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These days, it takes too much effort to actually get up and deliver a message the old fashioned way.

Late Show host Conan O'Brien has apologized for a sketch where actor William Shatner did an interpretive reading of tweets from an account impersonating future Playgirl model Levi Johnston .

Could a 73-year-old Twitter sensation become a CBS-TV star? In this photo, taken at the World Baseball classic, Justin Halpern, far right, sits with his friend Brad Lamers, in the middle, and his father, Samuel Halpern, third from right.

Chipmunk has cancelled all upcoming promotional appearances after "working too hard". The 18-year-old, who topped the singles chart last month with 'Oopsy Daisy' , posted a message on Twitter claiming that he wanted to kill himself.

The use of Facebook, Twitter and Google Docs in the workplace has increased dramatically in the past six months and their crossover from personal to business applications is accelerating, according to a new study released Monday.

Twitter has been rolling out new features for its web interface, taking the approach of small groups to get feedback and then full roll out.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says she's back on Twitter.

The Westboro Baptist Church is telling the Obama daughters that God is their "enemy." The Kansas-based far-right church known for its outrageous choices of protest venues picketed outside the private school attended by first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama on Monday morning, and in the process got embroiled in an angry war of words with an MSNBC ...

My initial reaction to the announcement that Twitter was going to implement the retweet microsyntax as a basic function of the platform was shock .

Twitter is about to make life a whole lot easier to navigate, with the introduction of what it is calling Geolocation, which will help finding meaningful information when searching a whole lot easier as the number of tweets inexorable rises.

Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I'm glad Mike Arrington hired him.

Just in time for today's release of his big Disney holiday flick, remake A Christmas Carol , comedian Jim Carrey has relaunched his personal website , and let's just say, it's not uninteresting.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it's something of a foreign concept to wine aficionados -- who have been known to generate volumes on a single grape.

Dear Annie: I enjoyed your Sept. 30 column , and readers' comments, about how to decide whom to "friend" on Facebook.

We knew it was going to happen eventually, but many digital marketers were taken somewhat by surprise when it happened all at once.

Twitter launched Twitter List last week. What is Twitter List? And why is this significant? Twitter List is a tool enabling Tweeters to create their own lists on Twitter.

Fort Hood, Texas, was uppermost in the minds of National Guard members today, especially with an Alabama citizen-soldier reportedly among the wounded after a deadly shooting rampage there.

Giving it to you straight. Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Flog a blog? Photo: Gaping Void Blogs and networking sites have taken a strange hue of late.

John Chow and daughter Sally, age 3, Twitter in West Vancouver on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.