Tweet Is Now a Real Word, and the Oxford English Dictionary Says So

Which came first, tweet or retweet?
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KatieCam Tweets to the Top: A Few More Questions for Twitter CEO Dick Costolo

Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, tells Katie Boehret how his theater background influences his leadership style, and explains his personal fashion.
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Celeb Tweets Samsung Galaxy S4 Love — From an iPhone

Spanish tennis player David Ferrer declares his love for the new Galaxy, but does so from the iPhone.
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Viral Video: Adorkable Tina Fey Thinks You Boring People Need a License to Tweet

Hey, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: Tina Fey is giving you a comic smackdown.
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Viral Video: Will Ferrell Is Worth Five Million Twits

Comedy site Funny or Die hits five million Twitter followers, and co-founder Ferrell marks the occasion appropriately. He also fires an intern.
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Pope to Bless Twitter With His Presence

Using the handle @pontifex (from the Latin for “bridge builder”), Pope Benedict XVI has joined the Twitterverse and will utter his first tweet Dec. 12. Got a question for His Holiness? The hashtag #askpontifex is already pulling in responses, and the Internet being what it is, not all of them treat the issues with reverence.

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Should Twitter Ban Hamas?

Should Twitter allow named terrorist groups to continue to tweet? Not according to a group of Republican House members, who have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to force the San Francisco-based social communications company to ban accounts of organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. “The FBI and Twitter must recognize sooner rather than later that social media is a tool for the terrorists,” said a letter fro, Rep. Ted Poe of Texas.

Keeping Up With Sandy on Twitter

There’s a storm coming.
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The $56 Million Man: Yahoo Confirms Hiring of Google’s De Castro as COO

Yes, that’s a lot of dough for the multi-lingual sales exec.
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