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Sep 27, 2009Times Online
TWITTER can be a tough crowd. When news broke last week that the profit-free internet phenomenon had attracted a $100m (£62m) investment and was now “worth” $1 billion, the reaction was almost as swift and harsh as that handed out to Kanye West af...
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May 20, 2009Computerworld
That Boomers dramatically alter the social networks they adopt should come as no surprise, according to Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a think tank that studies Americans' online habits. "Boomers are the mains...
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May 11, 2009Bit by Bit
Mary Madden appeared on the May 7th edition of "Seedlings" to discuss her work at the Project. Seedlings is a weekly education and technology podcast created by teachers for teachers.
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Mar 15, 2009The San Francisco Chronicle
Increasingly, Facebook and Twitter are overlapping, setting the stage for one of the biggest Silicon Valley rivalries over the next few years.
Both companies want to play a major role in how people communicate online, a potentially lu...
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Feb 18, 2009L.A. Times
Twitter always reminded me of my dog, squirming around, tail wagging -- demanding a little more attention than I felt I could give. But when I devoted a few minutes of attention, it was usually worthwhile.
The Internet-based status-updat...
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Feb 18, 2009NPR's News and Notes
'COX: So what is micro-blogging? And why are more people starting to do it?
BENNETT: Well, it's a form of blogging that allows people to send brief text updates or short messages to other subscribers of that same service. Now, the most p...
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Feb 15, 2009Associated Press
Twitter Inc. has spawned a new way to communicate by limiting messages to 140 keystrokes. So here's a way to describe the Internet's latest craze within Twitter's space restrictions:
It's a potluck of pithy self-expression simmering with...
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Feb 13, 2009Scientific American's 60-Second Science Blog
"It's a tool like we've seen cell phones become a tool in reporting," says Susannah Fox, an associate director at the Pew project and a co-author of the report. "Back in the day, people would snap a picture because they were on the scene. [Now] th...
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Feb 13, 2009Orlando Sentinel
The Twitter community is growing.
A Pew Internet & American Life Project survey released Thursday shows that about 11 percent of online adults have used Twitter or a similar "micro-blogging" service, which allow users to post quick, brie...
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Feb 13, 2009CNET
'About 20 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 34 have used a status-updating service, the research found (considering Facebook's ubiquity, this actually is lower than I would have expected). Then it starts to drop off. Only 10 percent of ...
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