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Apple News Gains Twitter Account to Promote Content

I for one love the News app and its my third most used after Safari and Mail. I like how I can have continually updated news feeds throughout the day that are relevant to me. Plus with the 9.3 update I was able to access more sources than the big names. Overall it has been a great way for me to stay informed on current events!
 
Meh....though out there are people who will benefit from this .
 
DaJoNel said:
I don't know about you, but "curated news" just sounds like censorship.
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Orwell called it Newspeak.
In this case it's especially ironic.

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the one thing we were really waiting for was more twitter spam - yay!
Btw. what happened to actual Mac hardware updates? you know for people who actually need to get work done, ... ?!?!
 
ksnell said:
Doesn't that defeat the purpose? I thought the app was supposed to keep you from going to other places for news?
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Notifications.
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myestro1111 said:
Yeah, just like Facebook News. Sorry, I'll stick with Drudge.
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With Apple News I don't accidentally get click baited into an InfoWars or PrisonPlanet link, so there's that.

Edit: and let's not forget that Apple News doesn't refresh the page every 15 seconds for a new ad impression and page view increment, gotta love not even finishing a scan of the headlines before the page is flashed on you.
 
BJMRamage said:
I had stopped using Flipboard for a while, when Apple News came out, I tried it...and then started using Flipboard again.

it was a great ad for Flipboard
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Yeah, the people at Flipboard can sleep easily once again. When it comes to services, Apple continues to fall short of our overinflated expectations.
 
So here's a funny thing. This Twitter account, @applenews, was actually mine. Until sometime last year.

I registered it sometime around 2007 when Twitter first came out and used it to post stuff relating to Apple when there wasn't really anyone doing that. I'm not a journalist and didn't really know what I was doing, kind of just playing around. Nobody cared.

I hardly used it for years. Every now and again I would post something.

Then a few weeks ago I tried to log in and found the password didn't work. I went through the password recovery process and the account was linked to a different email, that wasn't mine. Contacted Twitter but didn't get anywhere.

What's kind of interesting is that all my tweets from back in 2007 have been erased and if I do an advanced search in the Twitter archive nothing shows up from then.

I don't really mind about all this. But it would be nice if someone could have been polite and asked me. I have loads of notifications from Twitter for this account in Gmail. No record of an email saying they were going to reclaim the account.
 
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thesheep said:
So here's a funny thing. This Twitter account, @applenews, was actually mine. Until sometime last year.

I registered it sometime around 2007 when Twitter first came out and used it to post stuff relating to Apple when there wasn't really anyone doing that. I'm not a journalist and didn't really know what I was doing, kind of just playing around. Nobody cared.

I hardly used it for years. Every now and again I would post something.

Then a few weeks ago I tried to log in and found the password didn't work. I went through the password recovery process and the account was linked to a different email, that wasn't mine. Contacted Twitter but didn't get anywhere.

What's kind of interesting is that all my tweets from back in 2007 have been erased and if I do an advanced search in the Twitter archive nothing shows up from then.

I don't really mind about all this. But it would be nice if someone could have been polite and asked me. I have loads of notifications from Twitter for this account in Gmail. No record of an email saying they were going to reclaim the account.
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Wow, that's pretty appalling.
 
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"6 Landmarks that almost weren't"?????????????????? Is that what Apple News is about??? No thanks, I get those types from annoying pages in Facebook!

Up next: "The shocking truth about cats!"
 
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Weaselboy said:
https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation

I'm guessing Apple used the process at this web page to take that account from you. I found an article here that runs it down and it does not look like Twitter even contacts the account owner. Odd process.
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Interesting, thanks for those links.

I wasn't impersonating Apple, in that I was clearly tweeting personal views about Apple products. And I was in no way claiming to be Apple. However, I did have an image of the Apple logo as the profile picture, which might have not been very smart. I still think it isn't right to confiscate an account without sending some kind of notification or explanation.
 
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thesheep said:
Interesting, thanks for those links.

I wasn't impersonating Apple, in that I was clearly tweeting personal views about Apple products. And I was in no way claiming to be Apple. However, I did have an image of the Apple logo as the profile picture, which might have not been very smart. I still think it isn't right to confiscate an account without sending some kind of notification or explanation.
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Yeah... I agree with you. It would be nice to at least get a chance to defend yourself. I'm wondering if they (Apple) were able to win the argument simply by saying using the word Apple in the name makes it appear as if it is an official Apple Twitter account.
 
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