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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech have issued a list of 9 tips for better tweeting based on a study of Twitter usefulness.

Censors, rejoice. Truth, at least via Twitter, can be blocked at your border.

The Google+ constellation just got a little brighter as popular singer Lady Gaga joins the new social network that is challenging Facebook.

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tweets that his company made a huge blunder with social networking roadkill Myspace.

If you’ve already created accounts for your business on major social media sites, then you know it can be incredibly time consuming to manage all of them. Sending out messages to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn takes an extra minute or two for each message. While that isn’t much at first, when you’re trying to send out dozens of messages a day it multiplies quickly. Luckily, you can quickly and easily tie these services together to send messages to more than one service at a time.

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch joins microblogging service Twitter, declares "vacations great time for thinking."

Mobile news site Phonedog is suing former employee Noah Kravitz for $340K, claiming it owns his Twitter followers. But what does PhoneDog owe Kravitz for his tweets?

Noah Kravitz worked for PhoneDog.com four years, started their Twitter feed, and kept it after he left with company blessing. Lawsuit time: the company now wants $340,000.

Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi insists he's not dead. The twitterverse suggests otherwise. What say you now, Mr. Livin' On A Prayer?

The wealthiest investor in the Arab world invests $300 million in Twitter, just months after the microblogging service received $800 million from Russian venture fund DST.

For the most part, I ignore Twitter redesigns, because most of my Tweeting (or Twittering?) is done via either the Tweetdeck app or on my iPhone, i use Echofon (third-party app). But apparently it's a big deal when they redesign, as witnessed by these two videos:

The blonde singer surpasses Google CEO Larry Page as the most-followed Google+ user. The search giant hopes she's the tip of the celebrity iceberg.