Despite the differences between highly active tweeters and those who are less active, other instances show these active users differ only modestly — or not at all — from the rest of the Twitter population. Although prolific tweeters report tweeting about politics with great regularity, their overall partisanship is not out of sync with other Twitter users. Say "Alexa, enable the Pew Research Center flash briefing". It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values.
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The reason Twitter imposes a character limit on tweets is that Twitter was originally designed as an SMS-based platform. In its early days, characters were the limit that mobile carriers imposed with SMS protocol standard so Twitter was simply creatively constrained. As Twitter eventually grew into a web platform, the character limit remained as a matter of branding.
In , however, Twitter decided that the character limit was no longer relevant in the smartphone age and it increased the tweet limit to characters over minor protestations. Most tweets, the company explained, hover around 50 characters; when people needed more characters, they simply sent more tweets.
The character increase was designed to help Twitter users spend less time condensing their thoughts and more time talking. As Twitter's user base started growing, a funny thing started to happen: Users created new jargon and different ways to use the service. Think of it as innovation borne of necessity. Initially, users had no way of replying to one another on Twitter. Some users would include an symbol before a username to identify another user within a Tweet.
This became such a prevalent way to acknowledge another user that the Twitter team added the functionality natively to the Twitter platform. The same thing happened with hashtags , which are now an integral part of the Twitter ecosystem. This user-driven functionality is also the source of retweets. Users wanted a way to re-post a message from a Twitter user while including credit to the user who originally tweeted it.
Users started to add RT before sending the message , signaling to their followers that the following tweet was a report. In August , this functionality was officially added to the platform. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. One existing possibility is ActivityPub, the protocol used by Mastodon and many other services.
Mastodon and Bitcoin take two different approaches to decentralization. Like email, Mastodon is "federated. It sends it to and from email servers. Likewise, anyone can host a Mastodon server and talk to people on other Mastodon servers.
But those servers still play a crucial role in storing and routing those messages. Bitcoin is "distributed," much like a peer-to-peer file sharing service. People on the Bitcoin network use Bitcoin software to connect directly with other Bitcoin users.
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The unmanned spacecraft Mariner 4 passes over Mars at an altitude of 6, feet and sends back to Earth the first close-up images of the red planet. Launched in November , Mariner 4 carried a television camera and six other science instruments to study Mars and interplanetary Zebulon Pike, the U. Army officer who in led an exploring party in search of the source of the Mississippi River, sets off with a new expedition to explore the American Southwest.
Pike was instructed to seek out headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers and to investigate Spree killer Andrew Cunanan murders world-renowned Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace on the steps outside his Miami mansion.
Versace is shot twice in the head, and Cunanan flees the scene. Cunanan had no criminal record before the spring of , when he began a killing
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