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China blocks access to the term "Shanghai Composite Index" on some of the country's most popular microblogging sites.

Today marks the sixth year since founder Jack Dorsey and Twitter’s first members started using the communications platform. And for its birthday, the company has posted a number of stats about its growth in usage.

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.

A few weeks ago, as Steve Case was flying above Sterling, en route to Dulles International Airport, he looked down and saw the sprawling campus that is home to the company he co-founded 25 years ago this month -- the pioneering service that took millions of people online for the first time. Marking its silver anniversary, the company looks to reclaim its standing among Internet giants.

As the eerily familiar bleeps and bloops of video games past began eminating from my computer this morning, a friend nearby immediately recognized them and quipped that he'd spent "way too much time and brain cells playing that game".

That game is Pac-Man and it's featured in a playable Google Doodle for the next 48 hours on the Google homepage.

The Huffington Post will soon turn 5 — veritable old-age in Internet years. As the site, co-founded by Arianna Huffington and launched on May 9, 2005, marks the anniversary, its proclaimed mission to be an "Internet newspaper" gains more credence every time its traffic surpasses the websites of its print brethren.