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Today,Politco reportsthat Twitter has hired telecom policy veteran Colin Crowell as its new Head of Global Public Policy. Crowell is the 2nd employee on Twitter’s 2-person D.C. team, which includes C-SPAN’s Adam Sharp. The two will work to expand Twitter’s functional role in Washington as policymakers and politicians learn to use its tools and social media’s presence grows in government life. WithObama now tweeting, theWhite House holding tweetupsand the upcoming 2012 election, it makes sense that Twitter needs an active team in Washington....

Ever since we saw the first t.co links appear some time ago, we’ve longed for automatic link shortening on Twitter.com and nowwe have it. Just paste a link of any length into the Tweet box on Twitter.com. After you’ve composed your Tweet and you hit the “Tweet” button, we’ll shorten the link so that it only takes up 19 characters. This should work right in tune with what Twitter does with any external link, where the added security of being vetted through Twitter’s system will help to keep users safe....

Just a couple of months after the Gay Girl in Damascushoax, it seems that the Middle Eastern twitosphere is once again investigating an impersonator claiming to be an Arab woman. While Tom McMaster may have had what he believed to be noble intentions, there appears to be nothing noble about this latest story. The person in question is known as Liliane Khalil, a supposed Atlanta-based journalist of Palestinian and Armenian heritage who was writing for theBahrain Independent, a newspaper who’s site has been inmaintenancefor over a week now, as well as a brief stint writing for the Cairo-based news siteBikya Masr....

In a new infographic released bySimply Measured, a tool that aggregates social media data with “beautiful reports in Excel”, 7,484 Tweets with “F8” were shot into the web in the five minute period after Timeline was first announced. “Timeline” and “Zuckerberg” appear to be the main keywords of interest, which makes sense when considering the fact thatTimelines are the most drastic visual change we’ll be seeing on Facebook. In fact, the Timeline is the key ingredient in altering the entire user experience for consumers across the board, and is meant to take over our every Facebook wall as it continues to roll out over all user profiles....

Twitter’s into NFTs now. But that’s not surprising given the CEO Jack Dorsey is super interested in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. But the firm’s not trying to making money from NFTs yet. It’s simply giving away 140 of them for free. Twitter posted seven tweets yesterday showing off these pieces of digital art — so 20 copies of each are going for no cost. 140 free NFTs for 140 of you, bestiespic....