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'Typing Difficxult': Climber Tweets From Everest

Irish mountaineer expected to summit today

(Newser) - He calls it the "highest blog in the world": Gavin Bate, an Irish mountain climber, has been scaling Mount Everest for the past month, sending 140-character updates on his progress via Twitter. Today he's expected to reach the summit, where he'll try to post several sponsored tweets to raise...

Twitterers Aren't Sticking With It
 Twitterers Aren't 
 Sticking With It 
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Twitterers Aren't Sticking With It

High proportion of Twitter quittersi mean 'Oprah effect' is overstated

(Newser) - Twitter's sign-up figures are skyrocketing but the site's reach will remain limited to less than a tenth of online consumers unless it can reduce the proportion of quitters, Neilsen exec David Martin tells AdAge. Over 60% of people who get a Twitter account soon abandon the service, according to Neilsen...

No, Kutcher's KO of CNN Is Not a Win for the Little Guy

What Kutcher's win over CNN really means

(Newser) - Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter triumph over CNN was a win for the little guy, a new-media David bringing an old-media Goliath to its knees, right? Hardly, Simon Dumenco writes for Advertising Age. Kutcher’s no little guy. He’s a TV/movie star, former model, and reality-TV producer. The contest was...

Trudeau Mocks Journos for Overtwittering

Character 'Roland Hedley' has 2,900 followers

(Newser) - Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has been lampooning TV journalists for decades in Doonesbury, so it’s natural he would satirize their latest folly: excessive Twittering. Roland Hedley, Trudeau’s fictitious TV journo, has become an avid Twitter user both in print and in the real world, where @Roland_Hedley boasts 2,900...

Oprah Tweets, 103K Follow
 Oprah Tweets, 103K Follow 

Oprah Tweets, 103K Follow

(Newser) - Still learning the ropes of microblogging, Oprah Winfrey posted her first tweet this morning, the Chicago Tribune reports. In her first tweet—“HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY”—she committed the Twitter faux pas of writing in all caps and using the...

NYC Church Twitters Good Friday Ritual

Trinity Wall Street brings Good Friday online

(Newser) - A New York church is using Twitter to bring observance of Good Friday into the social-networking age, CNET reports. Trinity Wall Street is posting the Passion, 140-character piece by 140-character piece, from a set of accounts representing the characters in the story. The church already encourages the use of video...

Find a New Job, 140 Characters at a Time

Site can be used for targeted, effective networking

(Newser) - If you’re unemployed, the right attention on Twitter could land you your next position. Forbes offers pointers on using the micro-blogging site for networking:
  • Make sure your account name contains something about your profession, so your feed shows up when people search associated topics.
  • Search for industry leaders and
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Google Near Deal to Acquire Twitter: Insiders

Two insiders put price well above $250 million

(Newser) - Google is in the last stages of acquiring Twitter for a price well above the microblogging site's recent $250 million valuation, reports industry blog TechCrunch, citing anonymous sources. Twitter recently rejected a $500 million offer from Facebook—although much of that price was in stock that may be overvalued. A...

Cowell Not a Fan of Celeb Twittering

'Why would you want to?' he asks on the air

(Newser) - Always one to judge, Simon Cowell is going after fellow celebrities who are hooked on Twitter, the Daily Telegraph reports. "It's like phoning someone randomly whose number you don't even have and saying: 'Hi, it's Simon, I went out with my family this weekend,'" he said. But maybe...

Bucks Forward Takes Heat for Mid-Game Tweet

Team discourages posts during halftime

(Newser) - Charlie Villanueva’s zeal for micro-blogging has him in trouble with the Milwaukee Bucks, who deemed the forward’s half-time locker room tweet during Sunday’s Buck-Celtics game to be unsportsmanlike conduct, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. “We made a point to address Charlie and the team that it’...

Stephanopoulos Lands McCain for 'Twitterview'

(Newser) - ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is taking the next step with Twitter, he writes in his blog, landing Sen. John McCain for a 140-characters-at-a-time “Twitterview” on Tuesday. Stephanopoulos is also encouraging readers to send him questions for the Republican via the microblogging format that’s recently become all the rage...

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