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Thanks to Twitter, the Frugal Traveler can instantly poll the world for suggestions on what to do, see or eat when on the road.

A British adventurer has overcome sea sickness to complete his around the world trip relying only on the goodwill of people using social networking site Twitter.

David Bill isn't annoyed when Twitter gets so bogged down with traffic that he can't post a message.

How do you get on Twitter's suggested follow list? It all comes down to a gut check, according to Twitter. In a post on Twitter's official blog, co-founder Biz Stone explained Twitter's process for selecting its list of 100 personalities and products ...

Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva got a talking-to from coach Scott Skiles after the coach learned Villanueva posted a message to his Twitter feed -- a "tweet" -- from his mobile phone during halftime of Sunday's home victory over the Celtics.

Suddenly Twitter is the Snuggie of social networking.

Facebook made a number of announcements today about changes to its home page, profile pages, and activity streams. Taken together, these represent a concerted response to the rise of Twitter as a real-time message broadcasting system that goes beyond members' personal circle of friends.

One of the biggest changes is that it is getting rid of the distinction between private profiles and public pages. The 5,000-friend limit will be dropped from the public pages.

Before American Idol even hit the air last night, Ryan Seacrest demonstrated how Twitter has gone too far with a TMI tweet: “at Idol…bout to go live. I haven’t peed since lunch.” If that wasn’t enough to make you wince, 80 percent of the show’s final 12 semifinal songs would have done the trick.

Biz Stone just announced on the official Twitter blog that Twitter closed a round of funding last night with Benchmark and Institutional Venture Partners. Stone says the company was not actively looking for additional funding but was impressed by both of the VCs (and presumably impressived by very favorable terms, as well).

The micro-messaging service Twitter became popular in part due to the thousands of different ways to post and view Tweets…but what are the most popular ways to share your Tweets with the world?