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Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts

Friday, June 10, 2011

Alleged Weiner nude photo released by radio hosts, Update Posted by Meosha Eaton


LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - An alleged photo of Congressman Anthony Weiner's genitals hit the Internet on Wednesday after conservative watchdog Andrew Breitbart shared it with a pair of radio DJs who then tweeted it to the masses.

Breitbart had said repeatedly he had no intention of releasing the photo unless the embattled politician launched a "jihad" against him.

Monday, January 31, 2011

Google creates Twitter work around for Egypt, Posted by Meosha Eaton

* Lets people use Twitter without Internet connection
* Translates voicemail into Twitter messages
(refiles to fix typo in headline)

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Google Inc launched a special service to allow people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by dialing a phone number and leaving a voicemail, as Internet access continues to be cut off in the country amid anti-government protests.

"Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground," read a post on Google's official corporate blog on Monday.

The service, which Google said was developed with engineers from Twitter, allows people to dial a telephone number and leave a voicemail. The voicemail is automatically translated into a message that is sent on Twitter using the identifying tag #egypt, Google said.

Google said in the blog post, titled "Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard," that no Internet connection is required to use the service. Google listed three phone numbers for people to call to use the service.

Internet social networking services like Twitter and Facebook have been important tools of communications for protesters in Egypt.

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Bill Trott)