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World's first album of Twitter music available now

For the first time, you can now download an album of digital music written exclusively for Twitter.

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Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.

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Google CEO joins Twitter

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who took some flak earlier this year for calling Twitter a "poor man's email system," has joined the hot micro-blogging service.

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USGS monitoring Twitter for earthquake details

(AP) -- OMG! Earthquake!

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Microsoft icon Bill Gates starts tweeting

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates started tweeting on Tuesday.

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NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week ? personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless...

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Yahoo yodels new tune by joining tweeting craze

(AP) -- Yahoo has something new to yodel about: tweets.

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Twitter unveils tool to share tweeting locations

(AP) -- Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.

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Twitter working on Chinese registration page

(AP) -- Twitter is working on a way to allow Chinese users to sign up to the social networking site in their own language, a co-founder of the site said Monday night, but access to the popular site...

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Twitter finally feathers its nest with advertising (Update)

(AP) -- Is Twitter the next Google, the next Pets.com, or something in between? It may have begun answering that question Tuesday, with its long-awaited first step into advertising.

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Twitter buys Seattle startup, second purchase this month

Twitter announced Friday that it had bought Cloudhopper, a small SMS technology company, in the second acquisition by the popular micro-blogging service this month.

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Twitter bans outside advertising in tweet stream

Twitter on Monday banned outside advertising in the stream of messages at the hot microblogging service.

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Researcher finds diary entries are akin to tweets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lee Humphreys, assistant professor of communication, is studying the stunning similarities between 18th- and 19th-century diary entries and Twitter tweets.

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Twitter traffic spikes with World Cup goals

(AP) -- When a World Cup goal is scored, Twitter celebrates.

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World Cup kicks Twitter 'tweets' to record high

Twitter said Friday that World Cup football kicked the number of "tweets" fired off at the micro-blogging service to a record high of 3,283 per second.

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Twitter CEO celebrates dramatic growth in Japan

(AP) -- Twitter Chief Executive Evan Williams celebrated the dramatic growth of the microblogging service he co-founded at a dinner event Friday with 500 Japanese fans and promised to learn from them.

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What's in a tweet? Researchers use social media to measure national mood

Tweeters on the West Coast are considerably happier than those on the East Coast, and Twitter users are happiest on Sunday mornings and unhappiest on Thursday evenings.

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The Twit-election: It's the conversation, stupid

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to Saturday's federal election in Australia, Twitter users are clear: politicians who spend time in conversation get most out of the platform, and the Greens are...

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SKorea blocks access to NKorea's Twitter account

(AP) -- South Korea has blocked North Korea's new Twitter account from being accessed in the South, saying the tweets contain "illegal information" under the country's security laws, officials said...

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Most influential Twitter users revealed

With over 5.6 million followers each, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga are the most popular people followed on the social networking site Twitter. But they're not necessarily the most influential.

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