I'm Peter Wade. Formerly of The @Daily

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Teens Are Turning Away from Facebook Because Tumblr Is Real, and Parent-Free →

Teenagers really are over Facebook. In a deep report published on Tuesday, Pew Research explains that teenagers departing the social network’s blue confines are looking for something more… authentic. Which, ironically, was the initial draw of Facebook, and has become something of a calling card for Tumblr and Twitter. Somewhere, Marissa Mayer is smiling.

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A third of Tumblr’s active users come from households with incomes above $100,000 per year, giving it higher income skew than Facebook or Twitter, according to Comscore, the Web analytics firm.
Yahoo Tumblr Acquisition: It’s About Young People With Money
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Yahoo is looking to the future here, and tying the entire life of their company to a bunch of pubescent girl bloggers was the smart move.
Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs - The Onion
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Tumblr. - The Documentary 

(June 16, 2008)

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[A]nyone using social media sites — and especially Twitter — ‘has lost this world and his afterlife.’

Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has warned citizens against using Twitter.

Read: NPR

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So here is what works. Retweet the hater’s tweet, appending the phrase “I love your passion,” or some variation. This may seem counterintuitive. After all, the hater has just insulted you and you respond with a compliment. But “I love your passion” is no compliment at all. It’s what you hear from someone who is about to disappoint you. It’s what you hear when you don’t get the job.
Dear Twitter Haters: I, Eli Lake, Love Your Passion - The Daily Beast
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Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies - Poynter's News University →
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Read: These brands are failing at Twitter. - Digiday

Read: These brands are failing at Twitter. - Digiday

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Think Facebook’s your biggest productivity killer in the office? Think again. Social network-obsessed employees just might be your highest performers. A recent survey by the data analytics firm Evolv suggests that employees who use up to four social media networks are exceptionally productive—and they stay in their jobs longer, too.
Social Media: Not the Productivity Killer You Thought? | Inc.com
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The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013 - TIME.com →

The Internet and immediacy. A 2013 best-of list in March.

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Sohaib Athar live tweeted the raid that resulted in Osama Bin Landen death, by accident.  via 12 Insanely Epic Tweets - Business Insider

Sohaib Athar live tweeted the raid that resulted in Osama Bin Landen death, by accident. 

via 12 Insanely Epic Tweets - Business Insider

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Twitter turns 7, releases its greatest hits video. - @MeenaGanesan

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What Twitter looked like seven years ago today. @EliLanger

What Twitter looked like seven years ago today.

@EliLanger

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Reuters' Matthew Keys indicted for conspiring with hacker group 'Anonymous' - Politico →

Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, has been charged in an indictment for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group “Anonymous” to hack into a Tribune Company website, the Justice Department announced today.

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It’s just using it as an announcement system, like you used to listen to in class: ‘The cafeteria will be serving roast beef, and I will be at this place or that place.’ But that’s not interaction, that’s not collaboration.
Tech-savvy Newark Mayor Cory Booker: Government flunking social media - Reuters
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