Saturday, October 20, 2012

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Twitter Gives Saudi Arabia a Revolution of Its Own
New York Times
Open criticism of this country's royal family, once unheard-of, has become commonplace in recent months. Prominent judges and lawyers issue fierce public broadsides about large-scale government corruption and social neglect. Women deride the clerics ...
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Twitter pulls racist tweets
USA TODAY
Twitter logo. Twitter is increasingly running up against European anti-discrimination laws. (Photo: KIMIHIRO HOSHINO AFP/Getty Images). Story Highlights. Decision comes a day after Twitter blocked neo-Nazi group in Germany; Unclear how company will ...
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Tom Hanks Twitter Apology; F-Word Dropped on Live T.V.
Gather.com
In celebrity damage control fashion, a Tom Hanks Twitter apology was issued. After dropping the F-word on live television, expectedly fans and viewers went nuts. Twitter has recently become the authority for all things apologetic when celebrities slip up.
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Slate: Twitter for people who don't like Twitter
Chicago Daily Herald
Twitter, in contrast, remains a niche service. It borders on an obsession for many media and PR types, celebrities and athletes, comedians and wonks, who want to broadcast their ideas to a wider audience. But the average working person would rather ...
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Twitter blocks Germans' access to neo-Nazis' account
San Jose Mercury News
BERLIN -- Twitter waded into potentially perilous territory Thursday when it blocked users in Germany from access to the account of a neo-Nazi group that is banned by the government here. The move was the first time that Twitter acted on a policy known ...
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Is Twitter Starving Pheed? New Social Network Says Its Twitter Connect Got Cut ...
TechCrunch
The site says that about two hours ago, Twitter cut off access for people to log into the site using their Twitter credentials. Users can still log in with their email or Facebook accounts, but those who have already signed up by linking their Twitter ...
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Barry Zito Twitter hashtag trends worldwide
San Jose Mercury News
A Twitter hashtag named RallyZito that was started by a Giants' fan was trending worldwide on Friday night. Named after Giants left-hander Barry Zito and started by a fan, it had close to 25,000 tweets by the time Zito departed Game 5 with a 5-0 lead ...
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Liberals on Twitter threaten to attack, burn White House if Romney wins
Examiner.com
Not content with threats to riot if Romney wins in November, some liberals on Twitter have announced that they intend to vandalize and burn down the White House if the GOP candidate is victorious, Twitchy reported Friday. "If Romney wins I'm blowing up ...
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Examiner.com
Rupert Murdoch apologizes to Hugh Grant on Twitter over 'love child' comment
GlobalPost (blog)
Rupert Murdoch has made a public apology to Hugh Grant for suggesting on Twitter that the actor had abandoned his "love child." Murdoch made the accusation in a stream of tweets in response to an Australian news report alleging that he called celebrity ...
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Lady Gaga Twitter fights with rap group over their video spoofing her
Examiner.com
Lady Gaga is embroiled in a Twitter war with South African rap group "Die Antwoord", E! News reports today. It started with Lady Gaga asking the band to open for her on her tour, which they declined. The group then released a music video last Tuesday ...
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Instagram Translates Twitter Mentions for Easier Sharing
PC Magazine
Have you ever shared a photo from Instagram to Twitter, only to realize that the person you @mentioned in your caption has a different username for both services? How annoying! Well good news; you won't have to worry about tweeting the wrong person ...
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Udonis Haslem turns to Twitter in LeBron's defense
Sun-Sentinel
Miami — For Heat forward Udonis Haslem, it was one of negatives of the China trip. Haslem was awake early Friday morning after the Heat defeated the Detroit Pistons. It was then when he decided to make a rare Twitter appearance to defend teammate ...
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Twitter Blocks 'Offensive' Accounts In Germany, U.K.; Deletes Tweets In France
NPR (blog)
In the first case, as The Guardian writes, a German official sent a letter notifying Twitter that a right-wing group that called itself Better Hanover had been banned for their neo-Nazi views and anarchistic hate speech. But the group was still spewing ...
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LAPD Posts 'Grim Sleeper' Photos To Facebook, Twitter In To Help Identify ...
Huffington Post
In the hopes of identifying possible victims of the so-called "Grim Sleeper" killer, the Los Angeles Police Department has posted images of 42 women whose photos were found in the possession of Lonnie David Franklin Jr., a 59-year-old retired auto ...
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Attorneys for George Zimmerman battle for Trayvon Martin's school records ...
