Twitter is cracking down on stolen jokes

Joke thieves beware: Twitter seems to be cracking down on plagiarism.

In a freewheeling universe home to millions of spambots, fake celebrities and trolls, it's no surprise that many Twitter accounts habitually crib popular 140-character quips to rack up followers. But Twitter now seems to be using copyright rules to police this comedic fraud

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The social network is erasing and hiding a number of tweets reported as stolen and referring to the original poster as the "copyright holder," as first spotted by the account @plagiarismbad. Read more...

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82% of Managers Aren't Cut Out For the Job: Do You Have What It Takes?

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Struggling to get along with your manager? It's probably not you. There's a good chance your boss should never have been promoted in the first place.

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#Curvy forced Instagram to rethink how it polices hashtags

Curvy girls are no longer banned from Instagram, thanks to new technology implemented by the social media platform.

After the hashtag "curvy" was banned earlier this month from being searched on the site, Instagram is using new, automated systems designed to keep the hashtag "clean" of porn and nudity, a spokesperson told Mashable.

"We’re unblocking it, but we are also unblocking it in ways so the content's going to be able to stay clean on the hashtag," he said.

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The same technology, when needed, was previously implemented on trending hashtags to make sure they were free of nudity, porn, hate speech and other "bad" content, the spokesperson said. Read more...

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Confessions of a Jaded Conference Attendee: 5 Things I Loved About INBOUND

 Remember your very first conference?

You carefully deliberated over every single session in the weeks leading up to it, bought a special outfit, and got a thrill when you finally arrived and saw your name covered in plastic.

“My very own name tag? I’ll save this forever!”

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12 About Us Page Examples That Are Probably Better Than Yours

When you’re building a website, it’s tempting to get distracted by all the bells and whistles of the design process and forget all about creating compelling content. But having awesome content on your website is crucial to making inbound marketing work for your business.

So how do you balance your remarkable content creation with your web design needs? Why, with your 'About Us' page, of course! For a remarkable about page, all you need to do is figure out your company's unique identity, and then share it with the world.

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13 Productivity Tips for the Busy Professional [Infographic]

We’ve all been there. It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday. You desperately want to start your weekend … but you have that incredibly important project you still need to finish up. You think back on the week: What could you have done differently to get your work done and leave at a decent hour of the day?

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Twitter teases new updates ahead of its second Flight developer conference

Twitter is gearing up for its second developers conference.

The Flight conference will take place Oct. 21 in San Francisco, Twitter announced Wednesday, promising a suite of so far unannounced updates expected to be revealed at the event.

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"We’ve only shown a fraction of what we’re working on publicly," Prashant Sridharan, the company's global director of developer and platform relations, wrote in a blog post.

While we don't know exactly what will be announced at this year's Flight conference, the company says it will add more updates to its Fabric developer platform, which was first revealed during last year's event. Fabric offers developers a suite of tools that help integrate Twitter more closely into their apps while providing tools for ad management and analytics. Read more...

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