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As Twitter matures, the people who use it must follow or get left behind. How Twitter made the transition from novelty to an inseparable part of current social media.

Twitter developers have added new functionality, called Lists, that allows users to create lists of users. Twitter has turned on Lists, which is in beta, for about a quarter of all users and plans to roll out the functions to all accounts.

News Analysis: Microsoft's recently launched Bing Twitter site is indexing tweets in real time. Not to be outdone, Google promises that Twitter content will be integrated into Google's search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot. What are the implications?

"Twitter is testing a new feature allowing the more anal of its users to compile lists of Twitter accounts."

London's renowned Royal Opera House said Tuesday it hopes to perform excerpts of an opera now being composed on the Web by the growing community of Twitter users

Twitter users can already send their tweets to Facebook. Now Facebook users can do the reverse with an app called SocialToo.

A guide to using Twitter hashtags for business.

Twitter sues Australian developer

The ABC is to play host to a conference that claims to be "the first Australian Twitter conference".

Premature results for the weekend's state elections published on social networking site Twitter have raised fears about how much influence such updates could have on German voters. Anyone found guilty of leaking the exit polls could face a fine of up to 50,000 euros.

The NBA has banned all social media during games, including Twitter and Facebook. This contrasts the leagues' relationship with 'traditional media,' which has mostly been favorable and inclusive.

Twitter has grown exponentially in the last 3.5 years. The company is trying to raise capital for growth, stimulating debate regarding the companies fundamental value beyond hype.

Two Vermont statisticians are analyzing Twitter's river of messages to monitor the public's changing moods and what affects them.

As Germany heads into national elections, established political parties are trying to appeal to Web-savvy voters using Facebook and Twitter. But their Internet policies are alienating bloggers and activists, who are using the medium to protest against the political mainstream.

Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day.

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While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding "top" academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration. Part I of this paper chronicles the inevitable limits of what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self-involvement and inaccessibility. We predict an upcoming social upheaval in academic publishing as it shifts from a feudal to democratic form, from knowledge managed by the few to knowledge managed by the many. The technology trigger is socio-technical advances. The drive will be that only democratic knowledge exchange can scale up to support the breadth, speed and flexibility modern cross-disciplinary research needs. Part II suggests the sort of socio-technical design needed to bring this transformation about.