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Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a "Buzz," ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:28:42 GMT

(AFP/File) - Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a "Buzz," adding Twitter and Facebook style social networking features.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)

An Apple computer is shown on Google's company campus in ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:49:34 GMT

(Reuters) - An Apple computer is shown on Google's company campus in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google "Buzz," injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH BUSINESS)

Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:40:10 GMT

(Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google "buzz," injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Google co-founder Sergey Brin uses a computer on the company's ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:35:26 GMT

(Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin uses a computer on the company's campus in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google "Buzz," injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH BUSINESS)

Google co-founder Sergey Brin listens to a question during a ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:33:15 GMT

(Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin listens to a question during a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google "Buzz," injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH BUSINESS)

Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:33:13 GMT

(Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google "Buzz," injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)

Google co-founder Sergey Brin (R) participates in a panel discussion ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:31:04 GMT

(Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin (R) participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google "Buzz," injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. Also appearing on the panel are Google's Vic Gundrota (L), vice president of engineering, Todd Jackson (2nd L), project manager for Gmail and "Buzz," and Bradley Horowitz (2nd R), vice president of product management. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH BUSINESS)

Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:28:49 GMT

Google co-founder Sergey Brin looks at a computer on the company's ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:27:47 GMT

(Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin looks at a computer on the company's campus in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google "Buzz", injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH BUSINESS)

Google plans to make it make it easier for users of Gmail to ...

(Gmail) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:08:09 GMT

(Gmail) - Google plans to make it make it easier for users of Gmail to view online status updates from friends in a swipe at Twitter and Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.(Gmail)

NASA image shows shuttle Atlantis Astronaut Mike Massimino, ...

(AFP/NASA/File) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:47:43 GMT

(AFP/NASA/File) - NASA image shows shuttle Atlantis Astronaut Mike Massimino, STS-125 mission specialist, photographed from an aft flight deck window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. With astronauts now sending a steady stream of "tweets" from space, NASA is inviting the public to ask them questions using the popular micro-blogging service.(AFP/NASA/File)

A bronze statue of Mary MacKillop. An Australian nun has taken ...

(AFP/Pool/File) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:04:11 GMT

(AFP/Pool/File) - A bronze statue of Mary MacKillop. An Australian nun has taken to Twitter on behalf of saint-in-waiting MacKillop, bringing the late sister's messages of hope and forgiveness to a new audience a century after she died.(AFP/Pool/File/Reginato Anthony)

Hollywood film studios have lost a landmark court bid to hold ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:08:54 GMT

(AFP/File) - Hollywood film studios have lost a landmark court bid to hold an Australian Internet provider responsible for illegal movie downloads by its customers, in a blow to their efforts against piracy. The trial was also Australia's first proceedings reported live on Twitter. A Federal Court judge approved the unusual measure, which resulted in hundreds of postings on the micro-blogging site.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)

Hollywood film studios lost a landmark court bid Thursday to ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:24:02 GMT

(AFP/File) - Hollywood film studios lost a landmark court bid Thursday to hold an Australian Internet provider responsible for illegal movie downloads by its customers, in a serious blow to their fight against piracy. The trial was also Australia's first proceedings reported live on Twitter. A Federal Court judge approved the unusual measure, which resulted in hundreds of postings on the micro-blogging site.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)

The frontpage of Twitter. Twitter on Tuesday blocked the accounts ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:34:50 GMT

(AFP/File) - The frontpage of Twitter. Twitter on Tuesday blocked the accounts of users who evidently fell prey to a "phishing" scam that stole their log-in information.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)

Sen. Dick Durbin, seen here in 2009, asked 30 leading companies, ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:01:29 GMT

(AFP/File) - Sen. Dick Durbin, seen here in 2009, asked 30 leading companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Nokia and Twitter, for information about their human rights practices in China after Google's threat to leave the country over cyberattacks and Web censorship.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)

US President Barack Obama speaks on the 2011 budget in the Grand ...

(AFP) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:30:58 GMT

(AFP) - US President Barack Obama speaks on the 2011 budget in the Grand Foyer at the White House in Washington, DC. Obama answered questions from YouTube users Monday in the latest embrace of cyberspace by a White House that has also launched Facebook and MySpace pages and Twitter and Flickr feeds.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

The sun rises over the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. More ...

(AFP) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:24:30 GMT

(AFP) - The sun rises over the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. More than 1,400 Twitter users around the world took part in a US-government sponsored contest to define democracy and the most popular "tweet" was from a Chinese user, the State Department said Monday.(AFP/Jewel Samad)

The frontpage of Twitter, a leading Internet microblogging site. ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:17:06 GMT

(AFP/File) - The frontpage of Twitter, a leading Internet microblogging site. There has been an "alarming" rise in spammers and hackers hunting for victims at online social networks, according to a report released Monday by computer security firm Sophos.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)

Cowbell2010, the premier iPhone App for fans of the Olympic ...

