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Over at Twitter there is a new money maker in which those with a large following are sending advertisements to their followers. The new advertising scheme is being use by celebrities, bloggers and others on Twitter who are allowing advertisers to send to their personal contacts on social networks advertising.
According to a recent Times news [...]

Twitter is experimenting with what it calls Lists, which currently is in beta testing. The Lists feature will allow users to group together that you follow and will allow others to follow the same group. If anything, this in itself will be a handy time saver.
A news release also states:
Setting up a list is simple. [...]

Twitter has a new spam program it is introducing that it hopes will stop spammers in their tracks. Twitter users will be able to report sites and followers they suspect are spamming and can opt out from contact with the spammer. Though the program won’t actually close down a spamming follower, it will hopefully protect [...]

Over at Twitter their blog states they they are in the process of offering a feature call ‘List’ for all account users. The new feature will allow users to share groups with other Twitter users. According to the blog article it also states that:
Lists are public by default (but can be made private) and the [...]

Over at the Washington Post it appears that one of their editors got himself into a pickle when he posted his opinion to friends and associates on Twitter. The Tweets covered some of the political hot topics that currently are in the news, including being covered by the Washington Post. So now the newspaper has [...]

Over at Tweet Grade you can enter in your Twitter user name and receive a letter grade of how you are influencing the social networking site. The site states the following:

Welcome to TweetGrade!
Find somebody on Twitter that you want to follow but aren’t sure if they’re worth your valuable ‘follow’? Or just want to get [...]

The social networking site MySpace has announced that both MySpace & Twitter users will be able to sync their status. This will allow users of both social networking sites to allow friends and followers to interact with the content they post Web-wide. In a statement from the Senior Product Manager of MySpace, Sharon Nguyen, [...]

Want to make a call to another Twitter user using your landline or cell phone? Well Twitter is currently beta testing JAJAH@Call, which will allow two-minute VoIP calls. The beta version is only by invitation, so you need to check your account to see if you received an invitation or not.
This Tweet blurb further states:

Putting [...]

From the Twitter Blog:

Denial of Service Attack
On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. [...]

Tweeting could get you a cheap seat on one of JetBlue or United flights and may fill up those seats that otherwise would go empty. Both airlines are trying what they call ‘cheeps’ to fill those empty seats at bargain pricing. The first ‘cheep’ seat was advertised by JetBlue on July 6th when they offered [...]

AT&T has been Twitting about their latest offers for getting a refurbished Apple iPhone 3G with 8GB for only $49.00 after discount. The iPhone can be had at this price after signing up for a 2 year commitment with the company.
AT&T describes their refurbished devices as:
“Refurbished phones are previously owned devices that have been unused [...]

Do you love to Tweet? Well make sure your Tweets don’t involve an apartment complex in Chicago. It seems that Amanda Bonnen posted a Tweet about her living with mold in a previous apartment she lived in that has drawn the ire of the company that manages the complex. The company, Horizon Group Management LLC, [...]

Celebrities are finding it hard to know who is who on Facebook. Some are complaining that they are not able to distinguish friends from people who are just plain bored with their lives. Because of this some are making the switch to Twitter.
In a recent article it states that::
After Bill Gates recently admitted that he [...]

At first it seemed that the hacking of Twitter in which some 300+ documents were stolen, could be blamed for by lax security in the cloud. Twitter was storing their sensitive data using Google apps., and it seemed that Google was to blame for the theft. But as more information is coming to light, it [...]

Over at TechCrunch they have their hands on some 300 documents that were allegedly stolen from Twitter and Twitter employees. A hacker known only as ‘Hacker Croll’ sent a zip file containing the documents to TechCrunch, which are going to publish some of the documents that they feel is newsworthy.
On their site they also state:
Let’s [...]

I read an interesting article which covered what Steve Ballmer had said about Google and their new Chrome operating system. The interview took place at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans and the following sentence caught my eye:
As for Microsoft’s own plans, Ballmer said the company did not see a need for a [...]

Google has taken to Twitter like the rest of the world and currently has over 40 Twitter accounts. The list of accounts seems to cover all aspects of Google and will continue to grow over time. On the Google blog site they state the following:
Like lots of you, we’ve been drawn into Twitter this year. [...]

This is a great way to record your screen and voice at the click of a button. This simple to use software works with all major operating systems and popular browsers. It is also optimized to work with your Twitter account which is a nice touch. But here is the best part. It is 100% [...]

No one has actually used these words at the Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference yesterday, but one could read between the lines. News Corp CEO and media mogul Rupert Murdoch did state he would not be buying Twitter. Why would he? He bought MySpace for a whopping $580 million back in 2005, and so [...]

I just happened to stumble onto an article by Mark Cuban and his take why everything that is free will eventually fail. He makes mention of some of the web’s favorite freebies such as Twitter, Facebook, and also Google. His theory is that there is what are called “Black Swans” who will have a better [...]