NBCNews.com (blog)
George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, appeared Friday in a Florida court, where his defense team was arguing for access to the teen's school records and social media postings.
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Facebook And Twitter Apps Pulled From Xbox 360, Microsoft Suggests Internet ...
MTV.com (blog)
The Facebook and Twitter apps that were added to the Xbox 360 a few years back are no more. In a recent statement to IGN, a Microsoft rep said the apps were pulled to make the new Fall Update experience more "streamlined." Honestly, we're not that ...
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MTV.com (blog)
Twitter Turns #SignsYoSonIsGay Hashtag Into Warm and Fuzzy Support Group
Gawker
Twitter Turns #SignsYoSonIsGay Hashtag Into Warm and Fuzzy Support Group This morning someone out there woke up, opened the window, took a breath of fresh air and said, "I'm going to start a homophobic hashtag on Twitter." At least that's how I ...
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Walker quits Twitter after abuse
Belfast Telegraph
Tottenham defender Kyle Walker has deleted his Twitter account after receiving abuse on the micro-blogging website about his performance in the 4-2 defeat to Chelsea. After the game he posted two angry tweets before deleting his account @kyle28walker, ...
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Belfast Telegraph
England's Soccer Team Faces New Rules About Tweeting
Tom's Hardware Guide
Soccer players in England will soon be facing new restrictions on Twitter use. The FA is expected to announce a new code of conduct that will include conditions on Twitter use for the England team. Though full details of the new code of conduct have ...
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From top models to Twitter trolls
Sydney Morning Herald
Charlotte Dawson should do away with reality television as she would be better suited to an Australian remake of The Golden Girls. Acting, marriage and romantic relationships may not be fortes of the Australia's Next Top Model judge but friendships ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Twitter Blocks Neo-Nazi Account in Germany, Marking First Use of Local ...
WebProNews
According to the New York Times, Twitter has blocked the account @hannoverticker, wich belongs to the group Besseres Hannover. In English, that translates to "Better Hannover." German authorities had requested that Twitter simply block the account ...
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Twitter and Facebook 'harming children's development'
Irish Independent
Susan Adele Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, criticised the "unhealthy" addiction to Twitter among some users who resort to increasingly nasty outbursts under the "sanitised and often anonymous guise of the web". She also ...
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Buzzam Radio Delivers Music, News, Twitter and Facebook in Slick Audio App
Wired (blog)
The Social Radio for Twitter took a step in this direction by reading your tweets in between songs. Buzzam Radio goes further, adding a number of elements to its free streaming radio offering that offer a unique (so far as we know) hybrid between music ...
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Wired (blog)
Hard Leads and Twitter Memes: The Making of News
Huffington Post
This semester (and presidential campaign) are in full swing, and my students have a lot to say. As part of the "Blog Blog Project" I began last semester, students in my fall semester Politics & Technology class at the University of Delaware are writing ...
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Twitter Users Deny Justin Foster Is Really A Victim
San Francisco Luxury News
BY Amethyst Tate | October 19 2012 3:42 PM Justin Foster, a current 18-year-old West Virginia University student, ended a teacher's career after posting nude pictures of Anna Michelle Walters on his Twitter account, along with intimate text messages ...
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Romnesia's rise from Twitter to Obama
Politico
The word may have been coined by liberal Twitter user @BreakingNuts, who tweeted on March 23, "Romnesia: a severe form of amnesia that strikes dishonest politicians. #Romney #GOP #Amnesia #Romnesia." The Nation's editor and publisher, Katrina ...
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Politico
Twitter helps educators communicate school news
Hattiesburg American
Educators in the Pine Belt are reaching out to students in more ways than ever before these days. I was talking recently to Lamar County School District Superintendent Ben Burnett about his recent decision to start using Twitter. Burnett is trying to ...
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Going deeper than Big Bird and binders on Twitter and TV debates
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Tuesday's town hall showdown generated 12.24 million comments on Twitter and Facebook, making it the top political event of all time in social media. Before the debate had even ended, a phrase uttered by Romney, "binders full of women," had 20 Facebook ...
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MICHELLE MALKIN: Obama campaign co-chair gets schooled
Torrington Register Citizen
(I'm editing the vulgarity for family newspapers, but the tweet's foul reference to a woman's reproductive organs was neither censored nor disavowed by Longoria on her Twitter timeline.) On Wednesday morning, the editors at Twitchy.com, my Twitter ...
