‘Best Job in the World’ winner misspells island’s name in Twitter post

October 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The first astronaut to tweet from space has passed an important social media milestone, as in he now shares his daily experiences with more than a million followers on the micro-blogging service. The astronaut in question is NASA's Mike Massimino, known as @Astro_Mike on Twitter.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Former US national security adviser Mark Pfeifle has said that microblogging site Twitter should win the Nobel Peace Prize for its role during the civil unrest in Iran. "When traditional journalists were forced to leave the country, Twitter became a window for the world to view hope, heroism, and horror," The Telegraph quoted Pfeifle, as saying.

January 21st, 2009 Twitter and Orkut have attracted millions of people in the world into social networking. To each, its own.

June 16th, 2009 Officials: Twitter stayed online for Iran chaos WASHINGTON — The State Department this week asked Twitter to postpone a scheduled maintenance shutdown of its service to keep information flowing from inside Iran amid the growing crisis over its disputed election, three U.S. officials said Tuesday.

June 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two journalists have built an online service that would let twitter users around the world to spot the International Space Station (ISS) without a telescope. The online service, built by Dutch science reporter Govert Schilling and journalist Jaap Meijers, would let people know when they have to look up to see the ISS pass.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - Comedian Ashton Kutcher has beaten American news giant CNN to become the first user to have a million people following his updates, or 'tweets' on social-networking website Twitter. The 31-year-old challenged CNN earlier this week to see who could be the first to attract a million followers and promised to donate 10,000 mosquito nets to charity for World Malaria Day if he won and 1,000 if he lost, while the broadcaster agreed to do the same, reports the Daily Mail online.

July 14th, 2009 Twitter is not just restricted to micro-blogging, there's a world of Twitter apps that'll let you do almost everything you expect from a social networking site. What about sending iPhone videos to Twitter? I prefer videos, as they can easily convey a lot more than what you do with just 140 words on Twitter.

September 21st, 2009 Travel brands and deals on Twitter: Who to followNEW YORK — What are you looking for when you follow a travel brand on Twitter? News? Deals? Exclusive offers? And which Twitter travel feeds are the most popular? DealBase.com researched airlines, hotels and booking sites on Twitter and found that of the brands surveyed, JetBlue's Twitter feed had the most followers mid-September with 1.2 million. Of the Travel booking Web sites DealBase looked at, Travelocity had the most followers with nearly 25,000 and among hotels, Marriott had the most followers with more than 15,000.

February 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Google's popular email service Gmail, which has over a 110 million users worldwide, went offline at around 2 p.m. Tuesday, affecting users throughout the world, especially in Europe and India.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - Ministers at the Whitehall, the administrative centre of the UK government, have been provided with a document spanning 20 pages on how to use popular microblogging website Twitter. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills created hitehall's first ever Twitter strategy as a tutorial to overnment departments to post tweets more regularly, reports The Independent.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Mike Massimino, a member of the NASA crew sent to Hubble, has become the first man to have sent a Twitter message from out of space. Accoridng to a report in the Telegraph, his first tweet proclaimed: "From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, and enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!" His second, sent via the computers on board the space shuttle Atlantis, said: "From orbit: Getting more accustomed to living in space today and getting ready for our big rendezvous with hubble." Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, has been used by thousands of people in unusual and controversial locations.

July 16th, 2007 Stalking appears to be the most appropriate way to describe my recent experiences. First of all Twitter (I love the service) has changed the message from so and so is your friend to the eerie message so and so is following you.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Social networking tool Twitter is all set to be listed in the 30th anniversary edition of the Collins English Dictionary. The name of the micro-blogging website, which boasts of 1.8 million users, will appear as a noun as well as a verb in the edition to be published later this year.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The ministry of external affairs is all a-Twitter. Not because Indian diplomats have become net savvy, but one of the new ministers of state is a frequent user of this social networking web tool.

April 3rd, 2009 Washingtonpost today has just brought in a heck of a rumor that Google may be in the last stage of acquiring Twitter. No one knows the price or exact transactional details yet, nor there is any official source to that, but its said that the deal may be well over $250 Million.