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Rahm Has a Potty-Mouthed Twitter Impersonator

And the feed is way more popular than the real thing

(Newser) - A fake Twitter feed that has fun with Rahm Emanuel's fluency in f-bombs is taking off. The feed @MayorEmanuel has more than 26,000 followers, triple the number of the Chicago candidate's real feed . Even Emanuel says he checks in, and the tweets usually make him smile, notes the Huffington...

Journalist Nir Rosen Writes Tasteless Tweet About Lara Logan
Journo: Lara Logan Assault
Would Have Been Funny If...
awful tweets
Feb 16, 2011 11:17 AM CST

Journo: Lara Logan Assault Would Have Been Funny If...

...it happened to Anderson Cooper, Nir Rosen tweets

(Newser) - A journalist who's written on foreign policy for the New Yorker, Time, and the New York Times is under fire after making light of Lara Logan's assault in Egypt, and has now resigned his position as an NYU fellow, the National Review notes. Nir Rosen, who also once contributed footage...

Feds Demand Twitter Info on 3 Linked to WikiLeaks

How protected are tweets?

(Newser) - The feds have obtained a court order to grab Twitter account details from three tweeters—including a member of Iceland's parliament—linked to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The three—who also include a Dutch hacker and a US computer programmer—are blasting the order as an invasion of privacy. "...

Google, Facebook Eye Twitter, Price Tag: $10B

Social network valuations head to the sky

(Newser) - Facebook and Google are among the companies circling Twitter and considering a colossal buyout deal, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . The talks haven't gone anywhere yet, but the price under discussion is somewhere between $8 billion and $10 billion—roughly 100 times the amount of revenue Twitter, which lost...

Syria Lifts 5-Year Facebook, YouTube Ban

'Appeasement' measure dumps 5-year shut-down

(Newser) - Syrian authorities are lifting a 5-year-old ban on Facebook, YouTube and other Internet sites in a move seen as an attempt to appease the public and stave off the kind unrest rocking Egypt. The country's state-owned ISP is in the process of unblocking sites including Twitter and Blogspot, although Wikipedia...

Fashion Label Kenneth Cole Misfires With Egypt Tweet

It hijacks Cairo hashtag to promote its new spring line

(Newser) - And the day's award for corporate insensitivity goes to: Kenneth Cole. The high-end fashion label used the #Cairo hashtag—which the rest of the world is using to follow the protests— to get some publicity for its spring collection. "Millions are in uproar in #Cairo," read the now-deleted...

Egypt Shutting Down Cell Phone Networks

But Google's helping people get around Internet blocks

(Newser) - Egypt is again targeting communication networks ahead of a million-man protest planned today. Mobile phone networks will be shut down over the next few hours, CNN reports. Google has announced on its official blog that it has set up a "speak-to-tweet" service to help Egyptians get around Internet blocks....

Tunisia's Revolution, as Told Via Twitter

Dissident Slim Amamou tweeted all the way through it

(Newser) - Historians looking to chronicle Tunisia's revolt should subscribe to Slim Amamou's Twitter feed. He went from dissident blogger, to imprisoned dissident blogger, to freed dissident blogger, to government minister in the space of a few weeks, chronicling every step of the way with tweets. It's no secret that social media...

Twitter Shows Some Spine Over First Amendment
Twitter Shows Backbone
Over First Amendment
OPINION
Jan 12, 2011 3:01 PM CST

Twitter Shows Backbone Over First Amendment

'Wired' columnist: Other tech companies should follow suit

(Newser) - When the US government told Twitter to hand over its information about WikiLeaks figures, the company did what is so unfortunately rare these days, writes Ryan Singel at Wired . It "beta-tested a spine" and stood up for the First Amendment. The easiest course of action would have been to...

Twitter Shows Nation's Regional Accents

Linguists think that's pretty 'koo'

(Newser) - The constant stream of communication being published by Twitter users has provided linguists with a window into regional dialects, the AP reports. Carnegie Mellon researchers examined 380,000 tweets from a week in March and found different patterns of speech for different regions. "I think that it shows is...

