Euronews
| Nov 4, 2012
Malicious "Twitter bombs" packed with false information about a candidate could exert a mighty sway on the presidential election at the last possible moment, some observers fear. The lightning speed and contagion of just-the-right social networkin...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Oct 4, 2012
This one-minute montage of highlights from the first US election television debate is based on the subjects most discussed on Twitter, ranging from health care to Sesame Street's Big Bird. With more than 10 million tweets sent during the 90-minu...
Newsy
| Oct 4, 2012
Social media blew up after Mitt Romney told Jim Lehrer, although he loves Big Bird, he plans to cut subsidies to PBS.
LinkAsia
| Sep 7, 2012
The disappearance of the popular Pakistani Twitter user @MajorlyProfound has sparked a massive outcry. Contributor Wajahat S. Khan reports on the case of Pakistan's 'darkest and perhaps most subversive' Twitter user, and what it means for dissent ...
LinkAsia
| Aug 31, 2012
South Koreans took to Twitter to voice their opinions on the billion US dollar ruling against Samsung. Some were critical of Samsung's call for a patriotic boycott of Apple products, admonishing the company to refocus on innovation. Footage from R...
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 28, 2012
Freedom of speech campaigners in the UK are celebrating after a High Court ruling regarding the "Twitter Joke Trial". The court quashed the conviction of a British man, Paul Chambers, who tweeted he would blow an airport sky high if his flig...
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 26, 2012
Triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou has been expelled from the Greek Olympic team after she tweeted a comment about the number of African immigrants in Greece.
MEMRI TV
| May 25, 2012
A Saudi woman films her ordeal as she is harassed by Saudi Arabia's religious police for wearing nail polish in a shopping mall. She refuses to comply with an order from the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) ...
Univision News
| May 9, 2012
During and after Mexico's Presidential debate at least 260 Twitter accounts simultaneously posted the same identical twitter messages in favor of Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto. Is his campaign coordinating and financing ...
— Dec 20, 2011 at 07:02 pm
...or human rights issues are also blocked. Such a scenario, we are sure of, must be Kapil Sibal’s nightmare. So is the fabulously rich House of Sa...
— Jan 1, 2012 at 03:31 am
— Jun 21, 2012 at 11:38 pm
...- have created accounts for well known jihadist figures including the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the late American-Yemeni cleric, An...
— Nov 2, 2012 at 07:44 am
Twitter
is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows
users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long)
via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website, or an
application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by
San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. In April 2007, Obvious, LLC spun off the service as a separate entity under the name Twitter, Inc. with Jack Dorsey as CEO.
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