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Osama much more searched and viewed topic than the Royal Wedding[Figures].

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What will the next most buzzed word after Osama's death? Well we have to wait and see. But the incidents or events which occurred last two weeks had made new record in the Web World.

First the Royal Wedding. The most widely covered topic by media from time when the Queen had no objection with the commoner(Kate Middleton) becoming the new princess. The real buzz started in the cyber world as the date for big day was nearing. New records were emerged in Social media before and during the Wedding ceremony.

US Military secretly working on a software to rig social networking site in their interest.

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In order to show their and power and influence thing in order to make every thing under their control, US military has awarded a contract to California based tech firm along with with US Central Command (Centcom) to develop an "online persona management service", a software that will allow it to manipulate social websites like Facebook and Twitter to spread pro-US propaganda.

The Guardian reported that the 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to influence internet conversations and then spread pro-US propaganda.

This is interesting.... Facebook tried to buy twitter for $500 million back in 2008.

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In an interview to the British business daily, Financial Times, Micro blogging site Twitter turned down an offer worth $ 500 million purchase from the leading and most popular social networking site Facebook, back in 2008.

According to the Financial Times, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg offered 500 million dollars in Facebook stock for Twitter.

Chinese women lands into jail for her hatred tweet.

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A Chinese women, Cheng Jianping, 46 was sentenced to one year in a labor camp for inciting hatred and violence via micro blogging site twitter.

She urged recipients to attack the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.

Under China's legal system, the police can send people to so-called re-education through labor for up to four years without trial.

Wikileaks says, ' Coming months, new world will be seen with global history redefined'

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According to Wikileaks twitter account, in coming months they gonna release other secrets, seven times bigger than the Iraq war logs, which are widely considered to be the biggest military leak in history.

“Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs. intense pressure over it for months. Keep us strong” was the message posted to the Wikileaks Twitter account earlier today.

Twitter will link up with Apple's Ping social network.

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Twitter to rescue after Apple failed to back deal with the leading social networking site for linking apple's Ping social network with FB.

According to Twitter Blog, it will link its service with Apple Inc's new music-oriented social network.

'Help me' tweet rescues lost, injured triathlete

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A triathlete in the US who got lost during a competition and then got hurt after falling off her mountain bike sent out a desperate tweet for help. Her plea was noticed by her followers who dialled for assistance.

Leigh Fazzina, 36, was participating in a mini-triathlon in Connecticut. She got lost in a 300 acre wooded area after taking a wrong turn, Sky News reported on Wednesday.

She speeded downhill in an attempt to join back the race, when her front wheel suddenly hit a tree root and she fell to the ground.

Fazzina was not able to move and her fellow competitors failed to hear her screams.

When she didn't succeed in making a mobile call, Fazzina turned to Twitter.

Twitter surpasses 20 Billionth Tweets!!! GGGGGGo_Lets_Go is the luck tweeter

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The popular social networking-micro blogging site Twitter has passed an another landmark by sending 20 Billion Tweets. The GGGGGGo_Lets_Go is the lucky tweeter who witnessed and will be in the history book as he was the person to tweet it.

Tweet was sent at 1544 GMT Saturday by GGGGGGo_Lets_Go, a Tokyo graphic designer for an advertising agency.

It said: "So that means the barrage might come back later all at once."

By stats, Twitter took four years to reach its 10 billionth tweet, in March this year, and less than five months to double it. By this means we can understand how much exponentially the twitter is growing.

Ivy Bean, 'world's oldest Twitter user,' dead at 104

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One of the oldest Nanny to tweet about her every day life is just 104 years old :P. Ivy Bean is from northern English city of Bradford, having nearly 57,000 Twitter followers around the world.

Bren loves to tweet with her warm tweet consisted of happiness and sadness.

Two weeks ago, Bean entered the hospital with jaundice, and care home manager Pat Wright took over the tweeting on Bean's account. Wright revealed that Andre called his biggest fan daily and even sent her flowers the first day she got sick.

In the past few days, Bean returned to Hillside Manor care home, but she never fully recovered from her illness. Wright informed Bean's Twitter followers Wednesday that she died "peacefully" at 12:08 a.m.

Twitter exploring new ways to earn money with special deals

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Twitter is exploring new business models.

The newest idea is special deals for Twitter users. The deals would be financed by companies that use the Twitter account @earlybird for advertising, reported Twitter on its website.

Deals will initially be almost exclusive to American markets. But, over time, it's possible that the deals could be expanded to other regions or focus on broader categories, like music or fashion.

Twitter, which lets users send messages up to 140 characters long, has grown rapidly to more than 12 million users. But the Californian start-up has had a hard time earning money. Plans for an advertising campaign met with sharp resistance from Twitter users.

Can you Belive it ? Indian Foreign Ministry is on twitter.

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Following the steps of West side type of effort like US to interact with the public directly, Indian foreign ministry has has created a Twitter account and got several followers already.

You can follow them at @indiandiplomacy

In probably the first effort by a government ministry to experiment with the new age internet tools, the Twitter account was created on Thursday, which initially had only two posts.

