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The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Twitter is in talks to buy TweetDeck, the popular Web and mobile app generally associated with Twitter power users.

How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded. Mainly, the official version leaves out the role of a major cofounder. Some early Twitter investors also wonder if it also leaves out a scandal.

UberMedia, which owns several popular applications that interface with Twitter, is outlining plans to build a social network that could compete with that popular microblogging platform, said three people who were briefed on the plans.

The U.S. government's new system to replace the five color-coded terror alerts will have two levels of warnings - elevated and imminent - that will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances for limited periods of time, sometimes using Facebook and Twitter, according to a draft Homeland Security Department plan obtained by The Associated Press....

Cuba's Maximum Leader is also on top in cyberspace. Twitter account that tweets excerpts from former President Fidel Castro's frequent musings on world affairs has passed 100,000 followers - which the government says makes it the first official Cuban-themed Twitter account to break that threshold.

The Courtney Love Twitter-libel saga has finally come to an end — an ending with six figures. According to the AP, Love will pay $430,000 to settle a libel lawsuit brought against her by designer Dawn Simorangkir, a.k.a. “the Boudoir Queen.”

Charlie Sheen may or may not be “winning,” in life, but he has won a rare honor: he has set a new Guinness World Record for fastest person to reach 1 million followers on Twitter.

All the people who use these clients on Android, Blackberry and IOS were no longer able to gain access to the popular social network from their mobile device.

Long-form blogs were once the outlet of choice, but now sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are favored.