopt a baby for the past three years. Unfortunately for the Michigan couple, their adoption agency (Morningstar Adoption Center) doesn’t have the means to market their clients—nor do the Jones’s have the enough money to pay for the services of a larger, more successful adoption agency. To…

Senator Chuck Grassley Dishes on Why He Sucks at Twitter

Since November 26th, 2007, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has unleashed 1830 tweets worth of frequently incomprehensible, crazy/beautiful Twitterness. Are his tweets 140-character poetry, a Joycean prank, or merely the handiwork of aging fingers on a touchscreen? In an interview with BLT, Senator Grassley explains all—sort of. https://gizmodo.com/senator-chuck-grassley-is-the-worst-twitter-user-in-the-5796338 So what do we learn about Sen. Grassley’s…