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Google unveils Web-free 'tweeting' in Egypt move

Google, in response to the Internet blockade in Egypt, said Monday that it had created a way to post messages to microblogging service Twitter by making telephone calls.

Technology / Internet

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Twitter 2011 ad revenue estimated at $150 million

Microblogging sensation Twitter is expected to rake in $150 million in advertising revenue this year, according to a study published Monday.

Technology / Internet

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Twitter opens Korean-language website

Microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday opened a Korean-language website in an attempt to expand further into a market that has grown almost tenfold in the past year.

Technology / Internet

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107 trillion emails sent last year: Pingdom

Internet users sent a total of 107 trillion emails last year, most of them spam, according to a Web monitoring service.

Technology / Internet

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2010's biggest stories influenced by celebrity tweets

Tweets from popular news organizations have a major influence on hot Twitter topics, but a Northwestern University analysis of the Top Twitter Trends in 2010 shows that celebrities, such as Adam Lambert and Conan O’Brien, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Twitter has 'no plans' to sell or go public

Twitter, which has fended off several buyers, intends to remain an independent company and is not considering going public at the moment, chief executive Dick Costolo said.

Technology / Business

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Twitter sets record as Japan rang in New Year

A flood of Japanese Tweets sent as the New Year arrived in Tokyo boosted global traffic within the network to a record 6,939 tweets per second (TPS), the microblogging site has reported.

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Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter, research finds

Microbloggers may think they're interacting in one big Twitterverse, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science find that regional slang and dialects are as evident in tweets as they are in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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Japan bio-scientists produce 'singing mouse'

Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had produced a mouse that tweets like a bird in a genetically engineered "evolution" which they hope will shed light on the origins of human language.

Biology / Biotechnology

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Cheeky tweeters use EU outreach experiment to mock

(AP) -- It was meant to be an effort to plug Twitter users into the conversation at the summit of European power. Instead it ended in very public embarrassment.

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Twitter valued in billions as popularity climbs

A fresh infusion of investment cash pushed Twitter's market value up to 3.7 billion dollars on Wednesday with the number of people using the microblogging service climbing to 175 million.

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The year in retweets: Oil spill and Justin Bieber

(AP) -- So many people love Justin Bieber. They love him so much, that this year Twitter changed the way it counts its most tweeted-about topics to effectively exclude him.

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Social networking sites can help prevent pandemics: experts

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter greatly help in detecting and containing the spread of pandemics, experts at a global health conference said.

Medicine & Health / Health

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Procter & Gamble moves from soap operas to tweets

(AP) -- Goodbye, "Guiding Light." Hello, YouTube.

Technology / Internet

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WikiLeaks: New release 7 times size of Iraq logs

(AP) -- WikiLeaks' next release will be seven times the size of the Iraq war logs, already the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history, the website said Monday.

Technology / Internet

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