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  Why attack Twitter?

  Twitter and Facebook were hit today with denial-of-service attacks that can knock a site offline, but don't steal information or cause permanent damage. The question is, why?

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  Warning: The wrong tweet can get you sued

  A Chicago-area woman is being sued for $50,000 by her landlord over a critical Tweet, the Chicago Sun-Times reported today. The landlord is quoted as describing itself as a "sue first and ask questions later kind of an organization." The tweet in que...

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  Twitter needs to teach people to tweet

  Technology journalists are often accused of blowing Twitter out of proportion, and for good reason.

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  Twitter: a growing security minefield

  In June, the world watched as tweets from the streets of Tehran flooded Twitter. Frequent Twitter users--and people who hadn't even heard of the microblogging service--were suddenly and simultaneously witnessing its potential.

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  Could you be hacked like Twitter?

  The French hacker who broke into Twitter's Google Apps and stole more than 300 private company documents has revealed in detail how he did it.

• TechCrunch quits trickling Twitter docs

  TechCrunch concluded its days-long drip of <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/168462/twitter_hacked_secrets_to_be_revealed.html?tk=rel_news">stolen Twitter documents</a> with details on the company's conversations with Google and Microsoft.

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  TweetPsych builds a psychological profile based on Tweets

  If Twitter is voyeuristic, then TweetPsych takes it to a whole new level. Based on your last thousand tweets (or those of someone you're interested in knowing a deeper understanding of), TweetPsych builds a psychological profile, indicating a score a...

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  Twittergate is lame

  The revelations from the dubiously named Twittergate have been about as exciting as watching wet paint dry.

• How 3 year olds consume media: the new shock report

  Yesterday everyone was reporting the <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=119080&amp;">startling report by 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern Matthew Robson</a>, which stated that today's teenagers don't use Twitter, prefer Walkma...

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  How many Twitter followers does it take to get a job?

  A recent job posting on Best Buy Co Inc.'s Web site for a Senior Manager - Emerging Media Marketing position based out of the company's corporate headquarters in Richfield, Minn. listed two preferred job qualifications: a graduate degree and 250+ fol...

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  Anyone want to buy Twitter?

  Despite Twitter's popularity and ballooning public image, the micro-blogging site may never be able to turn a profit. That was the prevailing attitude at Allen & Co's Sun Valley, Idaho media conference, where the topic du jour was Twitter. None of th...

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  Is Facebook past its prime?

  Is Facebook on its last legs? Is it going to pull a MySpace on us? Will Facebook be the Internet's hip site du jour one day, then suddenly lose the love and affection of most of its followers the next? We hope not. But various irritations associated ...

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  Medical marijuana dispensary thrives on Twitter

  Twitter has been used to fight tyranny, deliver tragic news, follow politics, and now some California residents have found another innovative purpose for the micro-blogging service: marketing weed.

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  Analysis: Is HTML e-mail dangerous for your PC, or just your eyeballs?

  Last week's online protest against Microsoft Outlook is turning out to be a tempest-in-a-Tweet.

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  Twitter gains upper hand on latest scam

  Sometimes, it seems scams are becoming almost as common as social media experts on Twitter. The latest one, unleashed Monday morning and initially noticed by tech blog Mashable, centers on a fake blog hosted at the domain twittersblogs.com. Tweets co...