Tomorrow marks the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square in Beijing and the Chinese government has thought well to block access to the Twitter microblogging service throughout the country. For two days will be impossible to access the e-mail to Hotmail, the new Microsoft search engine and the server Bing Flickr Photo owned by Yahoo. According to a technologically most read blogger in China, Kaiser Kuo, it's no surprise impossible to use this kind of sites and that a governmental reaction against this kind of Twitter, in some ways violent and certainly decided, there was be expected for some time. Protests by students and workers, as in the night between 3 and 4 June 1989, are obviously not made to wait. There's even who he described as "China as Iran", referring...
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I received my first invitation to Twitter last year from my friend who is a professional comedian. Consequently, I have not taken seriously. He explained to me that is like Facebook, but it is only the state, what irritates me more. Who is interested to hear details like: "Last night I left and I drank a lot" nell'ennesimo social network? And for more from people who do not even know? Not for me, my son said. But within months it has become a phenomenon that is increasingly hard to escape. Particularly after the earthquake in China, and the shooting in Mumbai, no journalist can do without. In some cases become a real substitute for dispatch press, thanks to the ease with which you can gather information in real time. We have discovered through a chirping (ie a Tweet) that...
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