freedom of speech be damned

(via Rashard Mendenhall tries to clarify bin Laden tweets - ESPN)

May 06, 2011, 9:41am

Twitter meets high literature…

US students hope to bring Twitterature to the masses

s there no end to Twittermania? Last week we saw the social networking tool Twitter deployed on the streets of Tehran. This week, moving seamlessly from the sublime to the ridiculous, it is being used to aid the digestion of the world’s greatest literature.

Fans of the classics will either be delighted or appalled to learn that the New York-branch of Penguin books has commissioned a new volume that will put great works through the Twitter mangle. The volume has a working title that will make the nerve ends of purists jangle: Twitterature.

June 24, 2009, 1:44pm

So twitter is world changing?

Twitter responds on Iranian role

Twitter has distanced itself from State Department revelations that it asked the company to delay maintenance so Iranians could continue to communicate.

Twitter is one of the social networking tools being used by people inside the country to coordinate protests disputing the election result.

June 17, 2009, 3:55pm