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Oct 30, 2009 3:35 PM CDT

Twitter Overflows With Malware

One in 500 tweets links to malicious software, experts say

(Newser) - Twitter is the perfect malware delivery system, enabling cybercriminals to lure users with a quick tweet on a hot topic and a shortened URL that hides a shady website’s identity. One in 500 URLs posted on Twitter links to live malware, says Kaspersky international, which make a program that...

100 Defining
Moments
of the '00s

pop culture

Oct 30, 2009 12:45 PM CDT

100 Defining Moments of the '00s

The iPod, Guitar Hero, Twitter—and some serious moments, too

(Newser) - From the tragic (World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina) to the seemingly trivial (Stephen Fry's first Tweet), the Telegraph lists the top 100 defining cultural moments of the decade so far:

April 2000: Metallica sues music-sharing service Napster.
October 2001: The iPod is released.
February 2003: Sacha Baron Cohen hits

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Guru Twittered About
Sweat Lodge Death

Oct 30, 2009 10:31 AM CDT

Guru Twittered About Sweat Lodge Death

But a source close to James Arthur Ray says this is common imagery

(Newser) - James Arthur Ray, who yesterday canceled his upcoming appearances to devote all his "physical and emotional energies" to the fallout from the sweat lodge tragedy, talked a lot about death in the days leading up to the ceremony. His Twitter feed was full of posts that have since been...

5 Twitter Superstars
You Don't Know

Oct 26, 2009 12:03 PM CDT

5 Twitter Superstars You Don't Know

These unknowns have more followers than Stephen Colbert, Snoop Dogg

(Newser) - Paris Hilton may be famous for being famous, but there are at least five Twitter users with more followers than her—even though most people wouldn’t recognize them on the street. CNN runs down five of the top 200 Twitter users, each with more than 1.2 million followers,...

Microsoft's
Bing Teams
With Twitter

Oct 21, 2009 4:54 PM CDT

Microsoft's Bing Teams With Twitter

It hopes to gain edge over Google in social networking

(Newser) - Microsoft has picked up a new weapon in its Internet search duel with Google—full access to Twitter's communications hotbed. The partnership announced today represents a coup for Microsoft as it tries to spice up its Internet search engine, Bing, in its long-running attempts to lure traffic from Google. A...

Photo Doesn't Make Me a Slut: Meghan McCain

OPINION

Oct 16, 2009 2:53 PM CDT

Photo Doesn't Make Me a Slut: Meghan McCain

Overreaction part of 'infuriating' double standard on racy pix

(Newser) - Meghan McCain can’t believe the “immediate and nasty overreaction” to her post of a “funny and silly” self-portrait. She admits that posting a photo showing off her cleavage “is not the smartest thing I have ever done. But it’s just not worth the drama it...

Facebook
Refuseniks
Still Sorta
Use It

Oct 15, 2009 11:00 AM CDT

Facebook Refuseniks Still Sorta Use It

They object in principle but end up using it by proxy

(Newser) - The Washington Post today profiles an increasingly rare breed: people in their 20s and 30s who don't use Facebook or other such sites. And though the “refuseniks” interviewed have different rationales—privacy, “morals and beliefs,” being “old-school in the personal touch way,” many share something...

Meghan
McCain
Gets Racy
on Twitter

Oct 15, 2009 10:46 AM CDT

Meghan McCain Gets Racy on Twitter

Guess what part of that picture got everyone's attention? Hint: Not the book

(Newser) - Meghan McCain’s latest “controversy” is over a picture of herself—one particular part of herself being more prominent than anything else—she posted on Twitter last night. The photo (at left) is being alternately slammed and defended by commenters, the Detroit Free Press reports. Arguably the best comment...

GOP Takes Down
Tweet Linking
Pelosi, Hitler

Oct 14, 2009 11:34 AM CDT

GOP Takes Down Tweet Linking Pelosi, Hitler

Link to doctored video from NRCC 'an error,' pulled after DCCC outrage

(Newser) - Turns out linking a genocidal dictator with the speaker of the House might be a little over the top, as the National Republican Congressional Committee found itself today taking down a tweet with a link to a video comparing Nancy Pelosi to Adolf Hitler. A broadside from the Democratic Congressional...

Twitter Gets Psychic
With 'Tweance'

Oct 13, 2009 11:37 AM CDT

Twitter Gets Psychic With 'Tweance'

With all the celebrities who died this year, the pickings will be ripe

(Newser) - It was only a matter of time before even the dead celebrities found a way to overshare on Twitter. The microblogging site will play host to the world’s first online séance—dubbed the “Tweance”—the day before Halloween, the Sun reports.

