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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Plane Crash Tweets Help Twitter Overtake Digg 

Microblogging site gets the edge in market share for first time since launch

Jan 21, 09 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Twitter traffic has overtaken Digg for the first time since the microblogging site's launch, Hitwise reports. The newcomer edged up to #84 last week—one spot above Digg—after the US Airways crash spawned a huge number of updates. A photo of the scene taken by a Twitter user on... More »

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Internet • Digg • website • web traffic • Twitter • Hudson crash

DC Cell Phone Calls:
Maybe We Can

Inauguration throngs threaten to overwhelm networks

Jan 19, 09 3:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Throngs of people at the inauguration threaten to overwhelm the cell phone system with a massive number of calls, texts, tweets and emails, reports the New York Times. Major cell phone companies are scrambling to upgrade and add capacity, but no one knows how the system will respond to the... More »

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cell phones • Verizon • Sprint • Twitter • President Obama • Inauguration Day • uplinks • capacity • e-mails • Cellular Communications and Internet Association

Obama Is Update, Reboot
for Presidency's Software

Dem will use internet to reach out to, get advice from voters

Jan 18, 09 7:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama is poised to be, by far, the most wired president ever, reports CNN. With more than a million MySpace friends, 3.7 million Facebook pals, and online access to more than 13 million voters, Obama invented a new media model and will be able to communicate in ways... More »

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social networking • YouTube • MySpace • White House • Facebook • voters • computer • Twitter

 Hacker Tweaks Twitter Celebs 


Britney, Obama among the victims of hacker targeting high-profile accounts

Jan 6, 09 4:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama, Britney Spears and CNN's Rick Sanchez were among dozens of people whose Twitter accounts were hijacked yesterday by a hacker, CNET reports. The hacker, who exploited the site's support tools to gain access, made fake updates to several accounts—including references to private parts and drug use—before... More »

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hacker • celebrity • phishing • hacking • Twitter

Media Woes Spread at the Speed of Twitter

Site posts updates on industry firings and
(less often) hirings

Dec 15, 08 11:47 AM CST
(Newser) - The rapid shrinking of the media industry is generating enough news to have a Twitter feed all to itself. The "Themediaisdying" feed, started by a PR firm employee, covers hirings, layoffs, and circulation changes in 140 characters or less, the New York Times reports. More »

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social networking • media • blogging • Twitter • newspaper industry

Who Needs CNN?

Citizen journalists capture Mumbai story without bureaucratic headaches

Nov 30, 08 9:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Witnesses of the Mumbai terror attacks didn’t wait for CNN to get information: They captured it themselves, the New York Times reports, the latest example of citizen journalists using technology to put themselves on the frontlines of news. “I felt I had a responsibility to share my view... More »

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India • Chabad Lubavitch • Mumbai • terrorist attack • Twitter • Citizen journalism • rabbi

Price Dispute Sinks TwitFace Merger Talks

Twitter questions value of $500M stock offer
from Facebook

Nov 25, 08 2:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Merger talks between Facebook and popular newcomer Twitter have ended without a deal, reports All Things Digital. Twitter wasn't satisfied with Facebook's offer of $500 million in stock, apparently concerned that the stock's valuation was too high, say insiders. Twitter also had concerns about how the two would integrate, and... More »

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social networking • mergers and acquisitions • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • merger • Twitter

Startups Seek Ways Around Venture Capital

Twitter, others explore other revenue streams to avoid investors' raised demands

Nov 12, 08 4:25 PM CST
(Newser) - While Wall Street investors have taken advantage of the tanking economy to nab low-priced stocks, Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists have likewise enjoyed a buyer’s market, demanding larger ownership stakes in startup outfits in exchange for their coveted funds. Companies like Twitter—initially funded with $22 million in venture... More »

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Silicon Valley • investors • recession • venture capital • startup • venture capitalists • economy • Twitter • financial crisis

 Twitter Turns Up the Volume 

More people, businesses are getting in on micro-blogging

Oct 27, 08 10:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter, a micro-blogging service where users post what they’re up to in 140 characters or less, once thought the province of the self-absorbed, has been growing drastically as friends, businesses, and even services like fire departments find ways to make “tweeting” work for them, the Wall Street Journal... More »

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social networking • Internet • blogging • Twitter

ANALYSIS

 No, Blogging Isn't Dead 

Tools like Twitter complement, rather than replace, traditional blogging, argues blogger

Oct 23, 08 8:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - A recent Wired magazine article argued that blogging is out, that mainstream media have taken the practice over, and one-time bloggers have moved on to social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. Not so, responds Allyson Kapin on Fast Company. Witness the 175,000 new blogs created daily and... More »

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social networking • blogosphere • Facebook • blogging • Flickr • Twitter

