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Obama: "I Have Never Used Twitter"

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Barack Obama spoke to a group of Chinese students tonight at a town hall in Shanghai. The meeting was streamed live, worldwide on the Whitehouse website and on the Whitehouse's Facebook page. He was asked a limited number of questions by the audience and one was about Twitter, which has been blocked in China since July.

 

Twitter Explains the New Retweet Feature

At this point, a fair number of Twitter users have the new retweet feature enabled (and if you’re not one of them, don’t worry, the rollout continues).

 

Seesmic Web One-Ups Brizzly With Lists AND Geolocation Support (Kind Of)

Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client.

 

Twitter Starts Rolling Out Lists To Everybody. Have You Gotten Yours?

Ever since Twitter announced it is working on a new Lists feature a month ago, users and developers have been awaiting its broad rollout.

 

Both Microsoft, Google seal deals with Twitter

Both Microsoft, Google seal deals with Twitter

Twitter is selling the rights to mine its communications hotbed to both Internet search leader Google and Microsoft in dueling deals that underscore the growing importance of being able to show what's on people's minds at any given moment.

 

Web 2.0 Summit: Bing Wins Facebook, Twitter Partnerships

Microsoft has struck non-exclusive search deals with Facebook and Twitter to integrate real-time status updates and tweets into Bing's search results. Microsoft online services division president Qi Lu and Yusuf Mehdi ...

 

Twitter may eliminate 'suggested users' list

If you're trying to figure out who to follow on Twitter, you might soon be turning to fellow users for help, rather than the company itself....

 

Apple Gets A Little More Serious About Using Twitter

Back in March, the company started tweeting from its first official Twitter account, iTunesTrailers. They even went so far as to highlight the account on their Apple.com Trailers page. Thanks to the suggested users list, that account now has well over 1 million followers.

 

Meghan McCain Twitter photo causes stir

Meghan McCain Twitter photo causes stir

Blogger Meghan McCain, daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain, caused a brief stir on Twitter on Wednesday night when she posted a voluptuous photo of herself online.

 

Twitter in Google, Microsoft licensing talks: report

Microblogging service Twitter is in advanced talks with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp about licensing its data feed to the companies' search engines, a Web blog associated with the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

 

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