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Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over the company's new country-by-country censorship policy, complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind of shorthand that has made Twitter popular. Ref. Source 8

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Brazil files injunction against Twitter

A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments' requests. Ref. Source 1

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Man sues Twitter over hate blog

Twitter is being sued for defamation for the first time under Australian law. Ref. Source 1

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How the web's changing entertainment

If a tree falls in a forest and no one tweets about it, how can it trend? If no one follows you, are you virtually dead? Is it acceptable to use hash-tags in conversation? Ref. Source 9

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Stars share their meanest tweets

To celebrate the 6th anniversary of Twitter, Jimmy Kimmel had celebrities (including Will Ferrell, Roseanne and Kirsten Bell) read aloud the most poisonous tweets they've received. Ref. Source 1

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Twitter to surrender protester's tweets

Twitter is expected to hand over tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York criminal judge on Friday after months of unsuccessfully fighting a subpoena from prosecutors, the protester's lawyer said on Thursday. Ref. Source 5

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After lawsuit threat, Twitter to pull racist posts

Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for running afoul of national laws against hate speech, the organization said. The decision came a day after Twitter bowed to German law and blocked an account of a banned neo-Nazi group there. Ref. Source 1

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Twitter offered Instagram $525m deal: report

Weeks before he accepted a US$1 billion offer from Facebook Inc, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom had verbally agreed to sell his photo-sharing company to Twitter Inc for US$525 million in March - but then called off the deal, according to a New York Times report citing unnamed sources. Ref. Source 8