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Blogs13 new results for Twitter
 
Microsoft 'retiring' Facebook and Twitter Xbox 360 Dashboard apps ...
By Alexis Santos
Eagle-eyed gamers may have already noticed that the Xbox 360's dedicated Twitter and Facebook apps have gone missing after the latest Dashboard update,
Engadget
No More Twitter & Facebook for Xbox 360
By Alex Wilhelm
IGN has a touch more from the company on the choice: "Speaking to IGN, a Microsoft representative said 'we're retiring the Facebook and Twitter apps' in an effort to 'streamline' app functionality on 360." Streamlining. Given that Microsoft has ...
The Next Web
Everyone's talking about weird twitter - Boing Boing
By Rob Beschizza
What it's like to be on Jeopardy. A spam filter almost scotched my chance to be on television. How's Your News, Election 2012: developmentally disabled reporters go to GOP and DNC. Developmentally disabled news reporters cover the weird ...
Boing Boing
Twitter, Facebook, and old new media
By Jason Kottke
Twitter, Facebook, and old new mediaOCT 19 2012. Newsweek announced yesterday that the print magazine will cease publication and the entire thing will move to an all-digital format. Newsweek Global, as the all-digital publication will be ...
kottke.org
Whoopi Goldberg faces Twitter hate after Ann Romney 'View - theGrio
By Joy-Ann Reid
Whoopi Goldberg faced a barrage of angry and insulting tweets from Mitt Romney supporters following a segment on "The View" featuring Ann Romney and one of the five Romney sons. On the Thursday episode of the weekday talk show, ...
theGrio
The parody Twitter account that got game designer Peter Molyneux ...
By Louis Goddard
Wired has published an intriguing dual interview with legendary game designer Peter Molyneux and his Twitter doppelganger, @PeterMolydeux, telling the story of how the parody account helped...
The Verge - All Posts
Instagram Now Converts @ Mentions to the Correct Twitter Handle ...
By Josh Wolford
What if you @mention your friend on Instagram and cross-post it to Twitter, but your friend has a different handle there than he does on Instagram. Then your tweet features a worthless @ mention that is definitely not your friend and could be ...
Top News - WebProNews
Oh No They Didn't! - Frances Bean Cobain creates a twitter to talk ...
By Roguewave
Frances Bean Cobain creates a twitter to talk about the stalker that broke into her home. Read from bottom to .... I mean, 9 tweets... I understand why she created the twitter account, but I don't understand why she thinks this will help her cause.
Oh No They Didn't!
Twitter Indicates it Will Act Upon Requests to Censor Hate Speech ...
In a second instance, Twitter agreed to deleted tweets associated with a French anti-Semitic hashtag that became the country's third highest trending. The hashtag, #unbonjuif (A good Jew) was used as a meme that opened a sentence, which ...
TechPresident
Evelyn's Still Finding Men On Twitter - Madame Noire
By Brande Victorian
Evevlyn Lozada Is Going To Prom With Twitter Follower. Discuss on Madamenoire.com.
Madame Noire | Black Women's...
JWoww Slams Angelina Pivarnick's Anti-Gay Rant - Twitter Feud ...
By Shari Weiss
VIDEO - JWoww blasted former Jersey Shore co-star Angelina Pivarnick on Twitter after the reality star went on an anti-gay rant. WATCH HERE!
Gossip Cop
DJs React to DJ Mag Poll on Twitter - Big Shot News Flash!
By Darren Ressler
Since last night DJs have been on Twitter, some expressing their gratitude for making the list and others having a less positive view. Winner Armin van Buuren tweeted that his victory was "overwhelming"; Hardwell proclaimed he has "the best ...
Big Shot News Flash!
Obama campaign strikes Twitter gold diagnosing: #Romnesia
President Barack Obama turned his opponent's name into an ailment in need of a cure on Friday striking Twitter gold after coining the term "#Romnesia," referring to Mitt Romney's tendency to forget his political positions.
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Web3 new results for Twitter
 
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Microsoft "Retiring" Facebook and Twitter Xbox Apps - IGN
Did you apply the Xbox update? You may have noticed your social media apps vanished ...
www.ign.com/.../microsoft-retiring-facebook-and-twitter-xbox...
Twitter Officially Censored Its First Account Today
Earlier today, Twitter blocked its first account, a German neo-Nazi group that German police say is a "criminal organization." This is the first time Twitter has ever ...
gawker.com/5952761


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