Agence France Presse:
N.Korea uses Twitter for propaganda offensive — SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea’s propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heals of its foray into video with clips posted on YouTube. — South Korea blocks the site and few in North Korea have access even to a computer.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Trouble at Twitter Inc. — Running Twitter Inc. sounds like any entrepreneur’s dream: Cash flows freely. The press is smitten. Celebrity users abound. But CEO and co-founder Evan Williams is said to be on the verge of being ousted from his microblogging paradise. — These should be Williams’ glory days.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Says Networking Error Caused Downtime — Social network Twitter experienced several hours of downtime this morning, causing its site, 3rd party Twitter clients and services reliant on it for user authentication to be inaccessible. — Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner just offered …
In an effort to remove the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout t.co , its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging …
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