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January 05, 2012
Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott today apologised for any offence that was possibly caused by the comments she yesterday made on Twitter, following claims that they were racist.
Abbott said that she didn't mean to generalise after writing that: ''White people love playing 'divide & rule'". The comments came as a ...
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World News
Posted on
June 07, 2010
Some of the leading UK companies stand accused of spying on customers who make complaints.
Carphone Warehouse, easyJet and BT have all been named as part of a clique of big businesses that have employed specially developed software which enables them to wade through social networking sites such as Twitter and ...
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Experience Days, business
Posted on
January 25, 2010
Thanks to a NASA software upgrade, social networking website Twitter has shot into space.
The American space agency has introduced software upgrades on the international space station which enables astronauts to update their feeds without assistance.
The station spacecraft has been fitted with a high-powered wireless connection between groundlings and orbiters thus ...
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August 11, 2009
The Deloitte Ignite festival in September 2009 will feature an experiment using Twitter in the style of a crowd-sourced opera and will be presented at the Covent Garden's Royal Opera.
This opera project is co-authored from scratch with a multitude of Twitter users writing 140 characters at a time to the ...
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Experience Days, Nights Out, Shows, Events & Gigs