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July 29, 2011 The Obama re-election campaign unleashed the Twitter dogs of political war, Friday, urging voters to tweet Republican lawmakers to encourage them to compromise on debt-ceiling and deficit-reduction legislation.

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July 28, 2011 With the debt-ceiling hanging Damoclean over Capitol Hill, politicians may not be speaking to each other very much, but they are using the latest technogadgetry to talk with – or, at least, to —their constituents.

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July 14, 2011 When the verdict for the Casey Anthony trial was announced, people reacted strongly in every way and in every form. The case was already a televised event but social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook took the uproar to new heights.

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July 13, 2011 Social and computer scientists are figuring out how to mine Tweets for intelligence of all sorts. Now some resourceful researchers are figuring out ways to mine Twitter data to find health trends.

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July 6, 2011 Obama's "I don't think we should even get to the constitutional issue" is not the same as "no." He clearly doesn't want to get there but it sure sounded like he was keeping all his options open, including what some are calling his nuclear option of just ignoring the ceiling.That would trigger a constitutional crisis even if it averted a default crisis.

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July 6, 2011 President Obama responded to questions that came in through Twitter via #AskObama.

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July 6, 2011 When you're a U.S. president, you can never have too many followers. So it makes sense, then, that President Obama would eventually turn to that ultimate population of followers, the 140-character delimited Twitterverse by holding the first White House Twitter town hall Wednesday.At the event scheduled to start at 2 pm eastern time and "presented" by Twitter, people will be able to tweet their questions to the hashtag #AskObama.

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July 5, 2011 Over the weekend, someone posted messages on the page claiming that President Obama had been killed. It was about 10 hours before they were removed. Hackers who call themselves The Script Kiddies claimed responsibility.

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May 12, 2011 One of Libya's first citizen journalists tells the story of his escape to Tunisia and the two months he was forced to spend offline, causing many of his online contacts to fear he was dead.

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May 10, 2011 No laughs and no real secrets. Just the facts, folks, so far. But maybe sometime we'll see a little inside dope about the POTUS, FLOTUS or VPOTUS?

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March 16, 2011 The social media platform got off the ground five years ago this month, with this momentous tweet from co-founder Jack Dorsey: inviting coworkers.

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