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Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor (AP)

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Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor (AP)

AP - Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

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Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries (AP)

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Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries (AP)

AP - Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.

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Celebrities may temper Twitter comments after 2011 blunders (Reuters)

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Reuters - Celebrities may resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the new year, after famous people tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011.

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SC company sues ex-worker over Twitter followers (AP)

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AP - An Internet company has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the firm.

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New Tweets Per Second Record — 25,088 TPS — Set By Screening Of Japanese Movie “Castle in the Sky”

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Move over Beyonce (sigh, I can’t believe I’m writing this), a new tweets per second record has been set. According to a statement by Twitter, the Japanese television screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s “Castle in the Sky” hooked up 25,088 Tweets per second, more than twice the previous TPS record, on December 9th. On Dec...

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