Twitter to let advertisers target tweeters based on interests

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Twitter Inc will begin allowing advertisers to directly target users based on the interests they reveal in their tweets, the social media company said Thursday. No longer content to be a “dumb” bulletin board, with 400 million micro-messages posted daily, Twitter has moved to a strategy of actively sifting through what each user is reading [...]

Bing adds Facebook photo search feature

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Bing added a feature Thursday that lets people search through photos friends posted on Facebook. “With more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day, photo viewing is one of the most popular things people do on Facebook,” Bing social team senior program manager Ian Lin said in a blog post. “Now, with Bing, [...]