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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.

After the social-networking service Twitter announced Monday it was in talks to develop an unscripted series based on the site, two of the service's most prolific users have expressed fear that such a jump would mean an unfair intrusion on their lives.

Facebook sells a 1.96% stake to a Russian internet firm, a move that values the social networking website at $10bn.

Twitter is confronting a slew of challenges -- from hiring, to keeping its service up and running, to finding meaningful revenue -- as it deals with sudden stratospheric growth.