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Jack Dorsey / @jack:
Jack Dorsey responds to #RIPTwitter, links Twitter's identity with real-time, doesn't deny an algorithmic feed but says there was no plan to launch next week — Hello Twitter! Regarding #RIPTwitter: I want you all to know we're always listening. We never planned to reorder timelines next week.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter's algorithmic timeline is like expanded version of “while you were away” feature, according to users testing it; opt-out is available — Here's how Twitter's new algorithmic timeline is going to work — Twitter went into an uproar Friday after a BuzzFeed report …
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Twitter says it has suspended 125K accounts for promoting or threatening terrorist acts since mid-2015 — Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists' Tweets — For years, Twitter has positioned itself as a “global town square” that is open to discourse from all.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
How The New York Times is experimenting with bots to let readers ask elections questions from Slack, and how it may answer with automation — The New York Times' new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers' questions straight to the newsroom — Want more election coverage right in your company's Slack?
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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Hashtags included in 45% of Super Bowl ads; Facebook or Twitter mentioned in only 5% of ads — Hashtags In Super Bowl Ads Dropped Slightly To 45% In 2016 — As with last year, social networks were rarely mentioned, with Twitter and Facebook tied in our count.
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Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
What a $5 million Super Bowl ad can buy you in digital media (tl;dr: a lot)
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Washington Post:
Inside Peyton Manning's secret investigation into Al Jazeera documentary — BROWNSBURG, Ind. — Five days before a documentary alleged that quarterback Peyton Manning and other star athletes had used performance-enhancing drugs, two men hired by Manning's lawyers visited the parents of the documentary's key witness.
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Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:
Interview with President of Hearst Newspapers Digital Rob Barrett about metro paper challenges, data journalism, social platforms and news contributors, more — New President's Focus at Hearst Digital: 'News Users Can't Get Anywhere Else' — Robertson (Rob) Barrett has occupied major posts …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Boston public radio station WBUR overhauling its site to highlight audio, integrate with NPR, and work better for mobile users — A Boston public radio station is redesigning its site to make audio “a first-class citizen online” — News analysis program On Point is one of Boston public …
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Activists say they suspect someone is impersonating arrested Iranian journalist Bahman Daroshafaei by using his Telegram account — Iran Appears To Have Taken Over an Arrested Journalist's Telegram Account — Earlier this week, Iranian authorities reportedly arrested former BBC journalist Bahman Daroshafaei.
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
LinkedIn will stop selling ads on other sites, an offering launched after its $175M purchase of Bizo in 2014 — LinkedIn Shuts Down Its Ad Network 12 Months After It Opened — Overall Ad Business Only Accounted for 21% of Q4 2015 Revenue — Sponsored Webcast
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times is unearthing unpublished photos from its archives for Black History Month — In this black and white photo taken by a New York Times staff photographer, two unidentified second graders at Princeton's Nassau Street Elementary School stand in front of a classroom blackboard.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
PayPal stops taking payments for UnoTelly VPN and SmartDNS service, saying service can be used to bypass copyright law — PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services — PayPal is widely known for their aggressive stance towards BitTorrent sites, Usenet providers and file-hosting services …
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