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Note to self: Don’t tweet location when visiting Iraq.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a congressman who is known as a leader in using social networking to keep his constituents informed, may have gone a little too far in a recent trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. He is now being criticized [...]

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Check this out, you can now get your favorite tweets printed up as t-shirts.
TWItoShirt simply lets you enter the URL for your favorite tweet and order it on a t-shirt. The tweet appears on the shirt just like it does on the web.
The message, the username, the user picture, and the time are printed on [...]

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Have you ever seen a Twitter meltdown?  I just have and it is not pretty.
I can only assume that this fellow was having a bad week.  We’re not exactly sure how it all went down, but the account owner did post the following over on GetSatisfaction:
Twitter has not closed my account as [...]

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For the first time ever, Twitter has now passed Digg in U.S.-based traffic.
Twitter climbed to the #84 spot in market share last week while Digg landed at #85, according to new data just released by Hitwise. The data analysis company credits the heavy Twitter traffic related to the U.S. Airways crash into the [...]

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