Mediagazer: Twitter Gets Experimental — And Not Everyone Loves It (Mike Isaac/AllThingsD)

1:30 AM ET, November 20, 2013

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Gets Experimental — And Not Everyone Loves It — Part of any tech company's usual rigamarole is testing changes to its products. It gives valuable insight into what your users like and — more importantly — what they don't. — Case in point: Twitter has amped up its product testing lately …

Esteban Kozak / Twitter blog:

New ways to search on Twitter — We're updating our iOS and Android apps to make it easier to discover what's happening on Twitter. — New filters in search help you quickly find exactly the Tweets and people you're looking for. And now you have the option to view all Tweets …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Mashable, The Next Web, App Advice, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Land and MacRumors

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Twitter backtracks and removes option to let users receive direct messages from any follower

Discussion: Gigaom, PRNewser, Mashable, Softpedia News, Yahoo! News, WebProNews, The Verge, Fast Company, The Drum, CNET, @bryandfischer, @chrchristensen, @djbentley, @antderosa, @chrisboutet, @mattbuchanan, Electronista, Engadget, ReadWrite and @jimpoco

Felix Salmon:

The evolution of Bloomberg News — Yesterday was a big day for layoffs over at Bloomberg, and Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke has the official memo from editor-in-chief Matt Winkler. In typical Bloomberg style, the defenestrations seem to be taking place in much the same way as they would on Wall Street …

Discussion: Talking Biz News, @pawelmorski, @jkbloodtreasure, @michaelroston, @comradewong, @preetatweets, Gannett Blog, @eisingerj, @joepompeo, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi and The New York Observer

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Fear And Anxiety At Bloomberg TV

Discussion: @mlcalderone

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Michael Forsythe out at Bloomberg News

Discussion: Poynter, Sinosphere, Jack Shafer, The Huffington Post and Business Insider

Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog:
What Will It Cost to Cover China?

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New Yorker, Kirk LaPointe's …, @timkarr, @suilee, @colvinius, @sarabethberman, @madhulikasikka, @newyorker and New York Times

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Winkler's note to Bloomberg staff: We will grow in 2014

Discussion: FishbowlDC

New York Times:

Murdoch Divorce Said to Be Almost Final — Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng Murdoch are negotiating the final details of their divorce settlement, a deal that will officially end the 14-year marriage of the media mogul and his third wife, according to people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, @michaelwolffnyc, @michaelwolffnyc and Variety

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

The rise of Brown Moses: How an unemployed British man has become a poster boy for citizen journalism — We've written many times about how social media and what Om likes to call the “democratization of distribution” have changed the way that journalism works in a digital age …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @antderosa and New Yorker

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Quora Will Push Its Most Link-Baity Content to BuzzFeed (Though It Would Never Call It That) — On Quora, answers to the question “What are the most surreal places one can ever visit?” are a fantastical mix of caves and mountains and formations and reefs. The page has more than half a million views.

Discussion: The Quora Blog

Jim Romenesko:

Ted Turner: Print has a future - if it's combined with audio and video — Most of Patricia Sellers' interview with Ted Turner is behind Fortune's paywall, but the magazine sent highlights of the Q & A for posting: — Twenty years ago you were saying that print is dead. — That's true.

Discussion: Fortune and @davidfolkenflik

Erik Wemple:

FishbowlDC lawsuit: Wendy Gordon speaks out — Wendy Gordon still feels a need to set the record straight. “I'm not a lush, I don't have sexually transmitted diseases, I'm not a cougar,” she says, noting that she also doesn't plaster her images all over the Internet.

Discussion: @jfdulac, @amandahess and @abeaujon

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

‘60 Minutes’ Viewership Holds In Wake of Discredited Benghazi Story — The viewership of “60 Minutes” doesn't seem to have suffered much in the wake of the discredited report on the attack in Benghazi last month. — Since that story aired on Oct. 27, the show has averaged 14.309 million total viewers in its three airings.

Discussion: Lost Remote

New York Times:

Hollywood Studios Facing Upheaval at Highest Levels — LOS ANGELES — Advice for the power players at Hollywood's coming round of black-tie galas: Don't leave your seat to table-hop. — Your chair might be gone when you get back. — Even as the movie awards season accelerates here …

Discussion: @kennethturan, Los Angeles Times, hypebot, Deadline.com, The Wrap and Variety

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Disqus enables rich media in comments because conversations are more than just text — Disclosure: VentureBeat uses Disqus for its comment platform. — Disqus is rolling out a significant update to its online comment platform today that add videos, photos, and other forms of rich media to discussions between readers.

Discussion: The Next Web, Disqus and ReadWrite

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Music Streaming Startup Rdio Lays Off Staff To 'Improve Cost Structure And Ensure A Scalable Business" — The music streaming business can be tough, with market leaders like Spotify growing like weeds but still loss-making. Today, some bad news from competitor Rdio, the music streaming service startup …

Discussion: The Verge, Gigaom, @pkafka, @panzer, @jherskowitz and @sai