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Google are expected to unveil a social-networking mobile phone today, which integrates online-sharing sites Twitter and Facebook and Flickr into its software.

An avid Twitter user, Alana Taylor wrote a song about the social networking site and uploaded it to YouTube last April. Soon, her Twitter feed became flooded with messages linking to it.

With traditional reporting silenced and with e-mail and Web services shut down, much of the information about the election protests in Iran was coming through social media sites.

American soldiers can now tweet, send friend requests and share photos and personal news just like the rest of the World Wide Web.

What are you doing Friday night? The social networking faithful will be waiting excitedly in front of a laptop in order to capture the Facebook "vanity URL" of their choice when the clock strikes twelve.

Has the popular microblogging service become a victim of its own success?

In San Francisco's Mission district, the underground street-food scene is hot with traveling vendors like the "Crème Brulee Guy" and "Sexy Soup Lady" popping up at a twitter-message's notice.

This was one special tweet for Lance Armstrong.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing the social-networking site Twitter, claiming an unauthorized page that used his name to make light of drunken driving and two Cardinals pitchers who died damaged his reputation and caused emotional distress.

The suit filed last month in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco seeks unspecified damages.
Messages left Thursday with La Russa's attorney and San Francisco-based Twitter were not returned.