(AP) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:19:25 GMT

(AP) - Cowbell2010, the premier iPhone App for fans of the Olympic Games, provides the full Vancouver event schedule, real-time medal count by country, live Twitter feed of more than 200 Olympians and, of course, a clanging, virtual cowbell draped in the country flag of your choice to ring in support of the Winter Games athletes. (PRNewsFoto/Rage Digital Inc.)

A Chinese flag flies over the company logo outside the Google ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:04:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Chinese flag flies over the company logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing. Google has threatened to pull out of China over cyber attacks as well as over censorship in China which it opposed.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)

Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams attends a session at ...

(AFP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:04:28 GMT

(AFP) - Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams attends a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 27. Williams on Friday said he had been told that the microblogging service has been partially blocked by China but had no confirmation.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Osama bin Laden's foray into climate change has sparked ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:05:11 GMT

(AFP/File) - Osama bin Laden's foray into climate change has sparked a lively guessing game on Twitter as to what subject the Al-Qaeda chief, seen here in this undated file photo, may choose to address on his next tape.(AFP/File)

A Twitter site image shows a message posted by the Iranian Cyber ...

(AFP/Twitter.com) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:59:14 GMT

(AFP/Twitter.com) - A Twitter site image shows a message posted by the Iranian Cyber Army advising that the site has been hacked. The group briefly managed to redirect Twitter users to its own site on December 18, 2009.(AFP/Twitter.com)

An event guest plays with the new Apple iPad during an Apple ...

(AFP/Getty Images) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:51:18 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images) - An event guest plays with the new Apple iPad during an Apple Special Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. Twitter users responded snarkily Wednesday to the name of Apple's latest innovation the iPad, pushing the phrase "iTampon" to a number two "trending" topic on the microblogging site.(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

Evan Williams, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, ...

(AP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:51:34 GMT

(AP) - Evan Williams, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, listens during a plenary session on the first day of the 40th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. The overarching theme of the World Economic Forum, WEF, annual meeting which will take place from 27 to 31 January, is 'Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild'. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)

Evan Williams, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, ...

(AP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:50:51 GMT

Evan Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter attends a session ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:54:53 GMT

(Reuters) - Evan Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 27, 2010. REUTERS/Michael Buholzer (SWITZERLAND - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS HEADSHOT)

Evan Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter attends a session ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:48:31 GMT

Co-Founder and CEO, Twitter, USA, Evan Williams, right, speaks ...

(AP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:58:50 GMT

(AP) - Co-Founder and CEO, Twitter, USA, Evan Williams, right, speaks during a social networking session at the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday Jan. 27, 2010. Financial reforms, climate talks and Haiti's reconstruction are set to dominate the agenda of the world's elites heading up to the Swiss mountain resort of Davos this week for their annual meeting. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter, USA, Evan Williams listens during ...

(AP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:57:48 GMT

(AP) - Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter, USA, Evan Williams listens during a social networking session at the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday Jan. 27, 2010. Financial reforms, climate talks and Haiti's reconstruction are set to dominate the agenda of the world's elites heading up to the Swiss mountain resort of Davos this week for their annual meeting. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Alyssa Ravasio displays her page on the social networking site ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:17:15 GMT

(Reuters) - Alyssa Ravasio displays her page on the social networking site Facebook while attending school in Los Angeles January 26, 2010. College senior Ravasio gave up MySpace on the day she got a Facebook account and never looked back. She has already lost interest in Twitter. But how does Facebook know it can keep her loyalty? The brief history of the Internet is littered with the ghosts of Websites that people have abandoned in their relentless pursuit of something newer, faster, better and cooler. REUTERS/Phil McCarten (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY SCI TECH)

Alyssa Ravasio displays her page on the social networking site ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:17:13 GMT

(Reuters) - Alyssa Ravasio displays her page on the social networking site Facebook, while attending school in Los Angeles January 26, 2010. College senior Ravasio gave up MySpace on the day she got a Facebook account and never looked back. She has already lost interest in Twitter. But how does Facebook know it can keep her loyalty? The brief history of the Internet is littered with the ghosts of Websites that people have abandoned in their relentless pursuit of something newer, faster, better and cooler. REUTERS/Phil McCarten (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH SOCIETY)

Alyssa Ravasio displays her page on the social networking site ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:16:07 GMT

(Reuters) - Alyssa Ravasio displays her page on the social networking site Facebook, while attending school in Los Angeles January 26, 2010. College senior Alyssa Ravasio gave up MySpace on the day she got a Facebook account and never looked back. She has already lost interest in Twitter. But how does Facebook know it can keep her loyalty? The brief history of the Internet is littered with the ghosts of Websites that people have abandoned in their relentless pursuit of something newer, faster, better and cooler. REUTERS/Phil McCarten (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH SOCIETY)

