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Twitter Rolling-Out Dedicated WhatsApp Share Button to Android App

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Twitter on Monday released an update for its Android app, which brings the much-touted dedicated WhatsApp share button. The microblogging service has also been seen experimenting with a new way to retweet. Media reports have been claiming that Twitter was testing the WhatsApp button feature in its Android mobile app for some time. However, the newest update (on June 23) to Twitter's Android app rolls the feature out to all users. The new dedicated WhatsApp share button on the Android app is located at the bottom of a tweet, alongside the existing share button which gives options to share on Gmail, mail, message, BBM, Facebook, Google+, Facebook Messenger, and Skype, as well as (funnily enough) WhatsApp again. The Next Web citing some tweets suggested that for some users the dedicated WhatsApp button appeared on top of the screen, placed alongside the search icon. Notably, the Google Play listing of the Twitter official app notes that the recent June 23 update brough

Man bet that Luis Suarez would bite opponent, wins over $900

Not everyone was mad at Luis Suarez for biting Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay's World Cup match against Italy on Tuesday. One Norwegian man won $5,600 thanks to Suarez's habit of sinking his teeth into his opponents. According to Afterposten, Norway's largest newspaper, Thomas Syversen took a chance on the 175-to-1 odds that Suarez would bite someone during the match. "This is probably the sickest game I've handed in, not to mention the sickest game I've won," Syversen told Afterposten (the quote was then translated).