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Twitter bomb joke conviction overturned
msnbc.com
A British man who joked on Twitter that he would blow up an airport after it closed because of snow has had his conviction for sending a "menacing" message overturned in a landmark ruling for users of social media websites. Paul Chambers, 28, had sent the ...
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Did One Direction Crash Twitter?
MTV.com
On Thursday (July 26), Twitter had some technical difficulties, making it impossible for anyone to get on the social networking site to tweet about their lunch, what they were watching on TV or any small grievances they may have had about riding the subway.
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MTV.com
Twitter: Data center problems caused outage
Businessweek
LONDON (AP) — Twitter blamed systems failures — not a crush of traffic around the Olympic games — for an outage on Thursday that saw people around the world experience problems accessing the micro blogging site for more than an hour. The San ...
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Daily Writing Sample: 'Not What They Ought to Say'
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In January 2010, traveler Paul Chambers was scanning Twitter and discovered delays at Robin Hood Airport (yep, real name) in Doncaster, England. The weather was acting up. "C—p! Robin Hood Airport is closed," the 26-year-old tweeted. "You've got a ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Twitter explains new mystery outage
Mother Nature Network
A freak double failure in its data centers took Twitter down for around an hour on Thursday, leaving millions without updates from friends, celebrities and news providers a day ahead of the Olympics. "We are sorry," said Mazen Rawashdeh, Twitter's vice ...
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Mother Nature Network
Data Center Problems Caused Twitter Outage
Sci-Tech Today
A "noteworthy" double failure in its data centers was the source of a Twitter outage, not an onslaught of Olympic traffic or a cascading bug. Many self-proclaimed "Twitter refugees" flooded Facebook with complaints about Twitter. As usual following outages, ...
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Sci-Tech Today
Lady Gaga makes acting debut in "Machete Kills"
Reuters
Rodriguez announced the casting on Thursday on Twitter, saying, "I just finished working with @LadyGaga on @MacheteKills, she kicked SO MUCH ASS! Holy Smokes. Blown away!" and posted a link to a poster featuring the singer. Gaga, 26, whose real ...
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Is Twitter up to the Olympic challenge?
CNET
Twitter has an Olympic-size headache on its hands. The microblogging site is making a push to be a bigger part of live events -- especially the London Games -- but had trouble keeping its feeds up and running on the eve of one of its biggest. Twitter CEO Dick ...
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Twitter joke trial man wins appeal
ZDNet
Paul Chambers, found guilty of sending a menacing message after joking that he would blow up Robin Hood Airport, has had his conviction overturned by the High Court. David Allen Green, Chambers' solicitor, sent two tweets on Friday after the judges ...
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British man wins 'Twitter threat' appeal
Boston.com
Thousands of Twitter supporters retweeted Chambers' message after he was convicted with the tag ''I Am Spartacus'' — a reference to the 1960 movie epic in which the titular hero's fellow rebels all assume his identity in a gesture of solidarity. His lawyer had ...
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Twitter: Data center problems, not Olympics, caused outage
Indianapolis Star
Users across the United States, Europe and Africa were reporting outages or sluggishness on the day before the London 2012 Games are expected to cause a spike in activity on the site. Twitter says the outage was an internal error, not due to ...
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Twitter joke trial: authorities akin to 'The Stasi', says Al Murray
Telegraph.co.uk
British authorities were acting like the "Stasi" when they charged a man for joking about blowing up an airport on Twitter, Al Murray said in the wake of the country's most senior judge overturning the conviction. Paul Chambers at the High Court, with Stephen ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Twitter suffers second outage in five weeks
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A data center glitch brought down Twitter for roughly 2 hours on Thursday, as the micro-blogging service suffered its second widespread outage in 5 weeks and another blow to its reputation and reliability. "I wish I could say that ...
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Twitter Confirms Removing Follow Graph From Instagram's 'Find Friends'
Mashable
Twitter has confirmed the removal of its follow graph data from Instagram, disabling the "Find Twitter Friends" feature in the photo app. Users can still find people from their phone's contact list and Facebook friends list. "We understand that there's great value ...
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Memo to Twitter: Failure Is No Longer Amusing
TechNewsWorld
Long-time users of Twitter may take site outages in stride, but most are probably annoyed, at the very least. Now that the site has expanded and has enough analytic information about periods of heavy tweeting, the small glitches are a little more difficult to ...
