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 5 Twitter Superstars 
 You Don't Know 

These unknowns have more followers than Stephen Colbert, Snoop Dogg

Oct 26, 09 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton may be famous for being famous, but there are at least five Twitter users with more followers than her—even though most people wouldn’t recognize them on the street. CNN runs down five of the top 200 Twitter users, each with more than 1.2 million followers,... More »

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social networking • John Dickerson • Twitter • Jay-ZTV

Microsoft's
Bing Teams
With Twitter

It hopes to gain edge over Google in social networking

Oct 21, 09 4:54 PM CDT
(AP) - Microsoft has picked up a new weapon in its Internet search duel with Google—full access to Twitter's communications hotbed. The partnership announced today represents a coup for Microsoft as it tries to spice up its Internet search engine, Bing, in its long-running attempts to lure traffic from Google. A... More »

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social networking • Google • Microsoft • search engine • Twitter • Bing

OPINION

Photo Doesn't Make Me a Slut: Meghan McCain

Overreaction part of 'infuriating' double standard on racy pix

Oct 16, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain can’t believe the “immediate and nasty overreaction” to her post of a “funny and silly” self-portrait. She admits that posting a photo showing off her cleavage “is not the smartest thing I have ever done. But it’s just not worth the drama it... More »

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Jeff Flake • body image • Aaron Schock • Meghan McCain • breasts • Twitter • photos • Twitpic • Meghan McCain Twitter

 Facebook 
 Refuseniks 
 Still Sorta 
 Use It 

They object in principle but end up using it by proxy

Oct 15, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post today profiles an increasingly rare breed: people in their 20s and 30s who don't use Facebook or other such sites. And though the “refuseniks” interviewed have different rationales—privacy, “morals and beliefs,” being “old-school in the personal touch way,” many share something... More »

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social networking • Internet • MySpace • Facebook • online privacy • communication • Twitter • Luddite

 Meghan 
 McCain 
 Gets Racy 
 on Twitter 

Guess what part of that picture got everyone's attention? Hint: Not the book

Oct 15, 09 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain’s latest “controversy” is over a picture of herself—one particular part of herself being more prominent than anything else—she posted on Twitter last night. The photo (at left) is being alternately slammed and defended by commenters, the Detroit Free Press reports. Arguably the best... More »

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Meghan McCain • breasts • Twitter • Meghan McCain Twitter

 GOP Takes Down 
 Tweet Linking 
 Pelosi, Hitler 

Link to doctored video from NRCC 'an error,' pulled after DCCC outrage

Oct 14, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Turns out linking a genocidal dictator with the speaker of the House might be a little over the top, as the National Republican Congressional Committee found itself today taking down a tweet with a link to a video comparing Nancy Pelosi to Adolf Hitler. A broadside from the Democratic Congressional... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • social networking • House of Representatives • Adolf Hitler • John Boehner • NRCC • DCCC • National Republican Congressional Committee • Twitter • Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee • tweet • socialized medicine • Nazi Germany





 Twitter Gets Psychic  
 With 'Tweance' 

With all the celebrities who died this year, the pickings will be ripe

Oct 13, 09 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - It was only a matter of time before even the dead celebrities found a way to overshare on Twitter. The microblogging site will play host to the world’s first online séance—dubbed the “Tweance”—the day before Halloween, the Sun reports. More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Twitter • psychic • Jade Goody • celebrity death

UK Gags Guardian, but
Twitter Airs Suppressed Story

Social media site explodes with toxic waste scandal

Oct 13, 09 6:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guardian has been slapped with an unprecedented gag order forbidding it from reporting on a question in the British parliament, as well as who asked the question and why it's being gagged. The paper says constitutional rights are being infringed upon and it's already suing—but meanwhile, the suppressed... More »

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United Kingdom • censorship • toxic waste • Ivory Coast • Twitter • social media • Guardian • Trafigura

TWITTER HOAX DEPT.

 No, Zach Braff Is Not Dead 

Publicist denies Twitter-spread 'report' that actor had committed suicide

Oct 12, 09 7:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - From the don’t-believe-everything-you-see-on-Twitter department: Actor Zach Braff is in fact not dead, despite a fast-spreading rumor to the contrary. “He’s alive. It’s just another hoax,” an ABC rep says tonight of the Scrubs star, 34. Earlier in the day, Twitter was humming over a link... More »

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entertainment • ABC • Internet hoax • Scrubs • Zach Braff • Twitter • celebrity suicide

OPINION

Facebook, Twitter Will Kill Email ... Maybe

Social networking sites have their place, but
so does predecessor

Oct 12, 09 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Email’s had a good run, but its day is done, according to Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal. Email is an outdated form of communication, better suited to a time when we logged online and off, she argues. Now that we’re always connected, Twitter and Facebook... More »