Feds Snooping in Our Twitter Account: WikiLeaks

Leakers unseal court order seeking messages, contact info

(Newser) - The US is trying to strong-arm Twitter into forking over WikiLeaks' account details, subpoenaing private messages and contact details alike of Julian Assange and Co., reports the AP. WikiLeaks made the complaint in a statement today, alleging that other US web firms were likewise being ordered to surrender info on...

Justin Bieber Is Dangerous for Teen Girls
Justin Bieber Is
Dangerous for Teen Girls
OPINION
Jan 6, 2011 1:31 PM CST

Justin Bieber Is Dangerous for Teen Girls

Psychiatrist: His 'media machine' creates the illusion of intimacy

(Newser) - Teenage girls are a little too emotionally invested in Justin Bieber, warns psychiatrist Alan Ravitz for the Child Mind Institute . Don't believe him? Check out some of the hysterical tweets that emerged after photos surfaced of Bieber with singer Selena Gomez, which include everything from slurs to threats of suicide...

Courtney Love Sued for Twitter Defamation

First celeb Twitter trial starting next month

(Newser) - The first high-profile trial over Twitter defamation will star none other than Courtney Love. The rocker is being sued by fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, whom Love called a thief and a drug-pushing prostitute in a series of angry tweets in 2009. "She has received a VAST amount of money...

Pelosi: No Regrets ... and New Twitter Handle

Outgoing speaker now @NancyPelosi

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi's reign as the first female House speaker ends at noon today, but at least she's now got a shorter Twitter handle. "I’m now @NancyPelosi, 2 characters shorter than @SpeakerPelosi," she wrote to followers last night. ReTweeters "rejoice!" she added. Incoming speaker John Boehner,...

Palin Passes on Tweet About 'Homos'
Palin Retweets
Line About 'Homos'
Jan 4, 2011 2:01 AM CST

Palin Retweets Line About 'Homos'

Is this her way of taking a position on DADT?

(Newser) - Did Sarah Palin just jump into the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" fray? The TLC star retweeted a conservative lesbian blogger's tweet about "homos" last night—and it's a line that backs dropping the policy and allowing gays to serve openly in the military. While commenting on DADT, Tammy...

Meet the Justin Bieber Lookalike Storming the Web

Jamie Laou already has 50,000 Twitter followers

(Newser) - Apparently, all it takes to earn your very own set of tween groupies these days is an eerie likeness to Justin Bieber. That’s what 17-year-old Australian high school student Jamie Laou has going for him. Laou went from a random Twitter user in July to, this weekend, a worldwide...

Tech-Savvy Travelers Rebook Flights Via Twitter

It beats waiting in line

(Newser) - An extra twist of the knife for the poor souls waiting in line for ticket agents to rebook flights: Some of their fellow travelers got it done with a tweet. Delta, for instance, has had several employees focused mainly on handling direct-message Twitter requests from tech-savvy passengers since the East...

SEC Snooping Around Facebook, Twitter Trades

Booming private exchanges move social networks' shares

(Newser) - The SEC wants information about the surging private stock exchanges that have grown up around top social networks, the New York Times reports. Shares of Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and LinkedIn are all sought-after commodities—though none of the companies are publicly held. As the exchanges gain popularity, Wall Street investment...

Sarah Palin: 'Refudiate' Was Just Sloppy Typing

Former governor attempts to explain famous gaffe

(Newser) - Sarah Palin used her TLC soapbox last night to repudiate, er, refute, er, whatever, that whole refudiate ruckus, explaining that it was a mere typo. "I pressed an F instead of a P and people freaked out," Palin said. "Make lemonade out of lemons." Critics, however,...

These Predictions for 2010 Were Way Off

They said iPads wouldn't make it, but Google Wave would

(Newser) - The media gave us plenty of predictions for 2010, and plenty of them simply didn’t come true. AOL News lists some of the most glaring:
  • Job growth will begin again. Newsweek predicted it unemployment would fall “below 9%,” but it was never less than 9.5%.
  • Republicans
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