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When tweets can make you a jailbird

2010-03-16T20:45:06Z

<div id="subtitle">The feds turn to social networks to fight crime, hoping that tweet will give them a jailbird</div><div><p>Maxi Sopo was having so much fun "living in paradise" in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor in Seattle<...

Twitter working on Chinese registration page

2010-03-16T01:15:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Twitter remains blocked in China, but company hopes to develop Chinese registration page</div><div><p>Twitter is working on a way to allow Chinese users to sign up to the social networking site in their own language, a co-founder of the site said Monday night, but access to the popular site remains blocked in the country.</p><p>Facebook feds go undercover: Report shows FBI, other agents dipping quietly into social media</div><div><p>The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Haiti to assist recovery efforts following earthquake</div><div><p>Three New York Jets players traveled to Haiti on Monday to help with the relief and recovery efforts following the earthquake that killed a government-estimated 230,000 people and made 1.3 million homeless in January.</p><p>Safety Twitter on Monday began letting its hot microblogging service be integrated into websites such as YouTube and Microsoft's Bing with a new "@Anywhere" feature.</p><p>"This is not an ad platform, it is an 'at' platform," Twitter co-founder Evan Williams ...

4 Beneficial Points Laid Out by Twitter Marketing

2010-03-15T20:51:09Z

Groups, organizations, celebrities, and even politicians being active on Twitter are not a brand new thing. You?ll get to see John Mccain, Shaquille O?neil and even President Obama casually airing their twitter accounts in public.<br><br>But what makes Twitter so popular that people won?t stand a day not talking about...

Militant and hate group Internet use grows: report

2010-03-15T12:30:16Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by militant and hate groups grew by almost 20 percent in the past year, a report by the Twitter adds option allowing users to automatically broadcast their location</div><div><p>Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.</p><p>A new feature unveiled Thursday gives Twitter users the option of including their location with the assorted musings posted on the Internet messaging service.</p>&...

Twitter to vet links with goal of curbing phishing attacks

2010-03-11T04:15:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Twitter on Tuesday launched a new service designed to curb phishing links delivered in the microblogging site's direct messages and email notifications.</div><div><p>Twitter on Tuesday launched a new service designed to curb phishing links delivered in the microblogging site's direct messages and email notifications. URLs will be checked against a blacklist of fraudulent sites, such as ones hosting...

Conan's lone Twitter followee: 'It's totally nuts'

2010-03-11T00:17:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Mich. resident's world turned upside down by O'Brien's decision to follow only her on Twitter</div><div><p>Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.</p><p>This week, she has 20,000 — as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her we...

OBrien Web Celeb

2010-03-10T19:18:16Z

Sarah Killen, right, and fiancee, John Slowik Jr., browse the internet at their home in Conway Township, Mich. on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. In early March 2010, she had three Twitter followers. A week later, she has 20,000 - as well as the new computer and offers to help pay for a dre...

O Brien Web Celeb

2010-03-10T19:18:15Z

Sarah Killen, left, and fiancee, John Slowik Jr., stand together at their home in Conway Township, Mich. on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. In early March 2010, she had three Twitter followers. A week later, she has 20,000 - as well as the new computer and offers to help pay for a dress and...

Courts finally catching up to texting jurors

2010-03-06T15:00:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Courts now barring jurors use of social media, blogs and Internet while serving on trials</div><div><p>Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches.</p><p>That's the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices continue to cause mistrials, overturned convictions and chaotic delays in court proceedings.</p><p>Last year a Twitter to inform the world about the earthquake which ravaged his country was among the users of the micro-blogging service honored at a ceremony.</p><p>"I dedicate this to my country Haiti," said Carel Pedre after receiving a special "humanitarian" award at the second annual "Shorty ...

Jane's Addiction member quits after Australia tour

2010-03-03T12:00:16Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The bass player with Jane's Addiction has quit the band, and will reportedly be replaced by former Guns N' Roses rocker Duff McKagan.</p><p>Eric <...

Military allows Twitter, other social media

2010-03-01T08:00:34Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called "Web 2.0" sites across the U.S. military, saying the benef...

Facebook wins US patent for 'news feeds'

2010-02-27T03:15:42Z

<div><p>Facebook has won a US patent on news feeds behind the kinds of real-time updates that make social-networking websites a hit with users.</p><p>"The launch of News Feed in 2006 was a pivotal moment in Facebook?s history and changed the way millions of people consumed and discovered information on the site," Facebook said Friday in an email response to ...

Twitter wants users to update their personal info

2010-02-27T01:45:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Twitter prodding users to update settings to create more ways for people to find each other</div><div><p>Twitter is prodding its users to update their personal settings to create more ways for people to connect on its communications service.</p><p>The request will pop up when Twitter users log into their accounts. Among other things, Twitter is encouraging people to allow their e-mail a...

Facebook patents social networking update feeds

2010-02-27T00:16:25Z

US military lets soldiers Tweet, blog and Facebook

2010-02-26T22:16:06Z

<div><p>The Pentagon said soldiers will be allowed to Tweet, blog and update their Facebook pages on the US military's non-classified computer network under a new policy.</p><p>The decision came after a seven-month review with senior officials concluding that the benefits of social media outweig...