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Twitter Tweaks Who to Follow People Search, But Serves Up Limited Results (2011-04-05): Twitter announced it has made some updates to its Who to follow feature on Twitter.
The Social Network Wins Three Oscars (2011-02-28): The Social Network - which was based on the formation of Facebook - won three Oscars at last night's 83rd Academy Awards.
Aaron Sorkin Wins Best Screenplay at Golden Globes (2011-01-17): Aaron Sorkin won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards for his script, The Social Network.
The Social Network Wins Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (2011-01-17): The Social Network was named the Best Motion Picture in the drama category at last night's Golden Globe Awards.
MySpace Cuts Workforce in Half (2011-01-11): MySpace was unable to keep up with the torrid growth of rivals, Facebook.
Survey: 29% of Teens Want to Unfriend Parents on Facebook (2010-08-24): A new AOL survey, conducted by The Nielsen Company, reveals the challenges of modern day parenting in a world with social networking.
Stephen Fry Selects the Most Beautiful Tweet Ever Tweeted (2010-06-10): There it is. The most beautiful tweet ever tweeted according to Stephen Fry.
Library of Congress to Archive All Tweets (2010-04-15): The Library of Congress (LOC) will be archiving all of your tweets.
Twitter Begins Local Trending Topics (2010-01-24): Mashable reports that Twitter has started rolling out local trending topics.
Twijote Project to Put Text of Don Quixote on Twitter (2010-01-14): Fans of Cervante's Don Quixote de la Mancha are determined to put the entire book on Twitter, one tweet at a time.
Jim Carrey's Twitter Bird (2009-11-07): Jim Carrey's bizarre new website should win the award for best version of a Twitter bird.
Celebrity Twitter Accounts Among Most Listed Twitter Accounts (2009-11-01): There are some blog posts discussing the most listed Twitter accounts that claim Mashable is the second most listed Twitter account.
Barack Obama, Taylor Swift Are Most Listed Twitterers (2009-10-29): President Barack Obama and Taylor Swift appear to be the most listed people or organizations on Twitter as of this writing.
The Onion Covers Parents Facebook Stalking Their College-Aged Kids (2009-10-24): The Onion has a pretty hilarious video about how parents can use Facebook and Twitter to keep tabs on their children.
Oh Lord. It's the 5 Billionth Tweet (2009-10-19): This tweet by Robin Sloan is apparently the 5 billionth tweet on Twitter.
Big Mouth Billy Bass Connected To Twitter (2009-10-14): A clever individual has connected his Big Mouth Billy Bass to Twitter using an mbed microcontroller. Now you do it at home.
Michael Jackson Has Most Popular Facebook Page (2009-07-07): AllFacebook reports that Michael Jackson is now the most popular person on Facebook.
Bing Search Returns Tweet From Popular Twitter Accounts (2009-07-02): Microsoft's new search engine Bing is now indexing tweets from some popular Twitter accounts.
Retweeting Basics From CNN (2009-06-29): Naamua Delaney talked about the power of retweeting on Twitter with CNN.
SeaWorld Launches Shamu Twitter (2009-04-15): SeaWorld's Shamu is on Twitter.