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Articles tagged with: Twitter
Twitter becomes mutual friend of Google, Microsoft
Twitter is selling the rights to mine its communications hotbed to both Internet search leader Google and Microsoft in dueling deals that underscore the growing importance of being able to show what's on people's minds at any given moment. more
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Grudgingly, young people finally flock to Twitter
They think it's pointless, narcissistic. Some don't even know what it is. Even so, more young adults and teens - normally at the cutting edge of technology - are finally coming around to Twitter, using it for class or work, monitoring the minutiae of celebrities' lives. more
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Twitter launches Japanese mobile site
The popular microblogging service on Thursday launched a Japan-based mobile version, hoping to penetrate a country where other U.S. social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace have failed to capture much ground. more
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HTC Shows Off Snapdragon Based Windows Mobile Smartphone
HTC has shown off a Qualcomm Snapdragon based Windows Mobile smartphone, the HD2, its first Windows phone with Sense, HTC's proprietary user interface. more
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Perhaps the best thing about Twitter is that it forces people to get to the point, in 140 characters or less. more
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Study: mobile microbloggers struggle to make their postings interesting
A study shows that mobile microbloggers struggle hard is to make postings interesting enough to keep audience coming back and commenting. The analysis by researchers from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Google and Elisa shows that microbloggers sometimes put in teasers to postings and highlight interesting aspects of their everyday experiences, inviting others to comment. However, perhaps due to publicity of the postings, microbloggers generally avoid revealing intimate emotions or experiences. more
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Twitter, texting useful for disaster communication
Text messaging, Twitter and social networking Web sites could help families stay in touch in the wake of a disaster, a national safety group working with the government said Tuesday. more
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Air Force used Twitter to track NY flyover fallout
As the Pentagon warns of the security risks posed by social networking sites, newly released government documents show the military also uses these Internet tools to monitor and react to coverage of high-profile events. more
Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Web
The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia - but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause. more
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Some NFL teams clamp down on texts, tweets
The only tweets during the Miami Dolphins scrimmage Saturday will come from the officials' whistles. The Dolphins are at the forefront of an NFL clampdown on Twitter and other social media, with new restrictions imposed on players, reporters and even spectators. more
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