140 character communism

Nov 9, 2011
Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, signed up for a Twitter account yesterday and within hours of joining, Cuban activist/blogger Yoani Sanchez showed...

"Vengeful Librarians" are watching Twitter

Nov 4, 2011
The AP has a story today on a division of the CIA that sits around and reads tweets all day. Like, 5 million tweets a day. It's called the Open...

Twitter launches Twitter Stories

Nov 2, 2011
There is often more to a tweet than the 140 or fewer characters that show up on the screen. To that end, Twitter's new Twitter Stories site...

Turkey tweets lead to housing

Oct 24, 2011
Hours after yesterday's 7.2 magnitude quake struck eastern Turkey, Turkish TV journalist Erhan Çelik appealed to his 22,000+ Twitter followers to...

iOS is huge for Twitter

Oct 18, 2011
Here's an unexpected beneficiary of the new Apple operating system: Twitter. The microblogging platform is built in to iOS 5, and Twitter honcho...

Extra! Extra!

Oct 17, 2011
Four new print magazines, each focusing on a different social media outlet (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google), will go on sale at local...

Mid-day Extra: Jonathan Zittrain on Fed's plan to monitor Twitter, blogs

Oct 13, 2011
The Federal Reserve has a new plan to understand the public's perception -- following blogs, Facebook, and Twitter.

For public good, not for profit.

Twitter captures "tweet"

Oct 11, 2011
Back in 2008, Twitter advertising group Twitad, trademarked the word "tweet." It wasn't a big deal until people at Twitter realized what had...

Who WON'T be looking at your social network?

Oct 7, 2011
Banks and lenders are in on the act. Well, not quite yet, but as soon as enough data can be collected, it will most certainly be crunched and...