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Facebook goes and ruins everything

Sep 21, 2011
I don't know about your Facebook feed this morning but mine is filled with people complaining about the new redesign. At least I think they are --...

Qwikster dude tries to monetize his good fortune

Sep 20, 2011
Jason Castillo, the person who apparently owns the @Qwikster Twitter handle, is trying to make some cash off the name. Qwikster is, of course, the...

Commercials are coming to Twitter

Sep 14, 2011
Well, commercial tweets anyway. Twitter is expanding its paid tweets program and will begin inserting commercial messages in your feed. So you'll...

Twitter has 200 million users! Twitter has 100 million users!

Sep 9, 2011
Both are kind of correct. Twitter, which has been historically stingy about sharing statistics, said in a blog post yesterday that the service has...

MST3K's Bill Corbett dramatically reads from his fake Twitter account

Sep 7, 2011
I don't know. Is that the best headline. Rifftrax.com's Bill Corbett? And it's his real Twitter account, I guess, it's just that it's written in a...

Come on, @Irene

Aug 29, 2011
Twitter user Irene Tien, who owns the Twitter handle @Irene, suddenly found herself a lot more famous than she expected, due to the storm. The real...

British government trying to figure out social media

Aug 26, 2011
The phrase "kill the messenger" comes to mind. There was a big meeting on Thursday in London between British officials and representatives of...

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