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The revolution that wasn't The revolution that wasn't

3. There's no evidence that the hot social networking site played any role in Iran's spring revolt
  • Adventures in branding: StockTwits

    Where traders gather in cyberspace to share tips and commentary. Truth in advertising?
  • How Facebook and Twitter warp your brain

    Tweet this and watch your IQ fall: A psychologist says micro-blogging makes us stupid. But not Facebook!
  • Facebook and the brutal economics of connection

    Social media applications facilitate the trivial and meaningless -- and help us stay afloat in choppy waters
  • Hu Jintao is no Kaiser Wilhelm

    Historian Niall Ferguson says "Chimerica" is doomed. Kaiser Kuo disagrees, amid a storm of Twitter porn
  • Addicted to Twitter

    How I learned that I was powerless over micro-blogging and my life had become unmanageable
  • Twittering against terrorism

    How many tweets will it take till we know, that too many Basque car bombs have exploded?
  • The lovely peril of Twitter seduction

    In a world already driven mad by byte-size information overload, do we need more hyper-distraction?Sure, why not?
  • HTWW joins the Twitterverse

    Because blogging four times a day isn't distracting enough!
  • Who needs newspapers when you have Twitter?

    Chris Anderson, Wired's editor in chief, discusses the Internet's challenge to the traditional press
  • Here comes Pfizer's Twitter army

    If comely sales reps don't succeed, let loose the dogs of social media!
  • Why we can't stop looking

    Have we moved from pop culture to "peep culture"? Hal Niedzviecki on an age of Facebook, Twitter and reality TV
  • Hey, authors, don't tweet in anger!

    Alice Hoffman continues the literary tradition of lashing out at critics, Twitter style. Who's sorry now?
  • Iran? The U.S. should mind its own business

    Iranian-American journalist Hooman Majd separates facts from fantasies about the Iranian protests
  • Tiananmen's bloody lessons for Tehran

    When the rulers are willing to open fire, all the tweeting and YouTube videos in the world are as good as dust
  • Hoekstra compares GOP to Iran protesters

    The congressman likened the use of Twitter in Iran to what House Republicans did during a protest of their own
  • The minister of Twitter

    India's Shashi Tharoor shows juvenile American politicians how micro-blogging should be done.
  • Twitter's moment of Chinese truth

    A new medium hits the big time: No tweeting about Tiananmen, declare the commissars
  • Join the shame parade

    From Kate Gosselin to Elizabeth Edwards to Facebook users, the scorned are flaunting humiliation like never before.
  • Call me Ishmael. The end.

    Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction.
  • I am the champion, my friends

    Finally, a legitimate use for Twitter: Winning a signed photo of Karl Rove in his weekly trivia contest.
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