The brand will run such ads before videos from Fox shows including Glee, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and So You Think You Can Dance, among other shows, Jean Rossi, EVP of sales for Fox Broadcasting, told Variety. The first such ads launched last week.

Twitter began running Fox clips as part of Amplify, a program that brought sponsored clips to users’ news feeds in May. As Gawker points out, that means that the AmEx ads are, in effect, ads on top of ads.

Though Twitter’s IPO was considered successful, the company is not expected to post a profit until 2015 at the earliest. Since the company’s main source of revenues comes from advertising, Twitter has to walk a fine line between pleasing advertisers without compromising the user experience.

Twitter’s recent expansion of photos in timelines was one recent test of this middle path as Promoted Tweets suddenly got more real estate in the feed. Twitter isn’t alone in testing the boundaries for users’ tolerance for advertising; Instagram also recently introduced ads and Google has been testing banner ads for brand searches.

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The Times tested a feature it developed that allows users to click on a highlighted sentence from a story, and tweet it out directly, instead of just tweeting the headline. Readers who see the tweet and click on the accompanying link are brought to the highlighted part of the story, rather than to the beginning of the article.

The idea behind the feature was that while a headline doesn’t always grab you, an enthralling sentence from the middle of a story may do the trick. Times reporter Dave Itzkoff explained to Poynter his method for determining which sentences to highlight: “Just a bit of educated guesswork trying to imagine what readers would be drawn to and what would make the best traveling billboards for the overall story.”

The story that the Times chose — a feature on what it’s like to audition for Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels — was tweeted 11 times more frequently than “the average of the top 500 shared Times articles from the last month,” wrote Twitter data editor Simon Rogers in a blog post.

While the experiment lacks a sufficient sample size, the idea is that in providing users with a way to tweet content outside of a story’s headline, more sharing will result.

Previously, users could always read a story, then copy and paste an interesting sentence into a tweet. Now, the new feature allows publications to identify interesting or quote-worthy material for readers. Now, the new feature allows publications to identify interesting or quote-worthy material for readers. Twitter referred to the new tweet suggestions as “editorialized tweets.”

The Times told Poynter that the use of editorialized tweets will not carry over to all of its stories, but rather serve as an experiment, as the newspaper prepares for a site redesign next year.

The microblogging site has been actively releasing new features that make it easier to share articles. Last week, Twitter announced a Related Headlines update that automatically lists relevant stories alongside tweets. The feature is meant to provide context to tweets by showing users where they can get more information, if interested.

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The moment of excessive tweeting occurred during an Aug. 3 airing of Castle in the Sky, a Japanese animated film. That’s the same Castle in the Sky that was responsible for a previous “tweets in one second” record, only 25,188 back in 2011. Twitter typically sees about 500 million tweets per day, meaning an average of roughly 5,700 per second, according to the company’s blog.

Twitter often experiences spikes in usage during major events, including New Year’s Eve and the Super Bowl. During the 2010 World Cup, Twitter experienced such high traffic volumes that the site had difficulty operating without short blips in the service. Twitter has since made a number of hardware and software changes to accommodate the increase in traffic, and the company says the site remained completely operational during the record-breaking second.

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We’ve seen it on MTV’s Catfish. People pretend to be someone their not on Facebook, make another person fall in love with them and potentially ruin the relationship they have found themselves in. Seems to be a bit fishy… I don’t know why people hide behind a photo and are afraid to be who they are. When you look around there are so many different ads, books, and websites that influence you be yourself and love the person you are inside and out. No one should be hiding behind the computer screen. Embrace who you are and forget about the fake profile!

Businesses even buy fake fans & followers to help boost their popularity on their Social Media sites. By getting these high numbers, the account shows an indication of power over other pages and makes you feel like you need to follow the business as well. I get it, you want to get a lot of people to follow you on Twitter and Facebook, but do they really have to buy these followers to achieve it?

Some Social media agencies on the other hand create compelling content to engage current fans and inspire them to share out material. They help to increase a company’s fan volume organically. Why can’t businesses do the same?

It seems as if Turkey has kind of the right idea. The country is cracking down on fake users and banning the opening of “fake” Social Media accounts. Its government is trying to regulate online activity and attempting to stop various protests that have been going on. Turkish people are using Facebook and Twitter to protest against the government and their Prime Minister believes that Social Media is the key element to plot against him. He obviously wants to stop this from happening and is doing everything he legally can to do it… Ok, users from Turkey may not be pulling a catfish or try to buy fake fans &  follower for a business, but the issue of “fake profiles” is seen everywhere!

Twitter has been really trying to crack down on their fake users as well. Digitrock helps you out by auditing  to figure out who is phony and who is real. Digitrock will allow you to see if your fans & followers are real, fake, or inactive. Digitrock also help you to find out whether a friend is fake or not. However, WikiHow explains a couple of ways to investigate and see if someone is phony. Basically, be aware of who you accept as a friend, read their profile, see who their friends are and be alert for instances when they may post something weird. It’s up to you to figure out who is real and fake throughout these sites. Check it out and see how many of your friends or followers aren’t real!

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