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On Thursday, Twitter posted a new censorship policy, stating that it will now have the ability to “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world.”

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Misguided efforts to combat online privacy have been threatening to stifle innovation, suppress free speech, and even, in some cases, undermine national security. As of yesterday, though, there’s a lot less to worry about.

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Twitter for the first time today offered measurements of how many people actively use its product and how those numbers are growing.

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One of the online tools for connecting with others is Twitter. You can find people who have completed Ph.D. programs, and those who work in academia. If you are looking for some first-rate academics to follow on Twitter, here are 33 suggestions:

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There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use more general terms. Following that idea will eventually lead… somewhere.

It also sounded like an idea that would be easily examinable with basic client-side scripting tools, using the Wikipedia API and a good graphing package. I put something together here based on JQuery and the JavaScript InfoViz Toolkit. It makes use of the HTML5 <canvas> element, so support for Internet Explorer is provided by the Google excanvas package.

Gnip provides social media data to businesses that build realtime social media integrations into their business and consumer applications. Receiving your social data from Gnip enables easy integration of massive quantities of realtime social data into your product, legally and reliably. Many of the largest social media monitoring companies in the world rely on Gnip to provide them with data from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and dozens more sources. Whether you want keyword-specific data, username-specific data, or a full or partial firehose stream of data, Gnip can be your social media data provider.

My name is Jeremy Leaird-Koch. I am a multi-disciplinary digital media engineer living in San Francisco, offering services in video editing, post-production, and audio engineering. I also DJ and create music.

A Twittering Critic Prepares for the Final Tweet

As Egypt moved Monday to shut down its sole operating Internet service provider, Google and Twitter teamed up to create a service for people to send tweets from the nation through a phone call.

The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter and social media.

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TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you're interested in.

We make it easy for you to subscribe to each category and the most popular through our RSS feeds and Twitter accounts. You can find out more about these through our help pages.

The OAuth guide is currently being rewritten to catch up with the latest OAuth revision and latest information. The completed parts of the new guide are available now. To stay up to date about all things OAuth,

A new study paints the popular micro-blogging service Twitter in a whole new light and sets it up to take on traditional news media.

Twitalyzer is the market leading social media analytics application focusing on short-messaging media. Here are five reasons that Social Media Experts around the world are using Twitalyzer!

Our open technology platform is well known and Twitter APIs are already widely implemented but this is a different approach because we’ve created something incredibly simple. Rather than implementing APIs, site owners need only drop in a few lines of javascript. This new set of frameworks is called @anywhere.

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The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a national discussion and modifying privacy laws as necessary for the online era.

Scientists Break Brain/Twitter Barrier
University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a "brain wave monitor" to Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and publish it to the arguably too-popular microblogging service.

The power of Twitter is in the people you follow. Let @nytimes lead you to the best of Twitter: follow our lists or build your own. Suggestions? twitterlists@nytimes.com

TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you're interested in.

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Facebook and other social media sites have invaded college admissions in a big way. But the great rush to use social media also raises questions about privacy and appropriate relations between administrators and students. Desperate applicants might attempt to improve their admissions chances by "friending" counselors. Conversely, counselors might use social media profiles to search for red flags on certain candidates or to assemble information for targeted recruiting pitches. In 2008, a company created false Facebook sites for many universities in hopes of grabbing personal information for marketing purpose

Twitterrific comes in first place, Tweetie a close second, the open source Canary a somewhat distant third, and market leader TweetDeck has difficulties crossing the finish line.

So which to choose? They're all good in their own ways. Try them all. Just keep track of what ends up where. At the end of the day you'll still be using the web interface anyway.

One of the big problems is how we converse. Typing still leaves something to be desired as a communication tool; it lacks the nuances that can be expressed by body language and voice inflection. "Online, people can't see the yawn," says Patricia Wallace, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth and author of "The Psychology of the Internet."

Musician who asks her fans for ideas, artwork and remixes and makes vBlogs calls to mind Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush

The social network's inaction around security issues shows that it needs a security chief.