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Mad Men Twitter
Tech Buzz The Twitter accounts for Mad Men characters like Don Draper and Peggy Olson have been deactivated after Twitter received a DMCA takedown notice from AMC. What appeared to be a clever viral marketing scheme turned out to be unauthorized fan fiction, and generated a mini-backlash among the Twitterati.
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John Cleese’s Twitter
Celebrity Buzz He's been twittering since June, but John Cleese just got noticed by a thousand new followers. He's taking it well. (And yes, this seems to truly be Cleese.) The Monty Python alum is also blogging and "headcasting."
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Obama Wins Twitter
Politics Buzz He's now the most-followed on Twitter. John McCain, meanwhile, doesn't seem to have a Twitter account, but he is winning the YouTube wars.
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Identi.ca
Tech Buzz Another take on the Twitter model of microblogging, and this time it's open source. The funny thing is how popular the service seems to already be with current users of Twitter -- they're excited about something that doesn't seem to be down most of the time.
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Image: Fail Whale
The image you see when Twitter is down (which is often), has a fan club.
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Twiddict
Tech Buzz A new backup for Twitter. Post your tweets through Twiddict, and it will save them until Twitter is up and running again and then post them to your account. It's like the first step in admitting you have a problem.
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John Tesh Twitters!
Celebrity Buzz The Entertainment Tonight co-host-cum-bad music powerhouse Twitters! Really! Somewhere, Mary Hart is still figuring out what "Random Play" means.
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Twittering The China Earthquake
Tech Buzz Twitter updates provided breaking news on the major quake near Chengdu, China. Twitter users, coordinated largely through the efforts of Robert Scoble, were providing news of the earthquake -- including first-hand accounts -- before mainstream news sites began reporting about the 7.8 quake. (Related: Twittering wildfires.)
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James Karl Buck
Tech Buzz A graduate student named James Karl Buck helps free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone. The post was broadcast using the micro-blogging platform Twitter. He is currently trying to save his translator Mohammed Maree, who is still being held. Apparently Twitter has other uses besides broadcasting pithy thoughts and mundane activity lists to your friends. It just goes to show that if it weren't for web 2.0, we'd probably all be jobless, in jail, or dead.
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