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Twitter Helps Kill Ugly Buick Hybrid

(Newser) - Irate Twitterers appear to have forced General Motors to scrap a proposed Buick plug-in hybrid based on the Saturn Vue, Jalopnik reports. “VUE, with a touch of Buick,” tweeted one hater. “I dub thee the Vue-ick.” GM cited “the overwhelmingly negative response to this vehicle”...

Armstrong Tweets Invite to Ride; Masses Clog Traffic

(Newser) - Lance Armstrong brought Scottish traffic to a standstill today after more than 200 cyclists answered his Twitter invitation for a casual bike ride. The seven-time Tour de France winner issued the invitation while in Glasgow to watch Irish rockers U2 perform tonight. "Hey Glasgow, Scotland! I'm coming your way,...

Web Apps Keep Tabs on National Mood
Web Apps
Keep Tabs on National Mood
Aug 18, 2009 11:11 AM CDT

Web Apps Keep Tabs on National Mood

They troll mountains of online data seeking economic indicators

(Newser) - Web-based tools have become increasingly adept at measuring a critical economic indicator: the nation’s mood. Whereas old indicators were based on surveys, these applications sift through mountains of online data, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. TweetFeel, for example, looks for select words and emoticons on Twitter. Other systems do...

With FriendFeed, Facebook Aims to Rule Social Media

FriendFeed buy is bid to consolidate Internet

(Newser) - Facebook’s $47.5 million purchase of FriendFeed is about more than competing with Twitter in real-time search, Chadwick Matlin argues for the Washington Post. Facebook could use FriendFeed and Facebook Connect to become a “social media aggregator”—a hub for all content its users create and peruse...

Confessions of a Twitter Addict



 Confessions of a Twitter Addict 
Aug 15, 2009 5:56 PM CDT

Confessions of a Twitter Addict

(Newser) - Last Thursday, the Twitterverse flickered and temporarily went blank. And a writer sat there, staring. “It was funny, in a kind of pathetic, soul-crushing way,” Laurel Snyder writes on Salon. “I stared at the blank screen, hitting refresh over and over.” Her withdrawal worsened as she...

Dude, Ashton's Actually a 'Genius'
 Dude, Ashton's 
 Actually a 'Genius' 
INTERVIEW
Aug 15, 2009 4:27 PM CDT

Dude, Ashton's Actually a 'Genius'

Mr. Demi Moore has reinvented himself and saved his career

(Newser) - Is Ashton Kutcher punking all of America? The former Abercrombie model—whose surfer dude shtick climaxed in the slacker classic Dude, Where’s My Car?—runs his own production company, boasts the largest following on Twitter, and speaks eloquently about genetics. “He’s a guy’s answer to celeb...

Senators Tweet It Out Over 'Death Panels'

Specter accuses Grassley of spreading false info

(Newser) - Arlen Specter and Chuck Grassley engaged in a very 21st-century sniping match today, ABC's Jake Tapper reports. The 79-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat took to Twitter to accuse the 75-year-old Iowa Republican of spreading "myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.' " He was referring to comments...

Palin Resurfaces on Twitter
 Palin Resurfaces on Twitter 
Aug 14, 2009 2:25 PM CDT

Palin Resurfaces on Twitter

(Newser) - Sarah Palin has changed her Twitter handle to the more civilian-sounding "SarahPalinUSA" now that her old username, AKGovSarahPalin, is defunct, CNN reports. The move sparked speculation that the she may yet tweet again. The former Alaska governor has not tweeted since she resigned, preferring Facebook for her communiqués....

Brown Answers US Health Attack on Twitter

PM, wife hit back at Republicans bashing UK's health service

(Newser) - When a few Republicans called Britain's National Health Service "evil" and "Orwellian," the UK's Twitter users erupted. The hashtag #welovetheNHS has been trending for days now, at one point crashing the site. Yesterday the campaign got a high-profile supporter: Gordon Brown, who tweeted: "NHS often makes...

