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Just launched on Christmas Eve - Merry Meow-mas! Catmoji is the brainchild of Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo Wan Koe. "We want to be Facebook for cats," the Penang-based programmers told Betabeat. But you won't think of Facebook first when you see the design. Cat-erest, anyone? 
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We tweet this story not for the content, but for the headline. Headlines like this became more and more common in 2012. Celebrities, politicians, business leaders and just regular folk more often than not hit up the micro-blogging platform to make big announcements.
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A pair of updates to Facebook's messaging feature is sure to ignite controversy over the holidays. While the improved filtering Facebook has...
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Some say that breaking bad news on Facebook helps both sufferers and their friends, while others find it an inappropriate way to reveal events like divorces.
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It's not just you. The social network experienced a major outage on Monday. In an unrelated occurrence, Google's Gmail service also went down on Monday for approximately 40 minutes.
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Facebook has created couples profile pages on behalf of all those listed as "in relationships" on the site. It’s cringeworthy and far too interventionist, writes Emma Barnett. Caveat: It can only create this page for you and your beloved if you list each other as who you are "in a relationship" with or "married" to. If you've simply identified yourself as "in a relationship", "married", or the oddly curious "it's complicated" -- you're safe (for now).
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From the Big Bird memes to the animated GIFs of the candidates to the non-stop Invisible Obama jokes, the 2012 Election as a whole has been one of the most shared and commented-on events in social media history.
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A new study from Counsel & Heal suggests maintaining a Twitter account makes college students more engaged in coursework and yields higher grades.
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In the thousands of words spoken in Tuesday's presidential debate, it was four awkwardly phrased ones that set the Internet afire: "Binders full of women."
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On Pinterest, followers can choose from the wisdom of Shakespeare — or Elizabeth Taylor. These pop-philosophy quotes, like "Keep calm and carry on" or “Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together," serve as a form of group therapy on Pinterest. They have become so popular that a Quotes category was spun off in July, and now accounts for about 10 percent of Pinterest’s traffic,
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I've just had a few weeks away from my desk and laptop and daily routine of tracking what people are talking about online only to return this week and wonder, did anybody even know I was gone? In an era of breaking us down into percentages - 99%, 47%, 8% (that last figure is the percentage of adults who use Twitter on a daily basis) - and obsessively counting followers, connections, "friends", page views and hits it's easy to get caught up in "your" numbers and start wondering what - if anything - do they mean? And even, if they matter.
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Facebook began eliminating fake likes on brand pages Wednesday, after pledging to ramp up security last month.
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While you were sleeping? Google's social network Google+ has more than 400 million members. But note, just 100 million of them are active users.
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Think you have a pretty good idea of what's coming next in tech? Then you probably haven't talked to a teen recently. - What's what with Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, IMs and SnapChat.
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Randi Zuckerberg, older sister to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former marketing director-turned-reality TV producer, let a tender Zuckerberg family moment shared between friends slip out into the Internet the other day.
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Instagram users have been complaining about Facebook’s plan to build advertising into the service and potentially sell users' photos. In response, the company said it would make changes to the plan.
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Barely a day after Instagram cut Twitter off from its photo feed, Twitter has announced on its blog that its photo filter feature is up and running.
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Fake accounts and fraudulent “likes” are an especially acute problem for Facebook as it has sought to distinguish itself as a place for real identity on the Web.
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Often the people who friend or like others on Facebook aren't friends at all. According to the Washington Post, Mitt Romney lost nearly 593 Facebook friends between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning. The losses are happening so quickly, the drop in numbers can actually be watched.
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An American Apparel ad for a "Hurricane Sandy Sale" has sparked backlash from the Twittersphere.
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The medium has allowed Saudis - both men and women - to cross social boundaries and collectively address delicate subjects in real time.
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Facebook is now home to one billion digital denizens. This quote by founder Mark Zuckerberg really captures the spirit of Facebook’s mission, “We live at a moment when the majority of people in the world have access to the internet or mobile phones — the raw tools necessary to start sharing what they’re thinking, feeling and doing with whomever they want..” Think about it.
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Filmmaker Casey Neistat loves Instagram. He loves it so much he made this YouTube video to tell you why. And he offers up, in plain sight, some tips for what Instagram really is and how to use it. Think of your yellowing photo albums circa the mid-1980s. Now think of those albums on someone else's smart phone. Get it?
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This week as reported by TechCrunch, Facebook users have been hearing rumors that private messages - written in 2009 and earlier - were showing up on public timelines. Facebook investigated the claims and found them to be false and technically impossible to be true. But users are scrolling down their timelines and revisiting old posts on their timelines...and getting nervous. Why? Out of context, these public messages seem private.
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Twitter might be considering a replacement metric for follower count that more accurately measures how influential users are.
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