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Twitter's New @anywhere Aims to Make the Web One Big, Tweeting Coop

Discover the new Twitter Anywhere feature, enhancing third-party site integration and providing a seamless Twitter experience.

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There is no escape. If you thought you spent a lot of time tweeting and reading tweets before, that number could get even higher thanks to "@anywhere," the site's new feature announced at Austin's South by Southwest festival (SXSW) this week. The platform is intended to allow third-party sites to integrate Twitter more deeply and smoothly than they currently can.

The idea is to offer a more seamless experience to Twitter users navigating third party sites like the Huffington Post and the New York Times, giving them Twitter content without forcing them to jump off the page they’re currently viewing [TechCrunch]

. Twitter CEO Evan Williams went fairly light on the specifics of the new system, and gave no release date, during his keynote Q&A at SXSW, but some details have come out.

The way Twitter has described it, @anywhere will allow readers of articles at The New York Times ...

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