Tweeting for Sweden: Trucks, Coffee, Breasts and Cats

Hanna Fange has been sending out her personal tweets on Sweden’s official twitter account as part of a program to let a different Swedish citizen take over the account each week.

Retweeting Bad Grammar

Is it wise to correct other people’s typos, misspellings and grammatical errors when retweeting?

Cartel Violence and Social Media in Mexico

In violent parts of Mexico, social media outlets have become valuable channels for an emerging network of citizen journalists and concerned citizens.

Twitter Drives Hot Stock Strategy

A hedge fund is making lots of money using a new program that mines Twitter to determine emotions among the population to help decide buying and selling strategies.

Notorious Spammer Brought Down Via Twitter

A science blogger explains the case of notorious spammer ‘Mabus’.

Rupert Murdoch’s Wife’s Reputation Improves in China

Wendi Deng stepped in to save her husband from a protester who threw a foam pie at him.

What’s Assyrian for Canuck?

One of the world’s first written languages gets a new 21-volume dictionary.

Why France Outlawed Twitter and Facebook Language

What’s behind France’s new law on Twitter and Facebook in broadcasting?

Twitter fires up privacy debate in Britain

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Twitter has found itself in the middle of a fierce debate in Britain about privacy and press freedom. Judges in England have been granting gag orders against the traditional media – including one concerning a prominent soccer player and his alleged affair. The injunction prohibits the media from identifying him or reporting the story. Twitter users though, have named him – over and over again. Laura Lynch reports on the legal and political fallout. Download MP3

Twitter’s super-injunction surge

‘There goes the neighborhood’

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Sohaib Athar, a resident of Abbottabad, Pakistan, live-tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden compound. His reaction to bin Laden’s death, on Twitter, was “there goes the neighborhood.” The World’s Marco Werman explores the various possible meanings of that phrase. Download MP3
Storify: Athar’s tweets during the raid

English-only in the US, translating tweets in Japan and satire in Egypt

The English Only movement in the United States is always active during times of high immigration. Now, the movement has got a shot in the arm from the Tea Party. It may help convince lawmakers and voters in the 19 remaining states that don’t yet have a law on their books declaring English to be the official language [...]

Tech Podcast: Revisiting past nuclear accidents

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In this week’s Technology Podcast, look into past nuclear accidents at Chernobyl (pictured), Three Mile Island, and Tokaimura to understand the current events at Fukushima in Japan. We’ll try to give you some historical perspective on the breaking news. (Photo: Elena Filatova) Download MP3 (36:09)

Undoing the overshare in social networking

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Social networking sites make is easy to share our lives online. But, too much sharing can be disastrous. People have been fired or have seen their marriages fall apart because of a picture posted online that they had forgotten about. Numerous projects are underway to give people the ability to remove the offending material. The World’s Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd reports. Download MP3

Middle Eastern cartoonists on Egypt (updated Feburary 4, 2011)

Political cartoonists across the Middle East are drawing pyramids, camels, chairs, empty chairs, pharaohs, heiroglyphs  and contemporary images like smartphones and tweets to comment on the political revolution unfolding in Egypt.

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Tech Podcast: Social networks past, present and future

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Ah, a good old-fashioned wedding, organized entirely via Facebook and Twitter. In a special BBC series, we’ll take a look at “The Secret History of Social Networking.” We’ll find out how social networks got started, and where they might be headed. Download MP3 (27:04)