 Brit Jumps Onto 
 Twitter Bandwagon 

Pop star promises to take fans where no paparazzi can with new site, micro-blog

Oct 20, 08 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The blogosphere is, ahem, atwitter over Britney Spears’ new Web site and micro-blogging account. The pop star promises to provide fans the inside scoop via britneyspears.com and Twitter, a social-networking site allows users to post constant updates. “I’d like to welcome Britney Spears to our world,”... More »

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social networking • blogosphere • Britney Spears • blogging • Twitter

 Twitter Tries to Get Real, 
 Trades In CEO

Micro-blogging pioneer with plenty of buzz but no revenue swaps execs

Oct 17, 08 6:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter has shunted CEO Jack Dorsey into the chairman's role and given his job to current chairman and co-founder Evan Williams, CNET reports. The micro-blogging site has grown fast since launching last year and has been surrounded by plenty of buzz—but while managers say things are right on track,... More »

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technology • social networking • Web 2.0 • blogging • business models • Twitter

Time Travel: Google Shows You the Web in 2001

Site boasted of indexing 1.3B pages (it's 8B now) ... and YouTube wasn't yet one

Oct 1, 08 2:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - To honor its 10th birthday, Google put up a search engine that reflects the web in 2001, TechCrunch reports. Other than the Yahoo-esque exclamation point in Google’s logo, the search engine has not changed that much since—but searches show the web, and the world, have:
  • "iPod"
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Google • Internet • LeBron James • David Ortiz • iPod • McCain Feingold • Twitter

AOL Brings in Outside Help With Homepage Redesign

Gmail, Facebook will be accessible from firm's web portal

Sep 10, 08 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - AOL is overhauling its portal page, incorporating third-party email services and social-networking sites into AOL.com, paidContent reports. The redesigned site allows users to perform global status updates, so a message sent from AOL would show up on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and more; users will also be able to view... More »

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social networking • Internet • AOL • MySpace • Facebook • Gmail • Bebo • Yahoo Mail • web portal • Twitter

Microblogging
Creates World
of 'Ambient
Awareness'

Experts compare it to physical closeness

Sep 6, 08 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mini-missives that friends post on websites like Twitter create what experts call "ambient awareness"—a form of contact akin to picking up a friend's body language or stray remarks. Alone they add up to little, "but taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a... More »

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social networking • Web 2.0 • Facebook • Flickr • Twitter • Loopt

ANALYSIS

 Twitter Outgrows 
 Narcissistic Phase 

From police updates to serializing novel, aficionados  find innovative new uses

Sep 4, 08 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don't write off Twitter as a mere time-wasting self-promotion toy, David Chartier writes in Ars Technica. Users have adapted the microblogging tool to business, government, and even art, pushing 140-character posts beyond "what I had for lunch today." Some innovative Twitter accounts include Comcast, which tracks customer service... More »

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technology • social networking • Comcast • Web 2.0 • Business trends • Twitter

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Twitter Helps Chinese Blogger Tell His Story

Citizen journalist is forced to leave Beijing, but he plans to return

Aug 14, 08 8:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter gets a bad rap for its often less-than-substantive musings, but every now and then the service proves its "true potential" as an Internet tool, writes Mathew Ingram in the Toronto Globe and Mail. Case in point: When a Chinese citizen journalist recently traveled to Beijing, the authorities hustled... More »

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China • Internet • censorship • Beijing • 2008 Beijing Olympics • blogger • Twitter

GLOSSIES

Twitter Doesn't Sweat the
Profit Margin

Microblogging site puts effort in infrastructure, not its biz model

Aug 5, 08 8:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter, a unique blogging service that lets its users update every minute detail of their day using a computer or cellphone, is steadily growing in popularity, but founder Biz Stone isn't worried about making money from the site yet. With millions in venture capital stored up, Stone is more focused... More »

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social networking • Internet • website • Twitter • Biz Stone

New Site Lets Microbloggers Post Short Videos

'12 Seconds' aims to do for video what Twitter did for sentences: shorten

Jul 24, 08 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sick of spreading your message by text alone on sites such as Twitter, but not ready to actually talk to your friends face to face? Worry not: a new site, “12 Seconds,” allows you to post video updates from home or on your mobile device, Mashable reports. The... More »

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social networking • blogging • digital camera • web video • mobile devices • Twitter

Web Crashes Take Bigger Toll, Fuel Bigger Outrages

One engineer has a site to check whether favorite sites are actually down

Jul 5, 08 7:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - A crashing website once was no big deal, but now it can cost a company millions and send customers into fits of rage. In a sign of the times, one San Francisco web engineer has started downforeveryoneorjustme.com, allowing visitors to see whether a site is down or if it's... More »

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Internet • website • computer servers • Amazon • Twitter

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