Mediagazer: Twitter transparency report: in the last 6 months, copyright takedown notices were up 89% to 35K, requests for account information increased 27% (Jeremy Kessel/The Twitter Blog)

1:50 PM ET, February 19, 2016

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Jeremy Kessel / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter transparency report: in the last 6 months, copyright takedown notices were up 89% to 35K, requests for account information increased 27% — Providing more #transparency into legal requests to remove content — Since our first transparency report was published in 2012 …

Discussion: Techdirt, @wexler, Twitter Transparency Report and @digiphile

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Publishers like Vice, Refinery29, Condé Nast, and Complex inflate traffic numbers by including sites they handle ad sales for but don't own — The favorite publisher trick that makes their digital audiences look bigger and younger — The pressure is on digital publishers to show …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Verizon Revamps ‘Skinny’ FiOS TV Bundles After Spats With ESPN, Others — Verizon Communications is overhauling the lower-priced FiOS Custom TV bundles, and will now offer two basic packages — one with sports channels, and one without them. — The new “skinny” TV packages, launching Sunday …

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: after launching a year ago, Sling TV now has more than 600K subscribers; Chief Executive Roger Lynch says “vast majority” are not pay-TV subscribers — Dish Network's Sling TV Has More Than 600,000 Subscribers — Hasn't been breaking out the subscribers publicly for Sling TV since launch a year ago

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