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social networking • Internet • email • Facebook • Twitter • e-mails

Celebs Bitch Away on Twitter—at Their Peril

More and more, stars are using social networking to rant about other stars

Oct 12, 09 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thanks to Twitter, celebrities are getting candid and crass in public: The social networking site offers “a kind of faceless anonymity,” one editor tells the Los Angeles Times, leading stars—who might otherwise hide behind a publicist—to tweet their dirty laundry for all the world to... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • feud • Perez Hilton • Demi Moore • Ryan Seacrest • Spencer Pratt • Twitter

OPINION

 Soundbite Nation: 
 Tweet First, Think Later 

Social media leading to 'general derangement': Dumenco

Oct 12, 09 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Time was, only politicians were expected to speak in soundbites, but these days, writes Simon Dumenco in Advertising Age, "tens of millions of us do it as a matter of course." Twitter and other social media have made us all into reaction machines, with errors and exaggerations cropping... More »

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Twitter • social media • Neda • Simon Dumenco





 Taylor: Heart Surgery 
 'Went Off Perfectly' 

Actress, 77, tweets that 'it's like having a brand new ticker'

Oct 8, 09 8:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor’s heart surgery today “went off perfectly,” she writes on Twitter. “It’s like having a brand new ticker.” The actress, 77, says the procedure was to repair a “leaky valve,” and ripped media reports that she has diabetes as “a... More »

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media • Elizabeth Taylor • heart surgery • Twitter

OPINION

Tweeting About Miscarriage
Hits New Twitter Low

'I'm in a board meeting, having a miscarriage' Tweet rattles columnist

Oct 7, 09 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ok, that's w-a-a-y too much information, and it's high time that sharing-too-much Twitterers zip it, complains columnist Kathleen Parker. Tweets from a working woman about her miscarriage in the middle of a business meeting hit a new low even for the brashest tweeters, Parker grouses in the Washington Post.... More »

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abortion • Twitter • tweet

 Elizabeth Taylor 
 to Have Heart Surgery 

Actress says procedure will fix a leaky valve without open heart surgery

Oct 6, 09 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor will soon undergo heart surgery, she announced on Twitter today. “Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart,” the 77-year-old actress posted this afternoon, notes ... More »

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Elizabeth Taylor • heart surgery • Twitter • actress

'God told me I am needed up there'

 Tila Tequila 
 Threatens 
 Suicide 
 via Twitter 

Reality TV star's tweets disturb followers

Oct 6, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Famous-for-being-famous Tila Tequila threatened suicide yesterday on Twitter, claiming a friend caught her just before ending her life, and that she will go through with it in two weeks. “No one can stop me,” she posted. In a subsequent tweet, she blamed the idea on God needing her... More »

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entertainment • suicide • celebrity • Twitter • Tila Tequila

Hung Star Gets Waiter Fired
for Twittering About Tip

Actress complains to management after stiffing worker

Oct 6, 09 3:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Beverly Hills waiter is looking for a new job after tweeting about Hung actress Jane Adams skipping out on a bill. Adams said she was going to her car to get her checkbook, then sent a rep the next day with payment for lunch—minus tip, the waiter twittered.... More »

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social networking • Beverly Hills • Twitter • waiter • actress • Jane Adams

FTC Warns Bloggers on 'Reviewing' Freebies

New media critics must come clean or risk fine

Oct 5, 09 4:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bloggers, Tweeters, and Facebookers who receive payments or free products from companies and in turn hype or review them—without mentioning the arrangement—could be on the hook for $11,000 in FTC fines. The commission’s new regulations offer clear guidelines on the responsibilities of reviewers working in new... More »

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Facebook • FTC • reviews • blogger • endorsement • product placement • Twitter

(Newser) - Movie companies aren't sure yet how big the Twitter effect is in making or breaking films—a spate of negative tweets are reputed to have killed Bruno after a strong opening over the summer—but they're leaving as little as possible to chance. It's the hot new "campaign-management tool,... More »

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marketing • buzz • movie industry • Twitter • Bruno • movie studio • District 9 • Julie & Julia

 Angelou Alive, 
 Well, Despite 
 Reports 

TMZ reports poet's illness, Twitterers add 'RIP'

Oct 5, 09 1:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Contrary to reports by TMZ and scores of Tweets and re-Tweets, Maya Angelou is alive and well. The gossip site reported over the weekend that the poet missed a Los Angeles awards show because she had been hospitalized. In fact, she hadn't been invited to the presentation. The mix-up exhibited... More »

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social networking • literature • TMZ • poetry • Maya Angelou • Twitter

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