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Twitter Fight! S. Korea Blocks North's Tweets

Seoul apparently worried about the propaganda

(Newser) - Don't they have this backward? After North Korea took a shine to Twitter , South Korea is censoring its tweets. The North began tweeting a week ago—propaganda, along the lines of 'we didn't sink that boat'—and the South has just blocked its residents from accessing the feed, the Guardian... More »

Texting While Driving Likely Caused Celeb Surgeon's Crash

Heidi Montag's doctor went over Malibu cliff

(Newser) - Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to the stars, was texting while driving just before he went over a cliff in Malibu and died, his ex-girlfriend tells People . Ryan, who performed surgery on Heidi Montag among others, reportedly went over the side around 4:30pm. Shortly before that, he tweeted a... More »

Now on Twitter: North Korea?!

Official outlet sets up its 140-character shop

(Newser) - If you're among those wondering just what the hell Kim Jong-Il is thinking, well, you'll probably never know. But Dear Leader's iron fist on information has loosened just enough for Pyongyang to establish its first official Twitter presence, reports Mashable. The Uriminzokkiri ("Our Nation") official website set up... More »

Beiber Tweets Foe's Phone Number

Today in the world of gossip you only know about if you're 13

(Newser) - Justin Bieber seems so sweet and adorable, right? But he is apparently not above tweeting an enemy's phone number to his 4.5 million followers. Gawker reports that the foe in question, teen Kevin Kristopik, allegedly hacked the Twitter account of one of the Bieb's childhood friends and got Justin's... More »

Twitter, YouTube Get Movie Trailers

Fake movies look better than 'The Social Network'

(Newser) - The debut of the melodramatic trailer for The Social Network—aka "the Facebook movie"—was basically guaranteed to be followed by parodies. Luckily, the spoofs are pretty darn hilarious. So far Twitter (sample line: "I need to create a way to blog that is as random and... More »

Meet MTV's 'Twitter Jockey'

Gabi Gregg won the reality competition for 'TJ' title

(Newser) - College is clearly a waste of time : All you need to do to earn $100,000 a year is be a really, really good tweeter. That's how much Gabi Gregg, a 23-year-old from Detroit, will earn when she officially starts her job as MTV's first "Twitter Jockey" (or "... More »

Twitter Nabs Subway Flasher

Tweeted photo leads cops to perv

(Newser) - When a flasher started openly fondling himself on a Boston subway last week, fellow passenger Nay Khun took the issue to Twitter. Khun snapped and immediately tweeted a photo of the flasher, writing: "pervert on the 2nd car of the red line ... help me report him." Thanks in... More »

Beck Favorites White Supremacist Tweet

Then deletes it when someone notices

(Newser) - Until recently, Glenn Beck had a pretty eyebrow-raising tweet on his “favorites” page on Twitter. On Monday, the StopBeck blog noticed that the top tweet on Beck’s favorite page was from MalevoFreedom, a white supremacist account that uses the neo-Nazi Stormfront logo as its Twitter icon. The tweet... More »

Random Guy Kanye's Following: Leave Me Alone

Steve Holmes not a fan of his instant fame

(Newser) - The random woman Conan O’Brien decided to follow on Twitter got a new computer , donations to her cancer walk , and the wedding of her dreams . The random guy Kanye West decided to follow on Twitter just got…annoyed. “Before this weekend I thought it would be cool to... More »

Bill Cosby: I'm Not Dead

Twitter tries and fails to take down another celebrity

(Newser) - Bill Cosby is not dead, despite what you might have read on the Internet this afternoon. In fact, the 73-year-old comedy legend is alive, well, and making up words on Twitter, reports WPIX . Using a term he created after a similar false alarm in February, he tweeted today, "Again,... More »

Social Networking Dominates Time Spent Online

Users only spend 8.3% of their Internet time on email

(Newser) - Social networking websites continue to dominate an increasing portion of the time we spend online, new Nielsen data says. Users are spending 23% of their time on the Internet using sites like Facebook and MySpace, and just 8.3% on email. Only last year, the split was much more even:... More »

Tumblr Raises Its Social Media Profile

Blogging site hires journalist to woo big media outlets

(Newser) - Is Tumblr the Next Big Thing in social media? The New York Times seems to think so, giving it a feature in today’s paper—and you might see more such coverage soon, because the small blogging site is specifically trying to reach out to the media. It hired former... More »

Flipboard iPad App Wins Rave Reviews

It creates a personalized 'magazine' from Facebook, Twitter, news sources

(Newser) - Flipboard may be the first true killer app for the iPad, a "social magazine" that weaves information from your Facebook and Twitter feeds together with personalized, aggregated news content into an attractive, intuitive presentation. The app's smooth, magazine-like appearance has drawn almost universal acclaim—check these reviews from... More »

'I've Unretired': Amanda Bynes

Actress breaks career news on Twitter again

(Newser) - A month after stunning Hollywood and sparking questions about her mental stability with the news of her retirement , Amanda Bynes wants a do-over. "I've unretired," the 24-year-old on-again-off-again actress tweeted . She's a co-star of the buzzed-about high school comedy Easy A, notes People —and within minutes of... More »

Ode to Web 1.0: Sites We Miss

Esquire : Sites that were before their time

(Newser) - Everything old is new again, especially on the Web. Some of today's tech darlings owe a lot to websites of years past. Here are some of Esquire's 15 favorite, and mostly kaput, Web 1.0 pioneers:
  1. Dodgeball (2000) "A location-based social network for mobile devices, and the Internet's gift
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Physicists: We Need to Look for Alien Tweets

Scientists say SETI has the wrong approach

(Newser) - If aliens are out there and trying to communicate, they are most likely sending short messages—the interstellar equivalent of Tweets, the Telegraph reports. The theory of a cosmic Twitter is being put forth by two physicists calling for a new approach to the long-running Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project.... More »

Twitter Visualization Shows Detroit Is Never Happy

(Newser) - Some intrepid researchers at Harvard and Northeastern culled hundreds of millions of tweets over the past three years and analyzed the language to put together a handy YouTube visualization of people's moods across the country. Essentially, everyone's happiest when they wake up or are about to fall asleep and they're... More »

Bloomberg Blasts Palin's Mosque Tweets

Or should we say he 'refudiates' them?

(Newser) - Michael Bloomberg was drawn into a war of words with Sarah Palin today, after one of his aides responded harshly to Sarah Palin’s bumbling tweets about the mosque being built near Ground Zero. In response to Palin’s last tweet—“Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is... More »

Romney Blasts 'Numbskull' Advisers for Palin Slams

GOP frontrunner defends rival on Twitter

(Newser) - Time quoted anonymous advisers to Mitt Romney dissing Sarah Palin in this article yesterday, and today Romney himself came to her defense. On Twitter , no less: "TIME says unnamed advisors disparaged @SarahPalinUSA. Anonymous numbskulls. She's proven her smarts; they've disproven theirs." More »

Sam Jumps to Defend LiLo From ... Joan Rivers

Hey, at least no one's throwing drinks

(Newser) - The bad news: Lindsay Lohan is going to jail. The good news: Her pined-after ex, Samantha Ronson, is back on her side. Ronson recently defended Lohan against a stream of hilarious—er, mean— tweets from Joan Rivers. Samples: “Lindsay Lohan said she wouldn't mind being under oath because she... More »

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