cultiv8 writes “A US judge Friday ordered Twitter to hand over the data of three users in contact with the activist site WikiLeaks. ‘US Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan rejected arguments raised by the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a host of private attorneys representing the Twitter account holders, who had asserted that their privacy was protected by federal law, the First Amendment, and the Fourth Amendment. Buchanan rejected each (more…)

Want to know which Super Bowl ads are already stirring up the Twittering masses? Heres an infographic thatll give you the scoop on the latest pre-buzz on Twitter.Super Bowl XLV is still a day away, but theres already intense interest in the commercials that will be interrupted from time to time by a football game. Many of those ads have already leaked out on YouTube, and some have pulled out in front of the pack, certain to be standouts in tomorrows (more…)

An anonymous reader writes “Tweeters have joined forces to support Paul Chambers, the man convicted and fined for a Twitter message threatening to blow up an airport. A so-called ‘I’m Spartacus’ campaign encouraging users to ‘re-tweet’ his words has also become a huge hit. The hashtag #IAmSpartacus is currently the number one trending topic on Twitter in the UK, with #twitterjoketrial in second place. Chambers is believed to be the first person convicted (more…)

destinyland writes “1.2 billion Twitter ‘tweets’ were analyzed over two months by analytics company Sysomos, who concluded that a whopping 71% of them got no reaction whatsoever — no online responses, and no Twitter ‘retweets.’ ‘Only a small number of users actually have the ability to engage on Twitter in a significant way,’ the researchers conclude, noting that just 6% of Twitter’s status updates ever get retweeted (while 23% get a reply). (more…)

Here is the List of Twitter games that will push you into the adrenalin pumping breast thumping combative groove. Okay, your adrenalin won’t shoot up by that much, but Twitter games are a hell of a way to have some fun and waste time if you spend a lot of it on Twitter.

More…

It started in the bread aisle of Tesco and ended on an island off New Zealand. How Paul Smith got abandoned in America, lost in Paris, covered in cockroaches and saved by kindness.

More…

This morning Matt Mullenweg announced on his blog that WordPress.com has enabled posting and reading blogs via the Twitter API. Now any Twitter app that supports a custom API URL (Tweetie is one such) can be used to either post updates to a WordPress.com blog, or to read updates from blogs to which one has subscribed. Dave Winer calls the move by Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company, “deeply insidious,” and notes that 10 years ago he did a similar (more…)

Facebook revealed just how many people log on each day and the stats are pretty mind-blowing. The company also noted that one of its apps, ‘Farmville’, is more popular than its major rival in the social-networking world – Twitter.

More…

The next Xbox Live update will deliver Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm, but, Ron Popeil style, wait, there’s more! According to an email from Microsoft, anyway. Get ready for news headlines and dedicated music stores in the Xbox Live dashboard.

More…

Microsoft announced the addition of Last.fm, Facebook and Twitter at E3 2009, much to the dismay of ornery antisocialites, promising a 2009 release for those services. With a beta reported to hit this month, it seems things are on schedule.

More…