Twitter announces its #PoweredbyTweets competition winners

Twitter has announced the winners of its Powered by Tweets contest, which challenged users to create something beautiful or solve a problem using Twitter. Solve a problem In the ‘solve a problem’ category, the first prize went to the birds (naturally). Winners Pierre Duquesnoy and Matt Daniels came up with the idea of fitting pigeons with backpacks full of sensors to report air quality. Second place finishers Mark Carroll and Alex Willimott will use Twitter to track changes in how we use language, effectively watching the evolution of the written word (or emoji!). The third place winners partnered with WaterAid…

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