Archive for September, 2010
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Microblogging sensation Twitter, which is now signing up 370,000 new users daily on average, has redesigning its website to make it easier for its millions of users to navigate the service and discover new information.
The four-year-old company, which this month reported more than 145 million users, has announced new improvements, ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
There are diverging opinions on the Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard dropout still given to wearing his student duds of baggy shorts and sandals to meetings. Depending on how you squint at Facebook's frenetic history, he has either proven himself a hacker with scant regard for privacy and ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
A study of five months' worth of tweets about Australia's big four banks has found that people dislike all banks about the same, but find different reasons to be fed up with each one.
Researchers also found that people were far more likely to tweet about ANZ, Westpac and Commonwealth Bank ...
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Sunday, September 12th, 2010
The stakes seem to have risen in what can happen when you gamble with social media and lose.
This week a newspaper editor has been stood down over insensitive comments, a hockey player faces the sack over lewd photos and a swimming star lost her car over an offensive slur.
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
An Australian Matildas soccer player has been forced to remove sexually suggestive photos from her Facebook profile after a 13-year-old fan found them while looking up her sporting hero online.
Football Federation Australia yesterday ordered Olympian Lisa De Vanna to hide the images after a complaint from the young girl's mother.
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a mobile phone.
Just days before he was freed, Kosuke Tsuneoka said one of the militants brought him his new mobile ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
A British man who went to the Philippines to propose to a woman he met in an internet chat room was stabbed to death by her jealous lover, police say.
John Lorne McDonald's would-be bride, Nanqueen Romero, 31, also sustained multiple wounds after being attacked by her Filipino lover, police said ...
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Monday, September 6th, 2010
Swimmer Stephanie Rice has apologised after reportedly posting a homophobic slur on Twitter.
Following the Wallabies' last-gasp win over South Africa on Saturday night, Rice tweeted: ''Suck on that faggots!''
But the queen of the pool, who recently withdrew from next month's Commonwealth Games with a shoulder injury, has since apologised and ...
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Twitter has over 145 million registered users and more people are using mobile devices to access the microblogging service, according to co-founder Evan Williams.
Williams, in a post on the Twitter blog, also said that nearly 300,000 third-party applications have been developed around the service, which allows users to pepper one ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
A Sydney mother-of-three, her daughter and daughter's friends have been subjected to a two-week ordeal at the hands of a Facebook stalker and they have been unable to get the social networking company to intervene.
The mother, who wished to remain anonymous due to a police investigation, said she, her 12-year ...
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