Alyssa Ravasio displays her page on the social networking site ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:15:05 GMT

People walk past the Palais des Festivals, in Cannes, southeastern ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:57:06 GMT

(AFP/File) - People walk past the Palais des Festivals, in Cannes, southeastern France, on January 24, the opening day of the music world's largest annual trade fair, MIDEM. A new MP3 file format, called MusicDNA, offers a wide range of additional content to music lovers about favourite artists and bands -- including lyrics, videos, tour dates and social networks such as Twitter -- viewable alongside tracks.(AFP/File/Valery Hache)

Delegates are seen at the Twitter Conference in Los Angeles,California ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:28:31 GMT

(AFP/File) - Delegates are seen at the Twitter Conference in Los Angeles,California in 2009. Twitter on Monday announced plans to hold its first conference for developers interested in making applications to synch with the wildly popular microblogging service.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while delivering remarks ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:44:46 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while delivering remarks on internet freedom at the Newseum in Washington January 21, 2010. Chinas Communist Party mouthpiece on Sunday accused the U.S. of mounting a cyber army and a "hacker brigade", and of exploiting social media like Twitter or Youtube to foment unrest in Iran. REUTERS/Molly Riley

In this screen shot taken from Twitter, the Twitter page of ...

(AP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:14:52 GMT

(AP) - In this screen shot taken from Twitter, the Twitter page of astronaut Timothy (TJ) Creamer is shown. In a high tech first — really, really high — astronauts in space finally have Internet access. On Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, Creamer posted the first live Twitter post truly from space.(AP Photo/Twitter) NO SALES

The logo of social networking website 'Facebook' is ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:21:58 GMT

(AFP/File) - The logo of social networking website 'Facebook' is displayed on a computer screen. Five journalists plan to lock themselves away in a French farmhouse with access only to Facebook and Twitter to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (pictured last year) started ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:14:06 GMT

(AFP/File) - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (pictured last year) started tweeting on Tuesday. Gates bid the Twitter community a "Hello World" around midday, and then followed that message with three more lauding efforts to raise aid funds for earthquake-devastated Haiti.(AFP/File/Raveendran)

US President Barack Obama tours the Disaster Operations Center ...

(AFP) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:34:13 GMT

(AFP) - US President Barack Obama tours the Disaster Operations Center of the American Red Cross in Washington, DC. Obama 'tweeted' his very first message on Monday, joining the millions who have used the Twitter micro-blogging site as a vital information vehicle for the Haiti disaster.(AFP/Jim Watson)

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) reacts after sending his first-ever ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:55:50 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama (R) reacts after sending his first-ever Twitter post during a visit with Red Cross employees to view relief operations for earthquake victims in Haiti, from the Red Cross Disaster Operations Center in Washington January 18, 2010. The employees had written a brief post about Obama's visit, and he hit the button to send it. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS DISASTER SOCIETY)

A PRESIDENTIAL FIRST – President Barack Obama reacts to sending ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:52:35 GMT

(Reuters) - A PRESIDENTIAL FIRST – President Barack Obama reacts to sending his first-ever tweet Jan. 18, 2010. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

President Barack Obama, center, reacts after using an employee's ...

(AP) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:00:52 GMT

(AP) - President Barack Obama, center, reacts after using an employee's desktop computer to send a Twitter post during his visit to the Red Cross Disaster Operation Center in Washington Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

TWEET – President Barack Obama sends a Twitter message from ...

(AP) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:55:03 GMT

(AP) - TWEET – President Barack Obama sends a Twitter message from an employee's computer during his visit to the Red Cross Disaster Operation Center in Washington on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) hits "send" on his ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:40:16 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama (R) hits "send" on his first-ever Twitter post during a visit with Red Cross employees to view relief operations for earthquake victims in Haiti, from the Red Cross Disaster Operations Center in Washington January 18, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY DISASTER)

The frontpage of Twitter, a leading Internet microblogging site. ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:00:24 GMT

(AFP/File) - The frontpage of Twitter, a leading Internet microblogging site. A man has been arrested by anti-terrorism police and suspended from his job after he sent a Twitter message joking that he was going to blow up an airport, a report has said.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)

The Malaysian government has warned against excessive use of ...

(AFP/File) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:26:23 GMT

(AFP/File) - The Malaysian government has warned against excessive use of micro-blogging sites like Facebook and Twitter, arguing that they could erode the country's culture, a report has said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

Lance Armstrong (C) of Team RadioShack rides at the start of ...

(AFP) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:03:16 GMT

(AFP) - Lance Armstrong (C) of Team RadioShack rides at the start of the 2010 Tour Down Under in Adelaide. Armstrong has attracted intense media interest and drew some 5,000 amateur cyclists to an impromptu ride announced on Twitter.(AFP/Mark Gunter)