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MP Diane Abbott apologetic over Twitter race comments Comments Off

Posted on 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 ... Read More >>

Complainers spied on by big business Comments Off

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 ... Read More >>

NASA brings Twitter to space Comments Off

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 ... Read More >>

Twitter at Royal Opera House Comments Off

Posted on 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 ... Read More >>


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