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Ashton Kutcher: Media REALLY Messed Up Twitter

Twitter used to be cool, but the media has brought too much "noise" to it, angel investor Ashton Kutcher tells the CTIA Wireless conference.

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Kids Turn To Twitter, Shun Facebook 'Drama'

Teen use of Twitter has grown significantly, a new report into social media networks shows, while Facebook is losing market share to its quick-messaging rival.

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Twitter's First Star

"If you can name five Kardashians but can't name five countries in Asia, stick a knife in an electrical socket."

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Conscious Computing: How To Take Control Of Your Life Online

Back in the summer of 2008 – a long time ago, in internet terms, two years before Instagram, and around the time of Twitter's second birthday – the US writer Nicholas Carr published a now famous essay in the Atlantic magazine entitled Is Google Making Us Stupid? The more time he spent online, Carr reported, the more he experienced the sensation that something was eating away at his brain. "I'm not thinking the way I used to think," he wrote. Increasingly, he'd sit down with a book, but then find himself unable to focus for more than two or three pages: "I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text." Reading, he recalled, used to feel like scuba diving in a sea of words. But now "I zip along the surface like a guy on a jetski."

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13 Amusing Tweets From GS Elevator (SFW)

The GS Elevator twitter account now has cult status - and over 439,000 followers. Here's some of their near-to-the-mark tweets (they are safe for work):

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Sir Alex Ferguson's Retirement Proves A Big Hit On Twitter

If you want an idea of the reverence with which Sir Alex Ferguson is held, Twitter has an easy guideline: more than Margaret Thatcher, but less – so far – than the new Pope.

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Twitter CEO Costolo Tells New Grads To Be 'Bold'

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo gave a pretty hilarious commencement speech on Saturday at the University of Michigan.

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PICTURE: David Luiz laughs as Rafael sees red!

David Luiz and Rafael decided to have a little Brazilian spat in the corner at Old Trafford today; which ended in farcical scenes.

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Deutsche and UBS In U.S. Hires, Twitter Hires Morgan Stanley MD

Deutsche Bank has hired three people for its U.S. investment-grade debt group, including an analyst and two traders.

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Warren Buffett Has Tweeted

Never mind Dog Bites Man, stop the presses for Man Joins Twitter.

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