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The satirical Twitter account purporting to be the "official" feed of Cat Fancy magazine has been taken offline after a Yahoo News report made the editor of the real magazine aware of its existence.

A young Saudi blogger and columnist has been deported to his homeland to face trial soon after fleeing from death threats triggered by comments on the social network Twitter seen as blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammad.

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A flash-mob type group announced just this morning on Twitter and FB that they would gather for a good old fashioned pillow fight outside City Hall at high noon.

Investigators worked Sunday to piece together what killed Whitney Houston as the music industry's biggest names gathered for a Grammy Awards show that felt as much like a memorial as a celebration.

Twenty-seven minutes before mainstream media broke the news of Whitney Houston's death on Saturday night, the story was on Twitter , reported by a man who tweeted the news out to his 14 followers.

Dorsey's tweet is a pertinent reminder that sometimes the most important choices are the choices where we decide not to do something.

The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according to requests posted online by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Garrett Bailey, 16-year-old from Bowie, about 32km northeast of Washington, DC, is accused of tweeting threats against 7th Circuit Court Judge Herman C Dawson, WTTG-TV reported today.

Read Monday's Vancouver Sun for a look at what's hot this week in music, TV and movies, including the film This Means War.

Mirvish Productions' presentation of War Horse has its official opening night on February 28th, 2012, but they are offering some very special tickets to eager young social media fans.

Singer Whitney Houston 's death Saturday at age 48 had few details immediately available, but celebrities on Twitter were quick to respond.

We're intrigued by the tweets of someone that labels themselves as being "unnecessarily coy" and knows that they will someday live in Paris once their days of working with the "Twitter dudes" are through.

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According to the Daily Mirror and Mail among others, Manchester City's Micah Richards has been moved to delete his @officialMR2A Twitter account and asked police to investigate after receiving torrents of racist abuse from a 'small but depressing minority of people' over the past few months.

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry seeks stronger conscience exemptions for coverage, while Sen.

The Internet was abuzz with rumors Friday that North Korea's newly installed leader, Kim Jong Un, was assassinated during a trip to Beijing, but U.S. officials are debunking the reports as not true.

The CIA's Web site was down this afternoon in what looked like a distributed denial-of-service attack publicized by members of the online activist group Anonymous.

Because the top trending topic on Twitter today is #IfWeAreInARelationship and the Twitterverse is on fire with 140 characters worth of love advice.

"I love 1,033,861 of you LOVERS, but 1 is not a lover, just a deluded weirdo making threat #andthatdoesnotmakeyouspecial So..police alerted," she tweeted Tuesday.