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A hacker broke into the Twitter account of NBC News and sent out a handful of false tweets about a suspected hijacking and a plane attack at ground zero just days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, announced a list of interesting engagement stats, and then slipped in this tiny piece of information in an informal business meeting on Thursday morning that “Users will begin to observe promoted tweets from companies you don’t follow.”

When it comes to spreading popular content around the web, where you post matters. A study that link-shortening service Bit.ly released on its blog Tuesday shows that different kinds of links rise and fizzle at different speeds — depending on the platform they are posted on.

Twitter has launched its own photo-sharing tool, offering a native version of a feature that until now was mostly the domain of third-party apps like Twitpic and yfrog.

Twitter has started gradually rolling out a new, HTML5-based version of Twitter.com for the iPad.

Twitter said it received a "significant" round of funding led by Russian venture firm Digital Sky Technologies.

Are those who post unverified reports on Twitter playing an important role in the new ecosystem of news, or being irresponsible and indulging in gossip? That question goes to the heart of the idea of news as a process rather than a finished product.

The Women's World Cup final between Japan and the United States set the record for tweets per second, eclipsing the wedding of Prince William and Kate and the death of Osama bin Laden.

A boom in apps has fed longstanding tensions between Twitter and the developers over whether they are partners or competitors.

Despite new ownership and an injection of Justin Timberlake celebrity cachet, the bad news just keeps coming for Myspace.