NBC asked Twitter to suspend the account of a journalist who has been a prominent critic of its Olympics coverage. Twitter — an NBC partner — complied. Is this censorship or is there some other explanation? Read more at GigaOM »
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In a candid ruling, a New York judge said a protester can’t stop prosecutors from searching his Twitter account because he doesn’t own the tweets in the first place. Read more »
It remains to be seen whether all social networks can be profitable on advertising alone — and crucially what formats will work best alongs… Read more »
This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them l… Read more »
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As social TV emerges as something beyond an experiment for advertisers and TV networks, Twitter is eager to take a bigger role in connecting… Read more »
Twitter has not been very forthcoming on user numbers, but today it gave a shower of stats and data to mark a milestone in its growth: 100 m… Read more »
A sign of Twitter’s growing power, and increasing need to interface with government to get its message across: the company has hired a new h… Read more »
The starring role of social media services like Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger in the recent riots in England has been much-debated: today… Read more »
These last weeks in UK politics and media could have come out of a Robert Harris novel. And a couple of the more colorful characters have be… Read more »
The second lawsuit over a case of “twitter-squatting” has ended just a month after it was filed. Coventry First, a company that operates in… Read more »
A little social media experiment is underway at the publishers Hamish Hamilton/Penguin UK: the publisher has tied up with the social media s… Read more »