It did not occur to me as a surprise, when StumbleUpon decided to launch their new URL shortening service “Su.pr” back in June, 2009. Starting your own URL shortening service is not a new thing these days, Digg and Twit this services are already doing it.
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A lawsuit was the final thing required to push twitter into launching verified accounts now. Twitter has been dealing with a lawsuit from St. Lous Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa. The lawsuit is about an individual impersonating La Russa on Twitter. Twitter still does not have any systematic way to verify if any tweets were real or bogus.

This seems to be the reason that Twitter has announced verified accounts beta program so they do not have to handle any future lawsuits for such reasons.

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News have come that Chinese authorieties have further added more sites to there blocked website list on 2nd June 2009. Let me also tell you that there is a big list of social giants already blocked in china’s great firewall

Twitter is the one happens to be blocked this time. According to early reports on Twitter and on Blogs it appears that chinese authorities badly want to quitet down the entire majore social networking and social media part of the world. Read the full story

What is twitter? What is so good about tweeting? Why it is popular? Is twitter the future? These and many more are normally the questions  my friends are very keen to know these days and when I explain them the tweeting concept, they ask start comparing it to facebook

Well, the answer is not as simple as many of you may aspect. Both have very strong impact on social media. Facebook therefore is superior I would say right now as compared to twitter.

Facebook has a bigger picture; friends and family members use it to reconnect with each other, share pictures, videos and what they are doing whenever they want!

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