A Facebook account is also being planned as is the launch of a new web portal by the public diplomacy division of the external affairs ministry, an official told IANS.

CNN Senior Editor loses job for praising Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.

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Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs Octavia Nasr agreed to leave the company after tweeting that she “respected” Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, who is often credited as being an inspiration for the Hezbollah militant movement.

The tweet, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot,” erupted a slew of reactions on Twitter. Two days after the tweet, Nasr tried to explain her tweets and apologize in a blog post.

Bharath Bandh leads in Twitter Trending Topic at no. 1 place

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Bharath(India's other name and firstly named by Hindu King) Bandh(Closed) was called by the Opposition party of India against the protest of Rise in fuel and Ration price.

Gasoline prices in the United States, which have recently hit record highs, are actually much lower than in many countries. Drivers in some European cities, like Amsterdam and Oslo, are paying nearly 3 times more than those in the U.S. -cnn

Here are the Gasoline price across some Countries (Note:Price in USD Regular/Gallon).

Turkey(Istanbul): $8.78
Netherlands: 7.91
UK: $6.59
Germany: $6.51
Japan: $5.19
Australia: $4.32
Canada: $3.82
China: $3.58
USA: $2.83

Venezuela: $0.09

1 gallon = 3.78541178 liters

which means in

India: $4.79 (here i am taking price of 1 liter of gasoline =Rs.~57(varies across cities) and 1 INR = ~ $45 USD )

This topic now is now widely discussed through out the world, Even the Twitter's Trending topic section shows it in no. 1 position.

Though i cant argue whether it is called for good reason or bad reason but the only person suffering is the common man 'Aam Aadmi'

Creative manager mock at twitter failure, come with his creativity.

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Nadav Yaron created this rather rad animation (rendered in Flash) depicting the twitter birds able to lift the huge wale.

Twitter to gives updates of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz's visit to the US.

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Saudi Arabia's Washington Embassy will use popular social networking site 'Twitter', to give updates during King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz's visit to the US.

Tweets from '@SaudiEmbassyUSA' will highlight Saudi Arabia's involvement in the G-20 Summit, as well as items of interest about the long-standing Saudi-US relationship, the embassy has said in a statement.

In addition to Twitter, the embassy has expanded its social media content to YouTube, www.youtube.com/saudiembassyusa.

Press conferences and video related to Saudi Arabia, as well as third-party speeches and interviews will be posted on the website.

FIFA World Cup Bringing Down Twitter?

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CNN.com’s Twitter buzz counted more than 300,000 World Cup-related tweets during the first game, and some data we just received from Trendrr also shows a huge spike, with up to 150,000 tweets per hour during the game (note: the time line on the graph below is MST).


Mark Ghuneim from Wiredset, the agency behind Trendrr, told me a few days ago that he expects the World Cup to be record-breaking. “It will be the largest conversation in social media,” he said.

Twitter already had some availability issues earlier this week, leading to a complete outage of about 90 minutes on Wednesday,

Coca-Cola Promoted Trend Garners 86 Million Impressions on Twitter

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In just 24 hours, Coca-Cola’s first Promoted Trend garnered 86 million impressions and an engagement rate of 6%, according to the company’s Global Interactive Marketing Vice President Carol Kruse in an interview with The Financial Times.

Coca-Cola is the second company to reach Twitter audiences by advertising as a Trending Topic on Twitter.Coca-Cola is the second company to reach Twitter audiences by advertising as a Trending Topic on Twitter. First was Disney Pixar Toy Story 3

Twitter Sets New Record: 3,283 Tweets Per Second.

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Twitter’s biggest tweets per second record to date was during last week’s NBA finals. That record was shattered yesterday as Twitter users published 3,283 tweets per second at the close of Japan’s victory over Denwark in the World Cup.

Previous record of 3,085 tweets per second was for NBA.

Both of these recent records are staggering given that Twitter — during normal daily activity — averages roughly 750 tweets per second. The Japan-Demark World Cup figure means that activity swelled 438% above average.

Russian Dmitry Medvedev president joins Twitter as well as first Russian to recive iPhone 4.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev got more than 15,000 followers in less than 12 hours after officially opening up his Twitter account during his visit to the US.

Twitter Inc. has confirmed that Medvedev has a verified account with the social networking and microblogging service.

Medvedev's account is both in English and Russian, and he has so far added only two microblogs: US President Barack Obama and the US White House.

US Football match might set new Net Record.

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The match between the U.S. and Algeria on Wednesday could set a new record for internet traffic.

Akamai's Net Usage Index, which tracks visitors per minute on the company's vast network of websites. In the minutes following Landon Donovan's game winning goal in the 91st minute of action (which sent the US to the round of 16), traffic spiked to 11.2 million visitors per minute, which move the event past the 2008 presidential election as the second highest traffic day of all-time.

The overall traffic record was set earlier this month during the first day of World Cup action, where traffic exceeded 12 million visitors per minute. We'll wait and see what the final numbers are from Akamai, but for the moment, it looks like Donovan's goal will go down in Internet history at least as a solid No. 2.