The anonymous call for a "jasmine revolution" in China's major cities was made online, first on a website run by overseas dissidents, then on Twitter, which despite being blocked is still widely used by activists in China. But unlike what happened in Tunisia and Egypt, where such efforts prompted massive street protests that eventually toppled both governments, the biggest response in China was from the state. Over the weekend the government rounded up lawyers, activists and dissidents, ...

Representative Anthony Weiner is not the first public figure to be undone by an errant hand on his Twitter. But he's now the most prominent person to be damaged by the very immediacy and reach that make Twitter such a powerful tool. One lapse of judgment — or one false click after several lapses of judgment — and a career implodes. For lack of a better word, let us call this increasingly common phenomenon twimmolation. In ...

Brian Ward lost his job on a Friday afternoon. Eleven days later he had a new one. With nearly 1 in 10 people out of work and the typical job search lasting 12 weeks, how did the Cleveland-based software architect pull it off? In a phrase: online social networking. Welcome to the new rules of the job hunt. Gone are the days of simply posting your rsum on CareerBuilder, e-mailing former colleagues and trolling company websites for open ...

It is either sublime or ridiculous that one of the most important tools available to Iranians protesting the June 12 presidential election is Twitter. A service that broadcasts short missives, or tweets, over the Web or via text message, Twitter is basically a toy for flirting and telling people what your cat is doing. But in one of the Internet's great Velveteen Rabbit moments, the toy has become real. The day after the election, when protests against President Mahmoud ...

Convened via Facebook and Twitter, thousands of demonstrators gathered in the square outside Rabat's El Had gate on Sunday. Shouting the now familiar slogans — "Down with dictatorship!" "End the corruption!" "We want change!" — they slowly marched down the city's central artery before coming to a halt at Morocco's Parliament building. There, as security forces maintained a watchful distance, young men brandishing megaphones and middle-aged women in djellabas drove the protest to a fever pitch, calling ...

Twitter has been hacked by Iranian cyber army on 18th DEc @ 12 AM CDT. page says that the website has been hacked by them with a symbol and twitter has been offline. Message says : USA think they controlling and managing internet by their access, but they don't, we control and manage internet by our power, so do not try to stimulation Iranian peoples to............... Now which country is in Embargo list? Iran?USA? We push them in Embargo list take care [caption id="attachment_24001" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Twitter ...

The concept of personal branding has been around for more than a decade, but the Internet and social networking have made it easier than ever to sell brand "you.""If you have a view that others want to hear, think about where your target audience goes for information and what media they consume, and then get your message to them," James told CNN. The Internet has made it easier than ever to reach out to your target audience. Blogging and social ...

Once upon a time royals and elites had to don elaborate disguises to mingle with their people. Now they have Twitter. Bruni's site, in a typically tongue-in-cheek style that has been criticized by some as pretentious, writes: "Three weeks after NATO, the Sarkozy couple's visit to Spain is once more an opportunity to compare the styles of First Ladies. As with Michelle Obama, it is a beauty contest between Princess Letizia, a former star journalist, and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, ex-top model. ...

Iraqi officials on Tuesday released security camera video of two weekend bombings that killed at least 155 people -- the deadliest attacks in the capital in more than two years. Bruni's site, in a typically tongue-in-cheek style that has been criticized by some as pretentious, writes: "Three weeks after NATO, the Sarkozy couple's visit to Spain is once more an opportunity to compare the styles of First Ladies. As with Michelle Obama, it is a beauty contest between Princess Letizia, ...

Sure, everyone knows that Oprah, Shaq and Ashton Kutcher are huge on Twitter. They're famous -- they should be huge on Twitter.