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Twitter Is Down. Occupy Wall St.To Blame?

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Twitter is down, and has been for about three hours by now. While there hasn’t been an official reason given for the issue, there are reports that the micro-blogging company agreed via court order to give up the deleted tweets of a member of Occupy Wall St. (Correction, they were messages sent via Twitter, not … Read more

Twitter Is Down As Of 9:05 AM, PDT

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Twitter is down as of 9:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time. This was confirmed at the Twitter Status Webpage with this note: Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue. So if you’re experiencing a slowly spinning refresh circle, it’s not your Internet connection, it’s Twitter. I don’t … Read more

Twitter Trend Analysis Tools Die: Trendistic Dead; Trendrr A Pay Site For Social TV

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Trendistic, once the go-to site for this blogger’s analysis of Twitter Trends, is no longer opening up when one goes to www.trendistic.com. And Trendrr, once the alternative to Trendistic, is now a Social TV pay-for-service site that tells nothing about true Twitter Trends. So, if you want to see how Twitter Trends change, where do … Read more

Google+ Suggested User List Is Overwhelmingly White

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The older I get the more I exhausted I am of pointing to this problem, but the one sign that the people who do this sort of thing are overwhelmingly dense, is the fact that they keep doing it: tech company managers who create these “suggested user lists” that wind up being overwhelmingly white. The … Read more