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Warner expected to plead guilty for Twitter rant during CA hearing
Australian Test batsman David Warner is expected to plead guilty during Cricket Australia hearing over his recent Twitter rant with two prominent journalists. Senior Code of Behaviour Commissioner, Justice Gordon Lewis, will hear the case via teleconference. According to news.com.au, Warner faces sanction ranging from a fine, suspension, reprimand or counseling after being reported under CA's ...
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Seth MacFarlane wont host 2014 Oscar
Seth MacFarlane has revealed on Twitter that he is too busy to host the Oscars in 2014. The 39-year-old comedian wrote on the micro blogging site that he "tried to make it work schedule-wise, but I need sleep," ABC News reported. MacFarlane tweeted on Monday that the Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who produced this year's Oscar show, are among the best in the business. ...
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Sarah Palin disproves climate change as it snowed in Alaska in May
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took to Facebook over the weekend to express her skepticism of global warming. Palin argued that global warming was not happening, pointing that it was snowing in Alaska in May. According to the Huffington Post, she wrote in a post on her Facebook page 'global warming my gluteus maximus'. In her Facebook argument, Palin confuses weather with climate, a ...
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Social network addiction taking over lives Australian study
The 2013 Yellow Social Media Report has analyzed that a growing number of Australians are using social network at an addictive rate wherever they can, even in toilet cubicles! According to the study, three out of every five internet users are accessing these sites more than five times a day, making it a total of seven hours a day. In a report by News.com, the study found that the time spent by ...
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Survey Says Teens Migrating to Twitter
Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too much ...
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Cool World [DVD]
Ralph Bakshis live-action-and-animation-mixed spectacle Cool World was in the unfortunate position of following just a few years after Robert Zemeckis Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988). Therefore, it was immediately written off as a sorry imitator, as if Bakshi (or anyone else, for that matter) had never mixed live action and animation before. In fact, his raucous and racy socially pr ... ...
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Facebook too old say Twitter teens
22 May 2013 Twitter is booming as a social media destination for American teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama ...
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Inslee signs Facebook job password protection bill
SEATTLE (AP) - Washington became the fifth state this year to sign into law protections of social media passwords at the workplace and job interviews. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bill Tuesday, wrapping up a session of negotiations between privacy advocates and business lobbyists who were worried that the new law would hamper security for proprietary or confidential information. The measure, ...
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Confucius is the first person who used twitter
According to the post, there are six evidences showing Confucius is the first to micoblog. First, every paragraph of The Analects has fewer than 140 characters, which is the earliest collection of Weibo; second, it always use simple words to give a profound message; third, most of the words are Confucius' own opinion and philosophical communication; fourth, Confucius has more than 3000 ...
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Xbox One Got Quite The Reaction On Twitter
The Xbox One – Microsoft’s next generation games console – was finally revealed today. The machine looks capable enough, and will surely have some killer games. That doesn’t matter on Twitter, though, where gut reactions and cheap shots are all that matters. Microsoft encouraged fans to continue the discussion on Twitter ...
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IAB unveils guidelines for social media marketing
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has launched new Paid Social Advertising Best Practice Guidelines designed to help guide agencies and marketers using social as a marketing vehicle. The guidelines aim to provide information, structure and clarity on social media as a marketing tool and provide a framework to set clear campaign objectives and achieve measurable outcomes based around ...
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