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Some social networking sites ask for your e-mail address and password when you sign up.

If Twitter needed to pay for the media coverage the company and service gets across the board, it would have spent almost as ...

As the media world's most powerful figures gather in Sun Valley, Idaho to discuss the state of the industry the topics are likely to range far and wide. But aside from subjects like the economy and the influence of the internet, one question is likely to dominate conversations among the event's moguls and millionaires: will anyone broker a deal to buy Twitter?

It’s tough to argue against the perception that Facebook’s been on a Twitter emulation spree. In the last month alone they announced public content sharing, profile fans, real-time search, and brand new privacy changes. All of this seems to be an attempt to directly confront the Twitter threat.

After a string of real celebrity deaths last week, the Internet and online social networks killed a few more stars.

An avid Twitter user, Alana Taylor wrote a song about the social networking site and uploaded it to YouTube last April. Soon, her Twitter feed became flooded with messages linking to it.

This was one special tweet for Lance Armstrong.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing the social-networking site Twitter, claiming an unauthorized page that used his name to make light of drunken driving and two Cardinals pitchers who died damaged his reputation and caused emotional distress.

The suit filed last month in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco seeks unspecified damages.
Messages left Thursday with La Russa's attorney and San Francisco-based Twitter were not returned.

After the social-networking service Twitter announced Monday it was in talks to develop an unscripted series based on the site, two of the service's most prolific users have expressed fear that such a jump would mean an unfair intrusion on their lives.

Facebook sells a 1.96% stake to a Russian internet firm, a move that values the social networking website at $10bn.