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10.17.2009 11:01 pm

St. Louis’ own Jack Dorsey’s new post-Twitter venture

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When Jack Dorsey - cofounder of Twitter - was in St. Louis last month, he mentioned this new venture he’s been working on since stepping down as Twitter’s chief executive. (He’s still chairman.)

So far, he’s hasn’t said a whole lot…

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10.13.2009 1:37 pm

How to disconnect yourself from a linked-in world

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Friend of mine from New Jersey was in town this weekend to see a Rams game with me. (Really, you’d think I could have come up with something a little more entertaining.) We started talking about how much his wife…

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10.05.2009 12:48 pm

Anarchist/twitter user nabbed by police for his recon work

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Interesting story over at Ars Technica about an anarchist who was arrested by the authorities over his use of police scanners and social media site Twitter. Seems Elliot Madison was listening in on police activity and then passing along the information,…

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09.28.2009 11:20 am

@Main Street? Twitter account name given to a street

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Doubt this is going to be catching on in many places, but the world may have just had its first street named for a Twitter account. This, according to a story at Wired.com.

It’s actually something something of a stretch, given…

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09.18.2009 3:31 pm

Here are a few interesting things about Twitter and its founder

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Went out today to listen to one of St. Louis own stars in the world of technology speak at Webster University.

Of course, not a lot of people realize this, but the guy who came up with the idea for microblogging…

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08.17.2009 12:15 pm

Breaking down the value of all the tweeting on Twitter

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This probably isn’t terribly surprising, given what we know about Twitter and the stream of consciousness platform it offers users. But a recent study of Twitter traffic found that 40 percent of the content is pretty much senseless babble.

A story…

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08.06.2009 11:52 am

Twitter knocked out of service by attackers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There’s a bit of a crisis going on in the world of Twitter this morning, as attackers have knocked it offline using an old-school denial of service attack.

Wired.com says the social networking site was silenced for several hours by the attack,…

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07.21.2009 12:53 pm

How to quickly gain “popularity” on Twitter - for a price

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Anyone who starts a new Twitter account is going to find themselves facing an uphill struggle to get into the cool crowd - the folks with all the followers. It is, after all, a world where your relative worth is…

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07.16.2009 6:38 pm

Hacker’s bounty offers an inside glimpse of Twitter

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you have the slightest interest in micro-blogging site Twitter, you might want to spend a bit of time over at TechCrunch.

An alleged hacker sent the Web site several hundred documents earlier this week, claiming they had been pilfered from…

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07.07.2009 2:07 pm

Tony La Russa drops lawsuit against Twitter

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cardinals manager Tony La Russa’s lawsuit against Twitter has come to an end, according to the Associated Press.

La Russa filed his lawsuit in May against the micro blogging site, complaining about an impostor posting rather vicious comments. Apparently, La Russa quietly…

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