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Brazil sues Twitter over roadblock warning posts

YahooNews — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:02:36 +0000

The government of Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Twitter, demanding the micro-blogging site suspend the accounts of users who tip drivers off to police roadblocks and radar traps.

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Protester's Lawyer Challenges Twitter Subpoena

YahooNews — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:35 +0000

A lawyer said a request to subpoena the Twitter account of Malcolm Harris, an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator, was overbroad and constituted an abuse of the court process.

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Twitter Vies With YouTube for Super Bowl Fans Surfing IPads

YahooNews — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:56:31 +0000

Aaron Magness plans to watch the Super Bowl this weekend on his 55-inch screen television, with an iPhone in one hand and an iPad at his hip.

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Twitter More Addictive Than Alcohol; A Potentially Habitable Super Earth

YahooNews — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:56:26 +0000

Discovered: Twitter addiction, Super Earth, there's a possibility obesity is infectious, 1.2 million malaria deaths, drinking coffee has at least one health benefit for a small set of people.

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Twitter Rolls Out Expanded Brand Pages for More Companies

YahooNews — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:56:08 +0000

Twitter has started rolling out its enhanced brand pages to more advertisers.

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Occupy Protestor's Twitter Account Subpoenaed

YahooNews — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:53:30 +0000

Smacked with yet another subpoena, Twitter must submit an Occupy protestor's account information to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office — unless the account holder can stop the order before Feb. 8.

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Twitter CEO: 'You don't pull the batteries out of the microphone'

YahooNews — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:51:26 +0000

Twitter did not participate in the recent online "blackouts," in which Wikipedia and others made their websites inaccessible to U.S. visitors for a day, because it would have been counterproductive, the company's CEO said Monday night.

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Twitter will introduce more analytic, predictive tools; is it jilting third party developers again?

YahooNews — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:49:19 +0000

The original Twitter was incredibly sparse, which is saying a lot for a site that still remains rather singularly-focused. The site was nothing but its constant stream of tweets. Eventually, developers began creating tools to build on top of the …

Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor

YahooNews — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:47:38 +0000

Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

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What's Scary and Not so Scary About Twitter Censorship

YahooNews — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:47:22 +0000

Twitter just announce a new policy that sounds scarier than it is, especially following all the talk about censorship these days. In a blog post titled "The Tweets Must Flow" twitter announced that it will now have the ability to …