UK Gags Guardian, but
Twitter Airs Suppressed Story

Oct 13, 2009 6:07 AM CDT

UK Gags Guardian, but Twitter Airs Suppressed Story

Social media site explodes with toxic waste scandal

(Newser) - The Guardian has been slapped with an unprecedented gag order forbidding it from reporting on a question in the British parliament, as well as who asked the question and why it's being gagged. The paper says constitutional rights are being infringed upon and it's already suing—but meanwhile, the suppressed...

No, Zach Braff Is Not Dead

TWITTER HOAX DEPT.

Oct 12, 2009 7:24 PM CDT

No, Zach Braff Is Not Dead

Publicist denies Twitter-spread 'report' that actor had committed suicide

(Newser) - From the don’t-believe-everything-you-see-on-Twitter department: Actor Zach Braff is in fact not dead, despite a fast-spreading rumor to the contrary. “He’s alive. It’s just another hoax,” an ABC rep says tonight of the Scrubs star, 34. Earlier in the day, Twitter was humming over a link...

Facebook, Twitter Will Kill Email ... Maybe

OPINION

Oct 12, 2009 3:59 PM CDT

Facebook, Twitter Will Kill Email ... Maybe

Social networking sites have their place, but so does predecessor

(Newser) - Email’s had a good run, but its day is done, according to Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal. Email is an outdated form of communication, better suited to a time when we logged online and off, she argues. Now that we’re always connected, Twitter and Facebook are...

Celebs Bitch Away on Twitter—at Their Peril

Oct 12, 2009 11:09 AM CDT

Celebs Bitch Away on Twitter—at Their Peril

More and more, stars are using social networking to rant about other stars

(Newser) - Thanks to Twitter, celebrities are getting candid and crass in public: The social networking site offers “a kind of faceless anonymity,” one editor tells the Los Angeles Times, leading stars—who might otherwise hide behind a publicist—to tweet their dirty laundry for all the world to see....

Soundbite Nation:
Tweet First, Think Later

OPINION

Oct 12, 2009 7:50 AM CDT

Soundbite Nation: Tweet First, Think Later

Social media leading to 'general derangement': Dumenco

(Newser) - Time was, only politicians were expected to speak in soundbites, but these days, writes Simon Dumenco in Advertising Age, "tens of millions of us do it as a matter of course." Twitter and other social media have made us all into reaction machines, with errors and exaggerations cropping...

Taylor: Heart Surgery
'Went Off Perfectly'

Oct 8, 2009 8:05 PM CDT

Taylor: Heart Surgery 'Went Off Perfectly'

Actress, 77, tweets that 'it's like having a brand new ticker'

(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor’s heart surgery today “went off perfectly,” she writes on Twitter. “It’s like having a brand new ticker.” The actress, 77, says the procedure was to repair a “leaky valve,” and ripped media reports that she has diabetes as “a...

Tweeting About Miscarriage
Hits New Twitter Low

OPINION

Oct 7, 2009 4:03 AM CDT

Tweeting About Miscarriage Hits New Twitter Low

'I'm in a board meeting, having a miscarriage' Tweet rattles columnist

(Newser) - Ok, that's w-a-a-y too much information, and it's high time that sharing-too-much Twitterers zip it, complains columnist Kathleen Parker. Tweets from a working woman about her miscarriage in the middle of a business meeting hit a new low even for the brashest tweeters, Parker grouses in the Washington Post. "...

Elizabeth Taylor
to Have Heart Surgery

Oct 6, 2009 5:30 PM CDT

Elizabeth Taylor to Have Heart Surgery

Actress says procedure will fix a leaky valve without open heart surgery

(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor will soon undergo heart surgery, she announced on Twitter today. “Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart,” the 77-year-old actress posted this afternoon, notes ...

Tila Tequila
Threatens
Suicide
via Twitter

'God told me I am needed up there'

Oct 6, 2009 9:11 AM CDT

Tila Tequila Threatens Suicide via Twitter

Reality TV star's tweets disturb followers

(Newser) - Famous-for-being-famous Tila Tequila threatened suicide yesterday on Twitter, claiming a friend caught her just before ending her life, and that she will go through with it in two weeks. “No one can stop me,” she posted. In a subsequent tweet, she blamed the idea on God needing her...

Hung Star Gets Waiter Fired
for Twittering About Tip

Oct 6, 2009 3:00 AM CDT

Hung Star Gets Waiter Fired for Twittering About Tip

Actress complains to management after stiffing worker

(Newser) - A Beverly Hills waiter is looking for a new job after tweeting about Hung actress Jane Adams skipping out on a bill. Adams said she was going to her car to get her checkbook, then sent a rep the next day with payment for lunch—minus tip, the waiter twittered....