Group items tagged twitter - International Comm & Culture 2009

shared by Lucy Rechnitzer on 16 Aug 09 - Cached

Twitter taken down to silence one man New York August 9, 2009 CYBER attacks on Twitter and other popular web services last week disrupted the lives of millions of internet users, but the real target was one man: a 34-year-old economics professor from the republic of Georgia.
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The attacks were ''the equivalent of bombing a TV station because you don't like one of the newscasters'', said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at internet security company F-Secure.
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The hackers used a botnet, a network of thousands of infected personal computers, to direct massive amounts of junk traffic to Cyxymu's pages on Twitter, LiveJournal, YouTube and Facebook in an attempt to disable them.The millions that were affected were, in a sense, simply bystanders, experiencing shrapnel from an internet blitzkrieg that took aim at one person and knocked out an entire community.
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shared by katherine ong on 10 Aug 09 - Cached

shared by Christoph Zed on 17 Sep 09 - Cached

President Barack Obama's candid thoughts about Kanye West are provoking a debate over standards of journalism in the Twitter age.
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But he said it is broadcast tradition that such pre-interview chatter is considered off the record until the formal interview begins.
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The incident is reminiscent of past "open-mic" incidents involving politicians
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"If you're sitting there with a microphone on, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy,
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"The president calling Kanye West a 'jackass' is perfect information for a tweet," she said. "In fact, that's the ideal format. You can do it in 140 characters. There's not much else to say."
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shared by anonymous on 08 Sep 09 - Cached

The "AIDS is a mass murderer" TV and cinema advert
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The new campaign, designed by Regenbogen e.V. in conjunction with the advertising agency das comitee, speaks in clear terms: its slogan is "AIDS is a mass murderer". It features the greatest mass murderers in recent history having sex. TWITTER PROFIL 
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The "Adolf" poster The "Saddam" poster The "Stalin" poster
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shared by glen donnar on 22 Jul 09 - Cached

shared by Christoph Zed on 12 Aug 09 - Cached

"People really want to do stuff real time and I think they (Twitter) have done a great job.
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"FriendFeed is well known for having some powerful and intelligent technology that allows users to aggregate everything they do online and do it all in real time.
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bility for users to import activities from third parties services like YouTube and Flickr to letting users comment or say they "like" something in another user's feed.
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