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Police arrest exec for not using Twitter

But just look at that headline and wonder how it could possibly be true. It seems that thousands of teenage girls turned up to mob the wondrous teen hope, a happening perhaps so frightening that Bieber did not turn up. The Nassau County police became ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Nassau County Police,  Facebook Inc.

Poland launches Auschwitz page on Facebook

When I lived and worked in Warsaw, Poland, just before the turn of the century, I had a client who was about to make a TV spot. The client insisted on a Polish director. We offered the name Marek Dawid. "Pawel Edelman," was the answer. "Oh, I'm not ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  BBC,  T-Mobile,  Microsoft Corporation

The 'Tweance': Talk to dead stars on Twitter

If you have been trying to tweet Michael Jackson over the last few weeks without even a squeak of success, might I sing you a song of hope? A remarkably forward-thinking psychic has decided to hold a seance on Twitter. A "Tweance," if you ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Michael Jackson,  James Dean,  Che Guevara,  John Lennon

Waiter fired for twittering about celebs

It is not easy to feed the egos of Hollywood celebrities. It is not even easy to merely feed their intestines. This seems to be the conclusion one reaches from the story of Jon-Barrett Ingels, waiter to the stars. Well, now former waiter to the ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  6 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Jane Adams,  Twitter Inc,  HBO,  Los Angeles Times,  Pamela Anderson

Top boxer threatens Facebook over hate groups

Boxing's popularity seems to have been overtaken by such pleasures as mixed martial arts and American Idol over the last few years. This doesn't seem to have discouraged Facebook users from forming groups around their love of expressing hate for ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  10 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Amir Khan,  David Beckham,  American Idol

Jaycee's alleged kidnapper: On Google Street View?

Few could imagine a more chilling tale of depravity than the story that has emerged over the last few days concerning the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard. Boing Boing co-editor Xeni Jardin has posted a series of Street View shots in which a van is seen ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  1 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Xeni Jardin,  Boing Boing,  Intel,  AMD

This Twitter look-alike requires 1,400 characters

Sometimes it's hard to know why people do things. But it's easy to see why some creative minds have come up with Woofer. This is a site whose look bears a remarkable resemblance to Twitter--right down to its pale-blue colors. But its conceit is to ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  29 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Sarah Palin,  Myspace,  White House,  Jay Rockefeller

Trent Reznor is a Twitter quitter

When a pioneer of social networking turns his back on a social network, is this the beginning of a creeping social apocalypse? And though he briefly returned to microblog about the final, ultimate, totally farewell Nine Inch Nails tour, he has now shut ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  21 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  NASA,  Google Inc.,  Neil Armstrong

Craigslist, EBay Fighting Michael Jackson Scalpers

This is a section of the All Things Digital Web site featuring posts from around the Web, from other Dow Jones properties and also original pieces we solicit. The section is now explicitly labeled that it comes "from other Web sites." We are fully ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Voices | All Things Digital,  7 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  Craigslist.org,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Set your DVRs: Twitter to develop reality TV series

If scientists got the correlation models together, I wonder if they would find a blisteringly harmonious relationship between those who loathe reality TV and those who loathe Twitter. Critics of the microblogging service declare that, like reality TV, ...

From CHRIS MATYSZCZYK, Webware,  25 May 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Ben Silverman,  Demi Moore,  American Idol

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