Top 10 Microblogging Sites Other than Twitter

May 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Social networking site Twitter suffers security breaches, an expert has warned. According to Graham Cluley of antivirus firm Sophos, the microblogging site is prone to viruses created in the Javascript web-programming language.

June 15th, 2009 Google executives are all praises for Twitter's success. Well, what could be the reason? It seems that the Googleplex men are looking to cash on the micoblogging giant.

August 25th, 2009 The more people know about Twitter, the more entrepreneurs and CIOs there are looking for a platform like ours on which to build. This is what Identi.ca founder and CEO Evan Prodromou had uttered, marking the rise of another Twitter competitor.

March 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - More than 1.7 million Facebook users have joined a protest against another redesign of the popular social networking site, in one of the biggest consumer revolts seen in the online world. As of midday Monday, the Facebook group called Petition Against the New Facebook had 1,727,394 disgruntled members, while a Facebook-sponsored poll on the redesign had received more than 1.2 million votes, with just 75,000 approving the new look.

August 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is planning to ban Facebook, Twitter, and other social media at US Department of Defense sites. The prospective ban isn't due to fears that troops might divulge secure information over the sites, or to worries about bad PR.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - 'Twittering', 'hmm', and 'heh' are among the 267 words that have been added to this year's Collins English Dictionary, all thanks to teenagers who use such words on social networking websites. With teenagers increasingly using these grunts and sighs in words on Twitter and other such websites, the need to find spellings for sounds that were traditionally used only in speech has also spawned "meh" (an expression of dissatisfaction) and "mwah" (the sound of a noisy kiss).

June 4th, 2009 Social networking is getting hotter and hotter in US. Ultimately its bulging into a war of social sites, where each site is looking to hook their visitor for maximum hours.

June 1st, 2009 APNEWSBREAK: US military tweetsKABUL — The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the Internet rather than in newspapers, officials said Monday.

June 21st, 2007 I just got hooked into twitter, a service which exists for the sole purpose of letting others know what you are doing at this moment. However it is more than that.

June 1st, 2009 US military Tweets to counter TalibanKABUL — The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the Internet rather than in newspapers, officials said Monday.

August 6th, 2009 Hackers attack Twitter, Facebook also slows downNEW YORK — A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook also said it was looking into possible site problems. Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was "defending against a denial-of-service attack," in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.

January 20th, 2009 We all knew this is gonna happen some day, but not so soon! Twitter has actually reached and overwhelmed Facebook in case of market shares. Hitwise reported that as of Tuesday, Twitter, the popular microblogging service, had for the first time surpassed the market share of visits of the hit content aggregation site, Digg.

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.

February 19th, 2009 Most of the Twitter addicts know its spinning money now.  It's high time for you regular Twitterers to get into serious business while spending time on social networking. The most feasible way to make money from twitter would be to get used to its tools.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - With more and more people drawing towards social networking sites, it has become very hard to maintain privacy, according to a new study. The researchers analysed links between users of social sites, and identified many people in supposedly anonymous data sets.