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Twitter hushing tweets country-by-country

Twitter tells the little blue bird to hush – but only in certain countries. In a sharp policy turnaround, Twitter has announced that it will now exercise the ability to withhold tweets depending on the rules and laws of specific countries. Previously, the social network had held firm to a stance of refusing to censor tweets that may contravene a country’s laws. However, until recently, the only way in which Twitter could block a tweet was to delete it across the service globally. In an official blog post yesterday, Twitter stated: “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content. “Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to remove content globally

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Social Media – Part of Your Web Strategy?

It depends on what you are trying to achieve with your site, but for many sites, the answer is increasingly ‘YES’. Social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter for the purposes of this article) have become increasingly pervasive. Recently I read that one minute of every eight spent on the Internet, is spent on Facebook. If the purpose of a web site is to communicate, then identifying where other people are – is a good start.

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Facebook flushes away competing concerns

Adults living in Britain would rather live without a toilet than Facebook, a study recently found. Carried out in conjunction with its exhibition ‘Water Wars: Fight the Food Crisis’, the London Science Museum asked participants to rank the things they couldn’t live without. Exhibition manager Sarah Richardson described the results from the survey as “crazy”. “To say you can’t live without material things over drinking water is crazy. It seems having fresh drinking water is something that many of us take for granted,” she told The Daily Mail . The survey intended to demonstrate how important clean drinking water is, but when the results came in, there were some curious findings.

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Business leaders call for infrastructure investment

Business leaders have called on the government to invest more in re-developing Britian’s infrastructure. According to The Construction Index, a report published by the CBI and KPMG has urged officials to improve motorway and road links in order to better facilitate trade and to create new jobs for many skilled tradesmen , labourers and engineers. The report has shown that 58 per cent of businesses partnered by KMPG believe the UK’s infrastructure is worse than most other European countries. Last year, Britain was ranked 33rd on quality of infrastructure by the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report – ahead of Slovenia, Tunisia and Cyprus. Competitor nations France and Germany, however, ranked 10th on quality of infrastructure, prompting business experts to speculate that British industries may be at a disadvantage and losing profit to well-connected Continental competitors. As a result, both CBI and KPMG have encouraged the government to invest in Britian’s road and rail networks.

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European Antitrust Investigators Looking at Google Advertising Practices

European Union antitrust investigators are querying Google advertisers to find out if the search engine was using undue influence to keep advertisers or force them to spend more money for ads on their site. The New York Times reports that an investigation was opened by the European Commission last November after the organization received complaints from Internet companies in France, England and Germany.

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Google Search Available in Haitian Kreyol

Google Search is now available in Haitian Kreyol, making it possible for more than 10 million people in Haiti and in the Haitian diaspora (including the Bahamas, Canada, Dominican Republic, France, French Guiana and the United States) to search the Web in their native language.

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Social Media Users Turn to Twitter for News, MySpace for Entertainment

Online advertising network Chitka recently released the results of research it conducted into the personal interests of users of different social networking sites. Mashable analyzed the results and found that — not surprisingly — different sites attracted users with different interests. In many cases, the nature of the social media site seemed to be directly related to the type of person who uses it.

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