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Facebook Continues To CTRL+C Twitter
They say imitation’s the sincerest form of flattery, but whoever ‘they’ are I’m inclined to disagree. As someone who was Single White Female’d in the past, my personal stance on it is that imitation is not flattery at all, it’s annoying and a little sad at best, and at worst downright creepy. With yesterday’s latest... »
Facebook Puts Google And Twitter On Notice
In what many industry pundits are considering a direct attack against search giant Google, social networking site Facebook have purchased the ‘real-time’ search engine FriendFeed. While many were expecting Google or even micro-blogging site Twitter to purchase the content sharing site, which has become popular with the increasingly social nature of the web, Facebook’s acquisition... »
Twitter Hack Attack
Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter has been hacked by a ‘denial of service attack’ leaving the entire site down from around 15:00 BST. Twitter had to defend against the attack thus closing down the site and leaving many of the 45 million + users unable to Tweet. Facebook suffered a similar problem at the same time and although... »