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May 20, 2012 The Pakistani government blocked access to the social networking service Twitter on Sunday, after publicly holding Twitter responsible for promoting a blasphemous cartoon contest taking place on Facebook, officials said. A government spokesman was quoted by local news media as saying that the government had been in talks with Twitter to remove [...]

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Dec 18, 2011         11:59 PM CT Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the largest individual investor in Citigroup Inc. (C), and his Kingdom Holding Co. (KINGDOM) invested $300 million to buy a “strategic stake” in microblogging service Twitter Inc. “The investment was the result of several months of negotiations,” Kingdom Holding said in a statement to [...]

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December 5th, 2011 “I’d like to say goodnight to my two kids, Viv and Georgie,” Melissa McCarthy began her Saturday Night Live monologue on October 1. “Go to sleep, because momma’s about to get pretty inappropriate.” McCarthy is the comic discovery of 2011. She was a key part ofBridesmaids, one of the summer’s biggest hits. [...]

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Emma Sullivan, the Kansas teenager whose tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback has turned the conservative Republican into a social media target, is standing by her refusal to apologize. In an exchange of emails with the Los Angeles Times, Sullivan on Monday said she won’t comply with her principal’s demand that she write an apology to [...]

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August 2, 2011 at 2:06am If having the most Twitter followers could seal the deal on a person’s presidential candidacy, Newt Gingrich would reign supreme. With a staggering 1,325,842 followers to date, Gingrich has more than double the followers of Sarah Palin and has also left Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann’s — both of whom boast [...]

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08:32 AM ET, 06/21/2011 Ryan Dunn, one of the stars of MTV’s “Jackass,” died Monday in a car crash at the age of 34. Although his friends and co-stars, including Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O, made statements shortly after the news broke, Dunn’s longtime friend Bam Margera was noticeably silent. Late Monday night, the “Viva La Bam” [...]

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Why Japan’s Mainstream Media Can’t Be Trusted To Report Objectively On TEPCO (東京電力)By Jake Adelstein | Published: 12 April 2011 When the earthquake struck Japan on March 11th and knocked out TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear reactor, setting off a chain reaction of disasters–TEPCO’s chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata was nowhere to be found.  Where was he? He was [...]

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Wed Aug 4, 2010 10:46am PDT British teen Steven Holmes was initially thrilled when Kanye West chose him to be the first (and so far only) person Kanye would “follow” on Twitter. The student from Coventry, England — who goes by the Twitter handle “ste_101″ — responded to Kanye’s unexpected “follow” by excitedly Tweeting: “Holy [...]

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Saturday July 17, 2010 11:30 AM EDT Paris Hilton was held by police on the French island of Corsica and caught with less than a gram of marijuana in her purse, the Agence France-Presse reports. The heiress, 29, was stopped at the airport in Figari after arriving on a private jet from Paris on Friday. [...]

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  Saturday, 17 July 2010   7:23 AM Korean super-star, Sungmin, is mysteriously disappearing from the internet.  Within the last few days his Twitter and Cyworld accounts have been deleted.  Fans around the world are concerned and working to get him back online. Sungmin (24), is one of the four lead singers of the Korean super boy band [...]

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  Sunday, 11 July 2010 23:06 UK Uruguay striker Diego Forlan was named the winner of the Golden Ball as the best player of the World Cup. The Atletico Madrid forward, 31, scored five goals and was a major influence as his team unexpectedly reached the semi-finals in South Africa. German Thomas Mueller, who also [...]

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July 08, 2010 Resident tipster Tim Richards must be getting pretty excited now after backing David Villa/Spain in the World Cup Top Goalscorer/Winner double market at the start of the tournament. But that’s nothing compared to the buzz Bobbi Eden’s Twitter fans will be feeling if Holland win on Sunday. The Dutch porn star has [...]

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Aamir Khan joins Twitter Agencies Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Bollywood’s illustrious fraternity on Twitter just grew bigger. After Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh and Salman Khan, it is now Aamir Khan’s turn to join the micro-blogging site. It is a measure of his immense popularity that the 3 Idiots star, whose first tweet from his handle [...]

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June 24, 2010 6:49 p.m. EDT Now that the leaders of Russia and the United States have Twitter accounts, perhaps communications can move past Cold War-era technology, President Barack Obama joked Thursday.At a joint news conference with visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Obama noted that his counterpart set up a Twitter account this week during [...]

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June 22, 2010 – 12:25 IST Wherever Sherlyn Chopra goes and what ever she does creates a storm. Proving this was her recent ban from the micro blogging site Twitter. If what we hear is to be believed then the seductive temptress Sherlyn Chopra has been banned from posting images on Twitter. This comes after [...]

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  05/14/2010 09:15PM There’s twouble in the Twitterverse! After famously beating CNN to 1 million followers last April, Ashton Kutcher has been the undisputed king of Twitter, gaining more followers than anyone else on the micro-blogging site. But are his days as Twitter’s most popular user numbered? Britney Spears is slowly closing in on Kutcher [...]

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    April 9th, 2010 Words of war and peace were had between Ice-T and Aimee Mann over the last 24 hours. In an exchange unlike any other I’ve seen since I started writing Twitter-Wood, the singer/songwriter (and “Big Lebowski” actress) questioned Ice’s acting abilities in a tweet she probably would have preferred to leave [...]

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