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Aug. 3, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Ad spending heats up, Instagram blows up, Old Twitter closes down

“Tiny paragraphs, each one a sort of Tweet in itself, add up to a work, un oeuvre, of some yet-to-be-named kind.” http://nie.mn/mU5lvo »

“A hostile…campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents” http://nie.mn/o18KaU »

Report: HuffPost is launching a vertical for high schoolers. Further report: It will be edited by a 17-year-old. http://nie.mn/oshbHv »

Instagram users upload 1.3 million photos every day. That’s 15 photos every second. http://nie.mn/qVReA8 »

RT @lheron: Have you noticed? You no longer have to log in to NYTimes.com in order to tweet from our site. »

Knight + Mozilla, open source + journalism: Our rockstar academics do the #MozNewsLab http://nie.mn/nwX2Bq »

The latest “Why’s this so good?” from @niemanstory: Alma Guillermoprieto’s view on Bogota http://nie.mn/qJmti5 »

.@mynamecampaign fights for the right to be pseudonymous online http://nie.mn/rdMvZC »

PSA: @theprospect is looking for an associate web editor http://nie.mn/pWvRLe »

Old Twitter: soon to be sent to a nice farm upstate http://nie.mn/nYZx7v »

@joshtpm: “The more I run this site the more I think it would actually be better to have people comment as themselves.” http://nie.mn/obyeYc »

Facebook + Push Pop Press: Should publishers be worried? http://nie.mn/pDgXiJ »

The Economist has rolled out an all-access subscription with prices that vary by region http://nie.mn/rdgxVU »

IE users have a lower IQ than users of other browsers? Nope. Readers call out a bogus story http://nie.mn/plamxZ »

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii’s largest daily, is the latest paper to go paywall http://nie.mn/p4zxlJ »

Media giants will post quarterly revenue gains thanks to “the strongest ad spending in years” http://nie.mn/pmTmi4 »

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