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PR Firms in Full-Out
Assault on Online Reviewers

Mar 29, 2010 8:12 AM CDT

PR Firms in Full-Out Assault on Online Reviewers

Firms fight to shape what's being said about their brands

(Newser) - It isn't just Yelp, now the object of a class-action lawsuit, that's accused of manipulating those supposedly spontaneous grass-roots reviews popping up all over the Internet. Public relations companies are working overtime to shape online, word-of-mouth marketing to benefit their clients. The arena is becoming a battleground as companies strive...

5 Funny Family Blogs
That Made Good

Mar 28, 2010 2:45 PM CDT

5 Funny Family Blogs That Made Good

Maybe your embarrassing parents can help you land a TV deal

(Newser) - Easter and Passover are coming up, which means more embarrassing incidents at family get-together, plus a silver lining: You could potentially score a book deal. Chris Mathias, writing for Nerve , lists five blogs based on “familial eccentricities” that have scored their creators some cash—or at least some popularity:...

Obama Leans on Karzai
to Beef Up Cooperation

Mar 28, 2010 2:16 PM CDT

Obama Leans on Karzai to Beef Up Cooperation

Surprise visit to Afghanistan spotlights emphasis on civilian cooperation

(Newser) - President Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan today is in large part intended to impress upon the Afghan government the necessity of fighting crime and corruption in preparation to govern without American intervention. After meeting with Hamid Karzai, Obama said he was happy with the military accomplishments in the country, "...

I'm a 'Kind Pirate,' Says Obama Twitter Hacker

Mar 25, 2010 4:56 PM CDT

I'm a 'Kind Pirate,' Says Obama Twitter Hacker

Frenchman: I wanted to show system's vulnerabilities

(Newser) - The man who cracked Barack Obama's Twitter account says he was merely trying to point out security weaknesses in the system. Francois Cousteix, an unemployed 23-year-old from France, describes himself as a "kind pirate" who used low-tech methods of guessing passwords, often aided by info on the Facebook pages...

French Cops Nail Man Who Hacked Obama Twitter

'NOT A GENIUS'

Mar 24, 2010 6:52 PM CDT

French Cops Nail Man Who Hacked Obama Twitter

Unemployed, 25-year-old Frenchman did it on a bet

(Newser) - An unemployed 25-year-old was arrested today by authorities in his native France for hacking the Twitter account of President Obama—apparently on a bet, sources tell AFP . No identity was given for the man, who lives with his parents and goes by “Hacker Croll”—the nom-de-Web of the...

Maddow Denies Senate Run

Mar 24, 2010 11:02 AM CDT

Maddow Denies Senate Run

And mocks Scott Brown for spreading rumor

(Newser) - Sorry, Scott Brown: Rachel Maddow isn’t running against you in 2012. Brown sent a fundraising email to supporters, warning that “the political machine in Massachusetts” was trying to recruit Maddow, based, apparently, on a tweet from Massachusetts Democratic Party Chair John Walsh that didn’t actually name Maddow,...

Oh, Joe: Biden Drops F-Bomb

Mar 23, 2010 12:27 PM CDT

Oh, Joe: Biden Drops F-Bomb

VP reminds president health care reform is a big deal

(Newser) - Get out the equipment you used to break down the Zapruder film, and set it to "lip-read"—did Joe Biden really remind President Obama that signing health care reform bill is "a big f---ing deal"? Talking Points Memo asks—and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs...

New Twitter Craze:
Choose Your Own
Adventure

Mar 22, 2010 11:12 AM CDT

New Twitter Craze: Choose Your Own Adventure

Finally, a fun way to waste time

(Newser) - Finally, a time-sucking use for Twitter other than reading about what your favorite celebrities are eating for breakfast: Choose Your Own Adventure! Jonah Peretti brings the classic game, in which the reader makes choices that shape the story line—do you a) enter the over-packed Apple Store or b) decide...

Obama Gets Another Twitter Death Threat

Mar 22, 2010 5:30 AM CDT

Obama Gets Another Twitter Death Threat

Man says he's 'dead serious,' has been reported to FBI

(Newser) - Meet Jay Martin, the latest level-headed individual to tweet to the world that he’d like to see Barack Obama shot. “f--- YOU You should be Assassinated!! @BarackObama,” he tweeted last night after the health care vote, with a subsequent tweet adding, “If I lived in DC...

Blogger Urges 'Bullet
for Obama' on
Twitter

Mar 22, 2010 4:20 AM CDT

Blogger Urges 'Bullet for Obama' on Twitter

Secret Service investigating

(Newser) - Secret Service authorities are investigating tweets by a conservative blogger apparently urging "a bullet" to President Obama's "head." Solomon Forell, upset by the impending passage of the health reform bill, noted yesterday that because the nation survived the killings of Lincoln and Kennedy, "we'll surely get...

