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Twitter, Flickr, others blocked by China's Great Firewall
arstechnica.com - 6/2/2009
Twitter, Flickr, others blocked by China's Great Firewall
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On the eve of the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, China has cracked down on online discussion of the event by blocking Twitter and a number of other Internet services. Users based around China have begun reporting that they can't access the popular 140-character ...
viaarena.com - 6/5/2009
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— viaarena.com — My grandparents have photos of my father as a kid, in albums. Whenever I ask my grandma... to show me those old black and white memories, she becomes so happy. She gets a twinkle in her eye when she opens up an album and starts telling me stories. The ... (more) Display Article

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Facing A Lawsuit And Complaints From Celebs, Twitter Launches Verified Accounts
techcrunch.com - 6/7/2009
Facing A Lawsuit And Complaints From Celebs, Twitter Launches Verified Accounts
— techcrunch.com — Twitter has faced harsh criticism from celebrities, including Kanye West, about impersonators creating unauthorized accounts on their... behalf. Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball franchise is suing Twitter ... (more) Facing A Lawsuit And Complaints From Celebs, Twitter ...

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news.cnet.com - 6/1/2009
Study: Young adults haven't warmed up to Twitter
— news.cnet.com — While 99 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have profiles on social networks, only 22 percent use Twitter,... according to a new survey from Pace University and the Participatory Media Network . This is consistent with what some observers have said ... (more) Study: Young adults haven't warmed up to Twitter

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China Blocking Internet Services as Tiananmen Anniversary Nears — Digital Trends
In 1989, pro-democracy students, intellectuals, and activists began staging protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, culminating on June when the Chinese government sent in tanks to break up the protests…an action which led to photographer Jeff Widener's world-famous ...
China blocks Twitter service ahead of anniversary — DriverHeaven.net
BEIJING (Reuters) - Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China on Tuesday afternoon, two days before the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown. Before dawn on June 4, 1989, tanks rolled into ...
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