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Rapper Snoop Dogg gave props on Twitter to an ad for the Toyota Sienna minivan. Actress Tori Spelling linked to a website for rental cars. And reality TV star Khloe Kardashian soliloquized about the brand of jeans that accentuates the famous Kardashian derriere.

After the Obama campaign’s masterful use of social media in 2008, House Republicans have adopted Twitter as their karaoke microphone against the White House bullhorn.

The top campaign strategists for President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are in a war of 140 characters or less, lobbing insults about each ...

Twitter confirms it: People tend to wake up in a good mood and are happiest on weekends. The fast-paced forum is offering scientists a peek at real-time, presumably little-filtered human behavior and thoughts. Cornell University researchers turned to the microblog to study mood and found a pretty consistent pattern.

British Prime Minister David Cameron thinks he's found some culprits to blame in the recent riots that have rocked London and other cities -- Facebook and Twitter.

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.