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Twitter hits 500 million users
Twitter became the second social network to hit the milestone on Wednesday afternoon and is currently adding 14 new accounts per second.
Rick Santorum takes the lead on Twitter
On Twitter, at least, the 2012 GOP race has a new front-runner.
Wrestler CM Punk to Chris Brown: “Get in the ring”
After a heated exchange on Twitter, the WWE superstar pledged to forcefully put the singer in his place.
Sooner scandal! Coach caught using Twitter to recruit players
Assistant football coach Jay Norvell tweeted nearly identical scholarship offers on Tuesday to six different high school players, violating NCAA rules.
R.L. Stine gives Twitter goosebumps
To borrow a quote from the back cover of Goosebumps Series 2000, "Welcome to the new millennium of fear.”
For actor Rainn Wilson, rape is no laughing matter—unless IBM's "Watson" is involved
For the second time, Rainn Wilson from The Office tweeted an offensive rape joke on Twitter—and gained 500 new followers after apologizing.
Twitter inks deal with Russian search engine
Yandex provides new way to search real-time tweets—but you still can’t google them.
Nothing's shocking: Perry Farrell can't take @LollaLeaks' little joke
A Twitter parody account "leaked" the lineup for Lollapalooza, leading the festival founder to liken @LollaLeaks to a sex offender.
Palestinian prisoner ends hunger strike after Twitter outreach
Shortly after his cause became a worldwide trending top on Twitter, Khader Adnan finally ate for the first time in more than 60 days.
French preschoolers learn through tweeting (but will Twitter let them?)
A teacher's experiment may end up with a hard lesson, since 5-year-olds aren't supposed to be on Twitter.
A female critic of video games gets labeled a "cancer"
Jennifer Brandes Hepler of prominent video-game studio BioWare is getting vilified for suggesting that games would be better with less killing and more dialogue.
Egyptian revolution reveals Twitter's disappearing act
Twitter records history in the moment. But a new study shows that roughly 10 percent of tweets and images are being lost over time.
Twitter fail of the day: "Believe It's Not Butter"
When I Can't Believe It's Not Butter shortened its name to comply with Twitter's character limits, hilarity quickly spread.
Four Twitter parody accounts of France's Sarkozy suspended
The sweeping move came shortly after the French president signed up for Twitter last week.
"Scrubs" creator tries out "Twitter casting" for new pilot
Bill Lawrence turned to Twitter to find to find a young actor for his new Fox pilot Like Father. There's still time to submit your audition tape.
Epic Twitter fight between two sports journalists!
It kind of makes you wonder how sports reporters credited each other before the advent of Twitter.
Disturbia: Twitter debates the rekindled romance of Rihanna and Chris Brown
"What is there to learn from the Chris Brown and Rihanna situation?" asked Ferrari Sheppard on Twitter. Judging from the range of reactions—plenty.
One does not simply create memes by tweeting them
Unless you're Meme Robot, that is. Internet image macros will never be the same.
Twitter now flies in Macs
Once again, Apple shows its favor to the message-broadcasting community.
Floyd Mayweather, Spike Lee, and America’s misunderstood #linsanity
The sudden rise of New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin has brought out troubling stereotypes about Asians across traditional and social media.
Obama's campaign manager is called out on Twitter
When Obama's campaign manager quoted the Washington Post on Twitter, referencing Latinos and chimichangas, he created quite ruckus.
Heavy meddling: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine stumps for Rick Santorum
To quote Chris Regan, "Sheets smell, but who's wiping?"
Adele's ex-boyfriend kisses and tells in parody account
See what's on the other side of Adele's "Cold Shoulder."
Sarkozy says bonjour to Twitter to help launch reelection campaign
The jump to Twitter comes on the heels of the French president switching his Facebook page last week to a more visually appealing Timeline.