Tweets Largely 'Pointless Babble,' Study Discovers

(Newser) - Critics who say Twitter just consists of one pointless Tweet after another are only 40% right, a new study finds. Marketing firm Pear Analytics sampled 2,000 Tweets over a 10-day period for their analysis, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Here's how the numbers break down:
  • 40.55% of Tweets
...

Facebook (Mistakenly) Unveils 'Lite' Version

(Newser) - Facebook is testing a stripped-down version called “Facebook Lite” that loads faster but has limited functionality, TechCrunch reports. The beta was mistakenly revealed to a larger-than-intended set of users; some who did see it noticed a similarity to Twitter and Facebook's recently acquired FriendFeed. The social networking site says...

Twitter Founder's Wife Tweets Birth

Updates on water breaking, contractions

(Newser) - Her husband co-founded Twitter; now, she’s using the service to update the world on the birth of her baby, the BBC reports. “Dear Twitter, My water broke. It wasn't like Charlotte in Sex and the City,” Sara Williams wrote yesterday. She has updated with tweets about her...

Mel's Babymama: Don't Judge!
 Mel's Babymama: Don't Judge! 
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
Aug 11, 2009 11:51 AM CDT

Mel's Babymama: Don't Judge!

Plus, Angie: hot or too skinny? It's anyone's guess.

(Newser) - Oksana Grigorieva may be carrying Mel Gibson’s love child, but she wants “to be judged by my art, by my music,” she tells Reuters in her first interview. “How can I be judged for falling in love? We live in the same city. I don’t...

Facebook Buys Rival FriendFeed for $50M

Purchase sets up battle with Twitter for real-time search market

(Newser) - Facebook is buying fellow social networking site FriendFeed for nearly $50 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Friendfeed, a 12-employee outfit founded by former Google engineers, allowed users to share information across multiple social media services but never took off beyond a core techie user base. The purchase may help...

Sometimes, Celeb Tweets Bring Real News

But not usually.

(Newser) - Surprise! Celebrities do, occasionally, use Twitter to break actual news. Don’t believe it? USA Today lists some examples:
  • Paula Abdul: Bid adieu to American Idol before an official statement was released.
  • Ryan Seacrest: Told the world Ben Silverman was out at NBC before NBC did.

Families' Mornings Start with Tech Check

Families boot up computers, phones on waking

(Newser) - When it comes to morning routines, the modern family has a new set of priorities, many of which require a screen, the New York Times reports. “It used to be you woke up, went to the bathroom, maybe brushed your teeth, and picked up the newspaper,” says an...

Twitter Opera Invites Your Tweets

(Newser) - England’s world-famous Royal Opera House is getting with the times by launching the world’s first Twitter libretto, the Independent reports. Participants send lyrical tweets to @youropera, which will be set to familiar and original opera music in The Twitter Opera next month. Some critics worry it cheapens the...

Blogger Blames Kremlin for Twitter Meltdown

(Newser) - The Georgian blogger who was taken offline in the cyberattack that shut down Twitter on Thursday believes Moscow is the culprit, he tells the Guardian. The economics professor, who goes by the online name Cyxymu, says he believes Russian authorities targeted him with the denial-of-service attack because of his persistent...

Twitter's Meltdown: Blame the Russians?

(Newser) - So why did Tweets fall silent for much of today? One leading theory traces the problem to the unlikeliest of places—the conflict between Russia and Georgia, CNET reports. It goes like this: A pro-Georgia blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and the other sites affected by today's slowdown attracted...

Concerted Cyberattack Shuts Down Twitter

(Newser) - In a possible first for Twitter, a malicious attack shut down the service entirely today, Wired reports. The denial-of-service assault flooded the site's server with requests, overloading it and blocking legitimate users from gaining access for about three hours; Tweeters are now slowly regaining access.

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