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The big Twitter news of the week is that one of the microblogging platform’s most popular users, rocker John Mayer, has quit the microblogging service, leaving his 3.7 million fans, many of whom joined the service specifically to receive his frequent tweets, out in the cold.

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In recent months we’ve seen a dramatic upswing in the number of police departments and other organizations using Facebook and other social networks to “shame” criminals (and suspected criminals). These methods have ranged from posting photographs of suspected drunk…

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For those of you who like to share content on Twitter, the site of the ubiquitous TweetMeme "Retweet" button is a familiar and welcome site. For over a year, it’s been the primary one-click solution for sharing web content with Twitter users without resorting to copying a URL, shortening it, and then pasting it into Twitter, a process that can be quite tedious at times.

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Every now and then you hear a great story about someone getting fed up with their job and quitting in dramatic style. A JetBlue flight attendant named Steven Slater probably takes the prize, however, after he reamed out an unruly passenger earlier this week over the plane’s intercom, then grabbed two beers from the cantina and exited the plane onto the tarmac using the emergency exit slide.

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Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Twitter has, at its core, a secret, passionate love for SMS. That’s why the original 140 character limit came along in the first place – so that Twitter users could use the microblogging platform with just about any phone made in the last ten years, and on pretty much any network. In an age when many of us use smartphones and computers to access Twitter, one can easily wonder whether Twitter has forgotten its roots.

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When Twitter’s "Who to Follow" feature launched at the beginning of this month, it was met with relatively little fanfare. That’s probably because it currently exists only on the Twitter website; the API for the new "Suggested Users" feature set hasn’t yet been released to developers, although Twitter promises that’s in the works.

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Back when the iPhone was still a new product, we used to hear a great deal about what a sea change it was causing in the world of video games. Gaming, previously considered the provinence of introverted, stay-at-home nerds sitting in the dark with a two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew, had suddenly become something that you might see on the bus, on the subway, at a restaurant.

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For those of you who like to share content on Twitter, the site of the ubiquitous TweetMeme "Retweet" button is a familiar and welcome site. For over a year, it’s been the primary one-click solution for sharing web content with Twitter users without resorting to copying a URL,…

This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.
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Every now and then you hear a great story about someone getting fed up with their job and quitting in dramatic style. A JetBlue flight attendant named Steven Slater probably takes the prize, however, after he reamed out an unruly passenger earlier this week over the plane’s intercom,…

This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.
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Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Twitter has, at its core, a secret, passionate love for SMS. That’s why the original 140 character limit came along in the first place – so that Twitter users could use the microblogging platform with just about any phone made in the last ten years,…

This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.
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