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Twitter Passes 10B Tweets

Milestone comes just 4 months after No. 5B

(Newser) - Just four months after it hit 5 billion, Twitter passed the 10 billion-tweet mark this evening. That’s according to Gigatweet , which, in the best high-volume-times tradition of the beast it tracks, went down around the milestone. Alas, Mashable reports, a protected user gave the world No. 10,000,000,... More »

Robert Byrd Now Longest-Serving Legislator Ever

By the senator's count, his career spanned 20,774 days

(AP) - West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd has become the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history, a milestone to be marked today with a Senate resolution. "I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 days," Byrd said, adding that he was sorry his late wife... More »

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