Articles tagged:twitter

Posted: Wed Oct 19 10:57 a.m. by Nick Baumgardner Sports Reporter
Love Michigan basketball? Want to tweet about it?

Calling all Tweeps. The Michigan men's basketball team is in search of a Twitter expert capable of becoming the "voice" of Michigan basketball.

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Posted: Tue Jul 5 8 a.m. by Mary Bilyeu AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
Celebrate your own pie party with Brownie Ice Cream Pie

Some things in life are serendipitous, and others can be a bit of a challenge. I had thought that I was going to make some chocolate cookies on Sunday morning, then fill them with ice cream to make sandwiches... however, my plan went pretty far awry! A good friend had ...

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Posted: Tue Jun 14 2:35 p.m. by Events Admin AnnArbor.com
Posted: Sat May 21 5:56 a.m. by Kyle Feldscher Crime and courts reporter
Ann Arbor schools cut off wireless access for students using their own smart phones, other devices

Ann Arbor schools will no longer offer open wireless access for privately owned devices like computers, iPods and smart phones, district officials announced Friday. District spokesperson Liz Margolis said public wireless access was eliminated because the drastic increase in personal devices not directly involved in education had overloaded the network, ...

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Posted: Mon Feb 7 9:50 a.m. by Melissa LR Handa Community Contributor
Use Twitter to promote yourself as a writer: 10 tips for making the most of your experience

For more tips about writing and how you can use social media to further your writerly platform, click here.Ahh, Twitter — it’s a wonderful, powerful thing, which is immensely confusing when you first get started. Every writer, rather published or not, should be on Twitter, and simply being present at ...

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Posted: Fri Oct 15 11:56 a.m. by Events Admin AnnArbor.com
Posted: Fri Sep 24 11:45 a.m. by Julia Eussen Community Contributor
Jonathan Weiner questions immortality in his new book

On Wednesday evening Jonathan Weiner discussed his new book, "Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality." The discussion was part of the University of Michigan's Author's Forum. The College of Literature, Science and the Arts has selected "What makes life worth living?" as its theme for this Fall ...

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Posted: Tue May 18 1:43 p.m. by Ryan J. Stanton Political Reporter

Michigan gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder joins Twitter world as OneToughNerd

Rick Snyder's campaign announced on Facebook and Twitter today that the Michigan governor hopeful from Ann Arbor has created a personal Twitter account with the username OneToughNerd.

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Posted: Thu May 6 10:45 a.m. by Edward Vielmetti
Searching Twitter for Ann Arbor news, farmers markets and morels

Twitter is a popular short messaging service that was was used to let University of Michigan graduates put a message up on the big screen at Michigan Stadium from their mobile phones during commencement last weekend. Twitter gets regular use for all kinds of much less grand things; the typical ...

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Posted: Thu Apr 8 11:15 a.m. by Edward Vielmetti
What the hashtag?! Following current and local events on Twitter

Twitter is a worldwide short message communications network. It's sent out over a billion messages, ranging in complexity and interestingness upward from "I'm eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich nom nom."Â Some small fraction of the traffic across the network is news, either news processed and produced by news ...

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Posted: Thu Jan 28 5 p.m. by Nathan Bomey Business news director
@John_Dingell, welcome to Twitter

When U.S Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan, joined Congress in 1955, social media tool Twitter was ........ a long way off.

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Posted: Wed Sep 9 11:40 a.m. by Tony Dearing AnnArbor.com

We're a Web site with an intensely local mission. But part of being local is listening to the community, and one thing you've told us is that when it comes to sports coverage, you're very interested in Detroit sports teams. So beginning today, we've added coverage of Detroit Tigers baseball ...

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Posted: Wed Sep 9 11:20 a.m. by Nathan Bomey Business news director

The chief executive of Duke Energy, one of the nation's largest utility companies, will speak at an energy conference next week at the University of Michigan. Jim Rogers, CEO of North Carolina-based Duke Energy, will address the Ross Energy Club's second annual Carbon Symposium on Sept. 18. The Ross Energy ...

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Posted: Fri Aug 14 8:25 a.m. by Amalie Nash AnnArbor.com News Director

Three Ypsilanti teenagers are accused of punching a resident adviser and attempting to rob him outside a dorm on Eastern Michigan University's campus Thursday night. The teens were arrested a short time later.

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Posted: Wed Aug 5 9:13 a.m. by Kyle Stuef Community Contributor
Revising (and revisiting) your digital brand

For the past year or so, I have been known as @2911Kyle (for those in the Twitter community) or Kyle from TWENTY-NINE 11 STUDIOS. Personally and professionally, I have been associated first with the company for which I've worked when I meet someone in the community. That is all about ...

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