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Government wants college students not to tweet about ‘secret’ matters

December 9, 2010

If you are a college student looking to secure a job with a government agency later in your life, you should be very careful what you tweet about! In a recent memo sent to Columbia university the government has guided the college students against tweeting about state secrets like the wikileaks expose. According to the letter, talking about these issues will make the student seem unreliable, and unsuitable to keep state secrets in the eyes of the government and may make them unsuitable for

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Government wants college students not to tweet about 'secret' matters

December 9, 2010

If you are a college student looking to secure a job with a government agency later in your life, you should be very careful what you tweet about! In a recent memo sent to Columbia university the government has guided the college students against tweeting about state secrets like the wikileaks expose. According to the letter, talking about these issues will make the student seem unreliable, and unsuitable to keep state secrets in the eyes of the government and may make them unsuitable for

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Twitter to Launch a Tool for TweetStats

November 28, 2010

Twitter is gearing itself up to face the competition in the social media market, and it’s beefing itself up by adding newer and better features for the big fight. The new twitter has already rolled out all the world and had made #twitter a hot topic again, and the latest arsenal is a new stats tool which will let a person monitor the popularity of the updates posted. This means that people will find out exactly how useless their ‘took a break, hit the toilet for a leak’,

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Tweeting for Truth! Twitterers Expose Corrupt Journalists in India

November 27, 2010

If you still had any doubt about the power of twitter, here’s some news that will rock your boat a little. Last week the most popular trending topic on twitter was #Barkhagate. A reference to Barkha Dutt, a high-ranking journalist with one of the leading news channels of India. She was caught with her pants down, in a telephone conversation with a political lobbyist. The recorded call was sent to all leading media houses and figures by an anonymous whistle blowers, and they all sat on

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Everybody’s Tweeting #iamspartacus, Twitter Stands Together Against Silly Conviction

November 13, 2010

A British judge fined a British citizen 3000 pounds for what was nothing more than a careless tweet, a silly empty threat that we all make now and then. We are talking about Paul Chambers, a 27 year old man who tweeted Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I’m blowing the airport skyhigh!!” when he felt the delays could cause him to miss his flight. Obviously the British judiciary has a problem deciding what’s a

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