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Twitter’s Redesigned Discover Tab Is Watching You (AllTwitter) Twitter announced that it has added “improved personalization algorithms and real-time indexing.” What does this mean? Through a new Discover tab, Twitter is making search more personalized (just like Google). Let us know if you like what you see or if you have any other general impressions. PC Magazine The update is currently rolling out to Web users accessing Twitter.com, as well as those who use the Android and iOS versions of the Twitter app. The process will take weeks, Twitter said. GigaOM Recommendation services are a little like voice-recognition, in that no one notices when you get it right but everyone hates you when you get it wrong. But more than anything else, that is what Twitter has to figure out — and soon, before someone else does it better. Read more

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President Barack Obama will participate in an intimate, cozy town-hall meeting, with a small group of more than 500 million potential attendees — a special Facebook Live gathering Wednesday, April 20, at 4:45 p.m. ET/1:45 p.m. PT.

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Fortune will stream select sessions from its Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit for the first time ever.

The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit will be held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C., Oct. 4-6, and confirmed speakers include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, Demand Media chief revenue officer Joanne Bradford, former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown, MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley, Fortune senior editor Nina Easton, Fortune assistant managing editor Leigh Gallagher, TIME executive editor Nancy Gibbs, Fortune senior writer Jessi Hempel, Blip.tv co-founder Dina Kaplan, Oxygen Media founder Geraldine Laybourne, Facebook vice president for global public policy Marne Levine, Fortune senior editor at large Carol Loomis, ImpreMedia CEO Monica Lozano, Fortune executive editor Stephanie Mehta, Paley Center for Media president and CEO Patricia Mitchell, Time Inc. chairman Ann Moore, TIME Washington correspondent Jay Newton-Small, CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor and Fortune guest columnist Becky Quick, Fortune senior editor Jennifer Reingold, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, Fortune editor at large Pattie Sellers, NBC News chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman, Washington Post national political correspondent Karen Tumulty, Real Simple managing editor Kristin van Ogtrop, and Fox News Channel On the Record with Greta Van Susteren host Greta Van Susteren.

Email is going the way of the dodo, according to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Only 11% of teens use email daily, preferring instead to use SMS messaging and social networking, Sandberg proclaimed at the Nielsen Consumer 360 conference in Las Vegas.

“E-mail – I can’t imagine life without it – is probably going away,” Sandberg said.

Of course her claim prefaced a talk about the wonders of Facebook, but it is an interesting topic to consider – especially if you’re building a social-based business.

Mobile text messaging has become the preferred method for teens to communicate socially, according to a Pew Internet study. The use of social networking services such as Facebook is up there as well, but it trails good old fashioned phone calls in popularity.

Sandberg is not the first to see an end to email as we know it. Last month Google opened its Google Wave service to the public. Wave was conceived as a reinvention of email, and incorporates many chat and social elements.

However alternatives such as Wave or Facebook have failed to catch on in email’s most important arena: business. And while email may have begun more than 40 years ago and evolved into the spam-filled in-boxes we know and love today, employers don’t usually hook up their new employees with their own Facebook or Wave accounts.

Facebook’s membership soared over the past three months, CNET News reports, as the social networking giant gears up for a possible link-up with Salesforce.com on the corporate side.

Specifically, the company “grew its active membership total from 90 million in early July to 120 million now,” said Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, according to the report.

“We got more (members) in the last three months than in the first three years of our existence,” Sandberg said. Facebook has more mobile options in play than LinkedIn, the social network that’s traditionally viewed as the most enterprise-oriented among the leading services.