Twitter implemented changes to its integration with third-party applications Wednesday that give users more control over the information shared with those apps, highlighted by a detailed permissions screen that will appear when another app attempts to access Twitter.
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Twitter continued to look back on 2010 (even though 17 days still remain), following up Monday’s announcement of the top 10 Twitter trends of the year with its list of 2010′s 10 Most Powerful Tweets, announced Tuesday. The list:
1: Ann Curry, @AnnCurry: @usairforce find a way to let Doctors without Borders planes land in Haiti: http://bit.ly/8hYZOK THE most effective at this.
2: The White House, @whitehouse: Welcome to @twitter President Medvedev! RT @KremlinRussia_E: Hello everyone! I’m on Twitter, and this is my first tweet.
3: Leigh Fazzina, @LeighFazzina: I’ve had a serious injury and NEED Help! Can somone please call Winding Trails in Farmington, CT tell them I’m stuck bike crash in woods.
4: BP Public Relations, @BPGlobalPR: Catastrophe is a strong word, let’s all agree to call it a whoopsie daisy.
5: Presidencia Ecuador, @Presidencia_Ec: Gobierno declara estado de Excepción #Ecuador #30S
6: Clarence House, @ClarenceHouse: The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton – www.princeofwales.gov.uk
7: Jonathan Schwartz, @OpenJonathan: Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more
8: John M. Foster, @foster208: Congratulations to Raul Labrador on a hard-earned win, and best of luck as Idaho’s next Congressman.
9: Carles Puyol, @Carles5puyol: Gran ambiente en la rua!!orgulloso de ver a tanta gente feliz. http://twitpic.com/24qkg5
10: Conan O’Brien, @ConanOBrien: Hey Internet: I’m headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to http://TeamCoco.com for tix. I repeat: It’s half-assed.
Twitter announced content partnerships with blip.tv, Instagram, Rdio, SlideShare, and Dipdive, as announced in a post on the Twitter Blog by Jodi Olson of its corporate-communications team. Highlights:
We’re on a mission to give you more great multimedia content on Twitter, and today we’re adding five new companies to bring you independent TV shows, photos, works of art, slide presentations, and entire songs, all right inside the details pane. Twitter users can access embedded media from more than 20 partners in total, including these new companies:
blip.tv: Watch more than 50,000 independently-produced Web TV shows.
Instagram: View mobile photos, personalized with Instagram’s colorful filters.
Rdio: When a subscriber Tweets out a song, you can listen to full-length songs right inside the details pane, for the first time ever.
SlideShare: Read and share entire presentations, directly on Twitter.
Dipdive: See photos, videos and new works from Dipdive’s community of artists.
In the next few months, we’ll integrate with more content partners. For Twitter users, this means that 140 characters can contain a world of multimedia content, and instantly connect you to video, photo, music, and media services all across the Web.