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Twitter Hit With 'Is This You?' Photo Malware
PC Magazine
Twitter users who receive these or similar messages are encouraged to not click on them. The accounts from which the messages are being sent have either been compromised by hackers, or were created by hackers with the intent of spreading mass links, ...
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Twitter Blames Two-hour Failure on Dual Data-center Crashes
PCWorld
Twitter went down between about 8:20 a.m. and 9 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday and was back in action by about 10:25 a.m., wrote Mazen Rawashdeh, vice president of engineering. Though some users suspected an overload of Tweets related to the ...
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Twitter joke trial: Paul Chambers wins high court appeal against conviction
The Guardian
Chambers had arrived at the snow-bound airport on 6 January 2010 hoping to fly to Belfast to meet Sarah Tonner, whom he had met on Twitter where she was known as @CrazyColours. A week later he was arrested by four officers from South Yorkshire ...
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The Guardian
The Twitter joke trial and the twits who pursued Paul Chambers
The Guardian
In a way, it wasn't that helpful that this was known as the Twitter joke trial. It might better have been called the obvious joke trial. "The more one reflects on it," the justices state dryly, "the clearer it becomes that this message did not represent a terrorist threat, ...
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The Guardian
Judges, courts and 'Twitter'
The Guardian
Once again, the lord chief justice proves that he has a sense of humour by quashing Paul Chambers's conviction in the Twitter joke trial. Chambers was found guilty of sending a message of a menacing character when he tweeted: "Crap! Robin Hood airport is ...
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The Guardian
Google Fiber Launches; Twitter Outage; Valve Talks Windows 8 'Catastrophe'
PC Magazine
Meanwhile, Twitter experienced a brief outage yesterday, shortly after Google Talk also went dark. Twitter later apologized for the inconvenience, blaming the outage on an "infrastructural double-whammy." According to a company blog post, Twitter's two ...
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Instagram blocked from Twitter API
CBS News
Twitter no longer allows its users to access this information in Instagram via the Twitter API. We apologize for any inconvenience." According to TechCrunch, Twitter has decided to turn off its API for Instagram although other social apps, such as The Fancy and ...
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Twitter joke trial: for Paul Chambers, common sense has finally prevailed
The Guardian
To recap: Chambers had arrived at Robin Hood airport in South Yorkshire on 6 January 2010 hoping to fly to Belfast to meet his girlfriend, whom he had met on Twitter. On finding the airport closed by snow, he tweeted: "Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed.
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The Guardian
British court overturns conviction of man convicted of airport 'threat' on Twitter
Washington Post
LONDON — A British man on Friday won a High Court challenge of his conviction for tweeting that he would blow up an airport if his flight was canceled, a ruling that had made him an Internet free speech cause celebre. Paul Chambers, 28, was convicted and ...
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Twitter joke trial man wins his appeal
CNET
A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet threatening to blow up an airport has won a high court challenge to his conviction. In January 2010, Paul Chambers sent a single, frustrated tweet to approximately 600 followers after Robin Hood Airport in ...
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Vermont gives residents reins to Twitter account
Huffington Post
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont's tourism department is giving state residents reins to a Twitter account, to get the word out about their state. Each week, a different Vermonter will take over the Twitter handle THISISVT, posting glimpses of life in Vermont for ...
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Twitter apologizes for worldwide outage
CNN
(CNN) -- Social networking site Twitter apologized for a worldwide outage Thursday that left the site inaccessible for more than an hour. It blamed the outage on a technical fault and said that despite speculation, it wasn't related to the London Olympics, which ...
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Twitter joke trial became confrontation with judicial establishment
The Guardian
One of the oddest aspects of the Twitter joke trial was that no one who read Paul Chambers's ironic tirade felt it constituted a credible threat. Staff at Doncaster's Robin Hood airport who first spotted his message of frustration, police officers and prosecutors, ...
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The Guardian
Twitter joke trial conviction quashed in High Court
Telegraph.co.uk
"We have concluded that, on an objective assessment, the decision of the Crown Court that this 'tweet' constituted or included a message of a menacing character was not open to it. On this basis, the appeal against conviction must be allowed," said the Lord ...
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Telegraph.co.uk

