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• Pesky networking bug stings Twitter

  A networking equipment malfunction has disrupted Twitter, causing the microblogging site to become unavailable to users for hours on Wednesday and forcing company engineers to shut down key features to perform the repairs.

• Twitter gets serious about getting paid

  Twitter has is banning third-party advertisements on its site in a move to control the monetization and integrity of the micro-blogging service. The company is spinning the move, saying it's building a firewall that blocks out advertisements that tarnish Twitter's coherent "timeline." But the real issue here is money, as always. Twitter wants your dough to support its Promoted Tweets platform, rather than allowing every straggler into the party.

• Microsoft researchers test microblogging service

  Microsoft plans to start a small-scale pilot of a microblogging service aimed at business users that it has been experimenting with in Office Labs.

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  Me, me, me! 80% of Twitterers tweet mostly about themselves

  A vast majority of Twitter users are mainly interested in ... well, themselves.

• NewsGator upgrades Social Sites with microblogging

  NewsGator's Social Sites, an enterprise social-networking complement to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007, now features Twitter-like microblogging capabilities tailored for workplace communications.

• Tr.im goes open-source, founder questions bit.ly-Twitter link

  Little more than a week after Nambu Network said it was shutting down URL-shortener tr.im, and just days after the service was reactivated, its founder announced he would take the code open-source and give up the attractive URL.

• On a wing and a prayer, Twitter debuts at Western Wall

  Religion has teamed-up with IT to help keep a centuries-old tradition alive, as one of the most popular religious places of worship in the world jumps on-board the social networking bandwagon.

• Twitter trumps media to Jakarta blasts

  This morning's bomb blasts in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta have once again proved the ability of microblogging site Twitter to break news well ahead of traditional media.

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  Possible Twitter lawsuit would dive into murky blog waters

  If Twitter decides to sue Web sites and bloggers that published information pilfered from its systems by hackers, the company could be diving into murky and largely untested legal waters.

• Twitter spearheads Iranian elections coverage

  This past weekend, something strange happened in the U.S. media landscape: Twitter helped shape coverage of the Iranian elections protests.

• Twitter says no to ads; So how can site survive?

  With Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone ruling out advertising on the social network, the question for the online business world is: What will Twitter do to ensure it can survive the long-term?

• Twitter quitters are fleeing the site in droves

  Ask any high school kid - soaring popularity loses some of its luster if more than half of your new friends ditch you after the first month.

• Twitter's U.S. users nearly double in March

  Twitter Inc. continues to be on a roll.

• Report: Cloud computing poised for enterprise adoption

  Gartner has named cloud computing, green IT and social-computing platforms among technologies that are poised to reach broad enterprise adoption in the next two to five years.