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[Saddest Celebrity Tweet] Amanda Bynes Tweets About Her Dog Who Died

[Saddest Celebrity Tweet] Amanda Bynes Tweets About Her Dog Who Died

I have thick skin when it comes to writing about celebrity deaths, however as a dog lover I'm sad to report that Amanda Bynes' 4-month-old Pomeranian Little Angel has passed away. Little Angel had went missing yesterday and Bynes ... continue
Miley Cyrus Rejoins Twitter To Follow Charlie Sheen

Miley Cyrus Rejoins Twitter To Follow Charlie Sheen

It has been more than a year since Miley Cyrus famously quit using Twitter (October 2009) with more than 1.1 million followers and now she's back, but for reasons you may not have expected. Cyrus rejoined the social ... continue
[Moron Dept.] Have your tweets read to you by a stupid looking blob (Video)

[Moron Dept.] Have your tweets read to you by a stupid looking blob (Video)

Look I like Twitter. I spend a lot of time using the service and at one time I even developed a Windows client for it but at some point don't we have to get a grip and ... continue
Supertooth Bluetooth Speakerphone Tweets, Updates Facebook…Yawn.

Supertooth Bluetooth Speakerphone Tweets, Updates Facebook…Yawn.

Supertooth wants you to rethink the notion that visor clip-on bluetooth speaker phones should be left in 2008...2005? To make their point the company is pushing out three times more power than a standard clip-on option, while ... continue
Twitter turns five!

Twitter turns five!

Jesus Christ, how 'did' news spread virally and/or in real time before Twitter existed? Did we use message boards? It's difficult to imagine the pre-Twitterian era, but it's been a scant five years since Jack Dorsey sent the ... continue
Triumph for consistency: AP updates Stylebook to allow “email” unhyphenated

Triumph for consistency: AP updates Stylebook to allow “email” unhyphenated

A year after announcing the that the more commonly used "website" could replace the stuffier "Web site" per their widely adopted guidelines, the Associated Press has now updated the AP Stylebook to allow "email" to replace the ... continue
Jury selection gets the Facebook treatment

Jury selection gets the Facebook treatment

Picking juries is tough and there are companies out there making lots of money as jury consultants to lawyers. Then there is the increasing number of problems being faced by the courts over jury members disobeying judges ... continue
Twitter gets another $80 million courtesy of Andreessen’s group

Twitter gets another $80 million courtesy of Andreessen’s group

Kara Swisher from All Things D has the exclusive story that is just breaking about Twitter getting another huge investment from Andreessen Horowitz group to the tune of $80 million. Sources said that the firm made the move ... continue
Twitter Awards? Seriously?

Twitter Awards? Seriously?

Awards are for the most part just a way to boost already inflated egos and generally a pointless to show just how important you are - especially when it comes to the new so-called social media awards. sure ... continue
Kenneth Cole’s social media person gives inadvertent lesson on how to suck at Twitter

Kenneth Cole’s social media person gives inadvertent lesson on how to suck at Twitter

Making use of unrelated trending topics on Twitter to promote your business or personal tweets is behavior anyone with any Twitter courtesy knows to be spammy. Using Twitter to shamelessly self-promote? That's not really too looked down upon, ... continue
Study finds people tweet in geographical accents

Study finds people tweet in geographical accents

A study of linguistic patterns among Twitter users has revealed that people in different areas have distinctly identifiable quirks that can be used to determine their geographical region. Apparently, "suttin" often stands in for "something" among New York ... continue
Wow, Twitter must be beta testing a spine

Wow, Twitter must be beta testing a spine

The title of this posts was inspired by an excellent post over at Threat Level by Ryan Singel but is says exactly what my thoughts were when I first read a few days ago that Twitter went ... continue
[Video] Josh Groban sings Kanye West’s tweets

[Video] Josh Groban sings Kanye West’s tweets

Poor Kanye- first everyone started putting "Liz Lemon" in front of his tweets and re-tweeting them with a hashtag saying "Kanye West is Tracy Jordan," and now Josh Groban has gone and sung his most silly tweets ... continue
Newark Mayor uses Twitter to great effect during epic snowstorm and aftermath

Newark Mayor uses Twitter to great effect during epic snowstorm and aftermath

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, is pretty much the awesomest mayor on the whole entire Eastern seaboard and maybe in the whole world. I used to live in Newark, but I only lasted there for like two ... continue
Twitter awash in reports of Aretha Franklin’s death

Twitter awash in reports of Aretha Franklin’s death

Ailing soul singer Aretha Franklin, she of the satellite-sized hat, has been treated recently for the notoriously rough pancreatic cancer. Twitter rumors have abounded that the 68-year-old songstress had succumbed to the illness, and the tale gained traction ... continue
Twitter: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From 2010

Twitter: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From 2010

With Twitter it is generally a case of either loving the service or thinking it is the stupidest thing to come along. For those who use Twitter the past year has been an interesting one with more ... continue
England’s Lord Chief Justice says reporter twittering in court is okay

England’s Lord Chief Justice says reporter twittering in court is okay

This is an interesting move and guidance by the Lord Chief Justice of England when it comes to the use of Twitter during active court proceedings. Media organizations and journalists will first have to apply for permission to ... continue
NPH puts Eric Braeden on Twitter blast for backing out of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ role

NPH puts Eric Braeden on Twitter blast for backing out of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ role

Neil Patrick Harris shared his unvarnished opinions on actor Eric Braeden with his million plus Twitter followers after Braeden unkindly declined to fulfill a promise to appear on NPH-starring sitcom How I Met Your Mother. NPH took to ... continue
Keith Olbermann driven off Twitter by feminist outrage

Keith Olbermann driven off Twitter by feminist outrage

As Julian Assange remained jailed without charges in Britain awaiting a bail hearing this, the popular narrative regarding Wikileaks shifted massively. While the previous week centered more on censorship and (in case you forgot) the content of the ... continue
Gowalla hooks up with Foursquare, Facebook Places

Gowalla hooks up with Foursquare, Facebook Places

Gowalla announced an upgrade to their service today, integrating the app with its two biggest competitors. Also on the docket is integration with Twitter and Tumblr, but Gowalla 3 is only available for iPhone until January. (iPad, Blackberry ... continue
Is your Member of Congress one of the top 100 influential Tweeters?

Is your Member of Congress one of the top 100 influential Tweeters?

Not that I really care but then I'm not an American or that interested in politicians but for those of you who are and have gotten sucked into this whole social media thing Fast Company has compiled ... continue
Twitter May Take On Foursquare With New Twitter Places

Twitter May Take On Foursquare With New Twitter Places

Twitter may be preparing to expand its location sharing services to take on Foursquare, at least according to a screen shot doing the rounds. The shot (above) shows an expanded Twitter Places service, with the ability to check-in ... continue