Eric Xu

DMV➔CHI
Boxing fan, pasta enthusiast, MSJ Student at Northwestern.

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@MKBHD Apple events in a nutshell

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@nikhilchitre123 Unfortunately the article didn't specify, but I'm guessing those people were counted somehow. #PRGFALL14

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Facebook trying to develop AI to help prevent drunken posts; college students everywhere rejoice. #PRGFALL14

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Instagram officially surpasses twitter w/ 300mil log-ins/month vs 284mil for twitter. #PRGFALL14

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Whatsapp bug discovered by two, teenage indian researchers. 2kb large special character text message can potentially crash app. #PRGFALL14

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@nikhilchitre123 Not sure, but given that more guys are getting interested in style/fashion I could see it happening soon. #PRGFALL14

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@nikhilchitre123 So far as I understand, Seamless doesn't have any support outside of the US, much less in East/Southeast Asia. #PRGFALL14

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WeChat breaking into online food delivery w/support in 7 mkts (HK, TW, SG, MY, TH, PH & IN) eat your heart out seamless #PRGFALL14

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Pinterest with a growing male user population in Canada. Head of International Matt Crystal says user gender-gap shrinking. #PRGFALL14

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Zuckerberg making moves in China. Met with Lu Wei, major Chinese internet regulator. Potential 600 mil. user market... #PRGFALL14

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Twitter suddenly vanishes off of Glassdoor's list of best places to work. Internal reorganization and post IPO pains? #PRGFALL14

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Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova has been jailed in her home country sparking the rise of #FreeKhadija. #PRGFALL14

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Russell Brand gets banned from twitter after sharing reporter's contact info w/ 8.7 mil. followers. Laughing at privacy. #PRGFALL14

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@pavan_mahtani @AviSojitra Possibly, but I have a feeling that it might be difficult for producers to do that constantly. #PRGFALL14

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@NishantGrover78 We start thinking of them as words and pictures on a screen and forget that there was a person there once. #PRGFALL14

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@robertmivey Fair enough but when it comes to keeping up with current events minute-by-minute the BBC can't keep up with twitter. #PRGFALL14

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Ralph H. Baer, father of modern electronic gaming has passed at 92. Baer was the creator of the Odyssey (brown box) gaming system #PRGFALL14

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Facebook making their engineers use low end phones to study computing conditions in developing countries. Empathy through tech. #PRGFALL14

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Phillip Hughes's death raised the question of social media acting as digital graves. But is this trivializing death? #PRGFALL14

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Social media analytics might be misleading. Not the marketing promised land we thought it was? http://t.co/6Jx7NMvwRz #PRGFALL14