After getting lost in the train cat reunites with its owner via Twitter

A suburban cat wandered onto a city-bound train in Dublin, Ireland only to emerge at a city center station. Rail staff took care of it and used CCTV to figure out which station the cat boarded at, and through Twitter, cat and owner were reunited. The cat named Lilou was rewarded with a new rail pass that allows her to ride any train for the rest of her nine lives.

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One Man is Going toTweet the Bible Over Three Years

A UK worship director has planned to tweet the Christian Bible — or summaries of each chapter, at least — from Genesis to Revelation, one chapter each day.

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Twitter is going to Launch Official Tweet Buttons This Week



The Tweet button could launch as soon as this Thursday. Twitter is not saying anything about the new button just yet. The feature is mostly complete and is already working, meaning that you can embed the code on your site and the button will show up. However, most users won’t be able to retweet a link with it just yet. There are three versions of the button (110×20, 55×20, 55×63) with five different settings for customization.

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MTV Finally Selects First Twitter Jockey

NEW YORK – MTV has named 23-year-old Gabi Gregg, a blogger from Detroit, its first «Twitter Jockey.»

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Bit.ly Button - jQuery Plugin for Your Clicky Post Link topic

bit.ly -The intelligent URL shortener- offers realtime statistics about the clicks on shortened links and this button takes advantage of that information. This jQuery button give you a uniform click count button -tall or wide- that people can also use it to retweet your post.

Twitter reached 20 Billion Tweets

According to tracking service GigaTweet there have now been more than 20 billion tweets since Twitter’s origination.

The period comes just two months after the service hit 15 billion tweets and about five months since it reached 10 billion, indicating that activity levels on the microblogging service continue to accelerate.

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No One Would Pay To Use Twitter



A recent survey showed that zero percent of users would be willing to pay to use Twitter or a similar service.There may be plenty of ways for Twitter to make money, but it doesn't look like charging membership pay off will be one of them.

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Twitter’s new deal service, EarlyBird cooperates with Groupon and Gilt

Twitter’s new flash deal service, EarlyBird, kicked off today with an introductory deal from Walt Disney Co. for a free ticket to see its latest film, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”

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Twitter users not so social after all

2010-03-10
For the original article in CNN Money, Click Here.

-By Julianne Pepitone

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Twitter may be a fast-growing social network, but most of its 50 million accounts merely follow other users rather than posting their own messages.

In fact, a whopping 73% of Twitter accounts have tweeted fewer than 10 times according to a new report from Barracuda Networks, a Web security company.

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100 Fantastic Twitter Profiles for your Inspiration



One of the newest concept of web design has been Twitter. Twitter allows users to engage with the site and interact with each other. Twitter has showed endless possibilities for web designers because you can display any updates, information or fun facts about yourself and the site. The more followers you have, more impact you have on this vast world of internet. It can also help you increase your site traffic, gain status and make a firm identity on the web. Creative twitter profiles promotes this idea and makes users want to follow you and your progress as it allows you to display your talent. You could make a collage, a vector illustration or contact information in your background. So, here are some of the best twitter profiles for your inspiration.

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