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Tweetsport, the real-time tweet by tweet sport news site, announced the winners of the Naughty and Nice Twitlist for 2011 today (Monday 12th December 2011). Tweetsport which reviewed tweets from over 1000 top sporting favourites to find the ‘Sweet Tweets’ and the ‘Sporting Sprouts’ in the categories of football, rugby, …

Twitter are going from strength to strength. According to Dick Costolo, they have 100 million users now globally. Of those, more than half are active daily and 40 percent of them read the site without tweeting. Five billion tweets are made now every month and they have an audience of …

The Secret Service are investigating the hacking of Fox's political Twitter account over messages which said that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. The FoxNewsPolitics account was hacked yesterday and six messages were left which ‘reported' that Obama has been shot and killed in Iowa, by an unknown assassin. Fox …

Ryan Giggs, footballer with Manchester United has been at the center of an affair scandal in recent weeks. To protect his identity he logged a ‘super injunction' to stop the English press speaking out about him. It all went very pear shaped however when information leaked on Twitter about his …

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has posted on his personal blog that the time had come to leave Twitter and look at doing something new. Twitter announced earlier this week that co founder Jack Dorsey was back in charge of product development and that Williams who had replaced Dorsey as CEO …

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said that Twitter is now serving 1 billion tweets each week. Twitter have never released detailed information on their platform, but Dorsey wants this to change, highlighting the popularity of the platform. Dorsey obviously tweeted the information, giving them 1 billion and one tweets this week …

An Egyptian man has named his daughter after the popular social networking site – ‘FaceBook'. The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram is reporting that 20 year old Jamal Ibrahim has decided to call his daughter ‘Facebook' in honor of the service that has helped anti government protests overthrow Egyptian dictator Muhammad Hosni …

Dick Costolo Twitter Chief Executive said that the microblogging site is ‘already making money', but he did not clarify whether this was profit or revenue. Costolo made the comments during a webcast keynote address at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but a follow up Q&A was not streamed onto …

Love them or loate them, it is hard to escape social networking in the news today. Latest information reaching KitGuru details that Twitter now have over 175 million users, a growth of 30 million people since August, or 15 million users a month. Not many networks could claim a growth …

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said during a conference in San Francisco that the Twitter platform will soon have one billion users. Williams said “Twitter will get to a billion members”. It could however take quite some time before this becomes a reality, as there are only 165 million registered users …

Evan William's, Twitter co-founder and CEO is stepping down to let his second in command, Chief Operating Office Dick Costolo replace him at the top. William's is planning to focus on product strategy. Williams has managed the privately run San Francisco company for the last two years but wants to …

Twitter have been growing at an exponential rate in recent months and this has unfortunately had the side effect of causing some downtime for the social networking service. Its fair to say that when 300,000 new accounts are created every day that you would expect this however. To counter these …