Archive for August, 2010
Monday, August 16th, 2010
Justin Bieber posted a teenager's telephone number on Twitter in a bid for revenge.
The 16-year-old singer - who has over 4.5 million followers on the social networking site - posted Detroit teenager Kevin Kristopik's number on Twitter and added “Everyone call me :) or text”.
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Sunday, August 15th, 2010
North Korea's propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heels of its foray into video with clips posted on YouTube.
The secretive regime has begun micro-blogging under the name uriminzok, with several posts pointing its few dozen followers to anti-Seoul and anti-US ...
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
SW Police are embracing the same social media site allegedly used to lure a Sydney teen to her death.
More than 10,000 people have signed up to follow NSW Police on Facebook since March, a milestone the force marked today with a special video thanking its new "friends".
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
When it comes to their online image, Generation Y men are doing more grooming and preening than women, research has found.
The study, which looked at how different age groups use and perceive online social media like Facebook and Twitter, found men were more image-conscious than women.
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
It is a result Julia Gillard will hope repeats itself on election day.
Following her appearance on ABC's Q&A last night, Ms Gillard was the No.1 trending topic on Twitter around the world for more than an hour.
ABC Radio reported this morning that there were more than 20,000 tweets last night ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
As the Prime Minister stood down from a forklift yesterday during a warehouse visit, she lost her shoe. It was quickly replaced by a kneeling forklift driver named Rob Stewart, who said he was ''just doing the gentlemanly thing''.
We know this because the incident was immediately ''tweeted'', or reported on ...
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Facebook has acquired a broad set of patents on social networking covering the basic functions of just about any social app, ranging from friend lists to the news feed.
The patents were acquired from Friendster, which has been awarded a wide array of social networking patents over the last decade. According ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair.
Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Philippine police say they used Twitter and Facebook to track down a flamboyant gang of young men and women who robbed the rich to feed their drug habits.
Police killed their leader Ivan Padilla, 23, and arrested three others over the past week following a rash of vehicle thefts targeting Manila's ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Paul Ceglia, who claims in a lawsuit that he owns 84 per cent of Facebook, said his case wouldn't have been possible if police hadn't come to his house in October to arrest him for fraud.
Ceglia's arrest and a suit by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo two months later, ...
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