Lohan Dodges
Law in Sweat
Shop 'Rescue'

Mar 22, 2010 3:45 AM CDT

Lohan Dodges Law in Sweat Shop 'Rescue'

Lilo tweets of saving kids thousands of miles away

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan is in trouble with foreign authorities after indicating in a tweet that she rescued 40 kids from a sweat shop in India. Actually, she was in the US and nowhere near the Indian factory during the raid, but that's not what upset India officials. "Over 40 children...

'Tech Sabbath'
Proponents
Unplug Tonight

no facebook for 24 hours

Mar 19, 2010 5:38 PM CDT

'Tech Sabbath' Proponents Unplug Tonight

'Manifesto' calls for 24 hours without digital distractions

(Newser) - There might be a reality show in this: Take a full day off from your gadgets, starting tonight at sundown. No computer, smartphone, or digital camera for 24 hours—can you hack it? The "National Day of Unplugging" is the brainchild of Reboot, a New York-based think tank that's...

CNN's Screen Crawl
Gets Anti-Semitic

Mar 17, 2010 7:00 AM CDT

CNN's Screen Crawl Gets Anti-Semitic

Whoops! No one at the network appears to edit Twitter captions

(Newser) - CNN’s attempt to keep it real by running viewers’ Twitter comments on its screen crawl got a little too real yesterday. During a discussion about US-Israel relations between Wolf Blitzer and Rick Sanchez, the bottom of the screen ran tweets—replies to Sanchez's Twitter feed—that included “Israel...

Twitter Boss Bombs SXSW Keynote

Mar 16, 2010 9:33 AM CDT

Twitter Boss Bombs SXSW Keynote

Williams unveils @Anywhere, but bored audience mutinies

(Newser) - Twitter CEO Evan Williams didn’t unveil some revolutionary new plan to actually monetize all those tweets in his keynote at SXSW yesterday, as many expected he would. Instead, he delivered “what was likely the most horrifically devastating keynote presentation in SXSW history,” Alissa Walker writes at Fast...

Hate Speech Soars on
Social Networks

Mar 16, 2010 8:02 AM CDT

Hate Speech Soars on Social Networks

Hate speech up 20% on the Web

(Newser) - Hate speech is on the rise online, particularly on social networking sites. A new study registered about 11,500 hate-affiliated web pages, up 20% from last year, along with a growing number of terror-related "how to" sites. "The spike is not in traditional websites in the United States,...

Conan O'Brien's Twitter Buddy Shows Class

opinion

Mar 9, 2010 4:28 PM CST

Conan O'Brien's Twitter Buddy Shows Class

Sarah Killen is doing more than just cashing in on fame

(Newser) - When Conan O'Brien picked Sarah Killen at random to be the person he'd follow on Twitter, it wouldn't have been a huge surprise if she milked her fame and turned "into a real douche," writes Mary Elizabeth Williams. And while Killen has indeed become a bit of a...

Conan Follows
Random Woman
on Twitter

Mar 7, 2010 5:18 PM CST

Conan Follows Random Woman on Twitter

'Sarah Killen, your life is about to change,' late-night exile warned

(Newser) - Since Conan O'Brien joined the ranks of the unemployed, he's taken Twitter by storm and brought fame to his beard and assorted other associates. Now the ousted Tonight Show host, who has more than a half-million Twitter followers but before Friday wasn't following anyone—not even his own beard, squirrel,...

Twitter Passes 10B Tweets

Mar 4, 2010 10:10 PM CST

Twitter Passes 10B Tweets

Milestone comes just 4 months after No. 5B

(Newser) - Just four months after it hit 5 billion, Twitter passed the 10 billion-tweet mark this evening. That’s according to Gigatweet , which, in the best high-volume-times tradition of the beast it tracks, went down around the milestone. Alas, Mashable reports, a protected user gave the world No. 10,000,000,...

John Daly Tweets
Sportswriter's
Cell Number

Mar 3, 2010 12:37 PM CST

John Daly Tweets Sportswriter's Cell Number

Tells fans to 'flood his line'

(Newser) - John Daly, outraged over a Florida Times-Union article yesterday, published the cell phone number of the journalist who wrote it on Twitter. “Call and flood his line and let’s tell him how we feel,” he urged his followers. He then sent two more tweets complaining about the...

Twitter Closes In on 10B Tweets

Mar 3, 2010 10:26 AM CST

Twitter Closes In on 10B Tweets

Total posts up from 1B a year ago, 5B just 4 months ago

(Newser) - Twitter isn’t growing as explosively as it used to, but the volume of traffic on the microblogging site is still expanding fast enough that it should hit 10 billion total tweets in the coming days. That’s up from a billion about a year ago, and 5 billion just...