Blogs14 new results for Twitter
 
Twitter Blog: Spotlight on Olympic stories
By Twitter
When it comes to events that capture the world's attention, the Olympic Games have long been the gold standard — and never more so than right now, when Twitter is on hand for every competition. Even today, heading into the Opening ...
Twitter Blog
Twitter's Laying Eggs: Many Avatars Missing | TechCrunch
By Billy Gallagher
Twitter's having a rough day. It was down for nearly an hour earlier today, and now, many users are complaining that their Avatars have been replaced by an egg, the Avatar given to newcomers who have not yet uploaded their own picture.
TechCrunch
Twitter Apologizes for Massive Outage
By Samantha Murphy
Following a lengthy outage on Thursday, Twitter it is "deeply" sorry for the inconvenience it has caused its users.
Mashable
Court quashes Twitter joke trial verdict: Britain has a sense of humor ...
By Bobbie Johnson
It started with an innocuous tweet and turned into a legal saga that critics said threatened free speech online. But, after two years and three appeals, the UK's High Court has overturned the conviction of a man who joked about blowing up his ...
GigaOM
Twitter rumored to be pitching in-feed video shows to studios ...
By Jon Fingas
Twitter has been making a giant push for expanded tweets from content providers. It's only a short logical leap from that to Twitter providing the.
Engadget
When disaster strikes, Twitter might save us | Grist
By Rachel Nuwer
Scientists mine social media, email, and other communication data to prepare hurricanes, heat waves, and other natural disasters.
Grist
Tech Report: Twitter Apologizes After Outage « CBS San Francisco
By Andre Torrez
Twitter apologized for an outage that lasted about an hour Thursday morning just hours before the official start of the Olympic Games in London.
CBS San Francisco
Eliza Dushku Crashes Twitter's Hearts (But Not Its Servers ...
By Owen Thomas
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who apparently had a brief visit with Dushku, recently told the New York Times that the company has a special team that works with celebrities, as well as politicians, athletes, and media companies. "We call them ...
SAI
Turn Twitter Followers into Blog Subscribers in 2 Steps : @ProBlogger
By Guest Blogger
This guest post is by Momekh of LifeETC. Too many interesting people out their are not using Twitter effectively. They ...
@ProBlogger
Instagram Growth Far Outpaces Facebook or Twitter
By John Paul Titlow
Instagram is exploding. Sure, the mobile photo-sharing service has been the object of buzz and adoration since day one, but few could have predicted a growth rate quite this phenomenal. Instagram boasts an amazing 80 million users, the ...
ReadWriteWeb
As Instagram hits 80 million users, Twitter cuts off their 'find friends ...
By Mike Beasley
These are impressive statistics, but it seems those 80 million users will have a more difficult time finding their Twitter friends' Instagram profiles. Today's Instagram update removed the option to lookup and follow friends from your Twitter profile.
9to5Mac
Outbreak: Blackhole malware attack spreading on Twitter using "It's ...
By Graham Cluley
Watch out! Malicious links are being spammed out on Twitter, designed to infect your Windows PC using the Blackhole exploit kit.
Naked Security - Sophos
UPDATE: Twitter Says System "Double-Whammy" Caused Blackout ...
By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
UPDATE, 2:45 PM: Twitter apologized for today's outage, which it says in a blog post lasted from 8:20 AM PT to 9:00. VP for Engineering Mazen Rawashdeh sa.
Deadline.com
Instagram drops 'Find Twitter Friends' feature | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
The $1 billion dollar company Instagram, which was purchased by Facebook in recent times, has said that they will be dropping the 'Find Twitter Friends' feature, as those who were looking for their friends through their Twitter contacts were ...
Ubergizmo

Web2 new results for Twitter
 
The British Library (britishlibrary) on Twitter
The British Library. @britishlibrary. Colin Wight is Senior Content Manager at the British Library. Assisted by Hanna Fayaz. Working on Writing Britain, YouTube, ...
199.16.156.9/britishlibrary
Singapore Airlines (SingaporeAir) on Twitter
Welcome to the official SIA Twitter page! For specific feedback, share with us via http://bit.ly/pNINCN or contact your local SIA office (http://bit.ly/qmRATA) ...
199.59.149.201/SingaporeAir


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