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Now playing Next USA Up or down Periscope? The phrase in many a heroic maritime movie was ‘up periscope’ a more contemporary version is Periscope app. It marks the introduction of Twitter’s 02/04/2015
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Now playing Next world news Sweet tweets as Twitter beats Wall Street revenue targets Twitter has surpassed Wall Street’s profit and revenue targets boosting shares in one of the world’s top social media services. 06/02/2015
Now playing Next Argentina #Twiplomatic fail: Internet responds to Argentine President Kirchner's gaffe It seems Argentine President Cristina Kirchner can do no right. Embroiled in a scandal at home involving the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto 05/02/2015
Now playing Next world news Facebook says hackers not to blame for temporary outages of its sites Access to Facebook, the world’s largest social network, and its Instagram photo-sharing site, was blocked around the world for up to an hour on 27/01/2015
