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Paris Hilton on Twitter: "Love My New Chanel Purse I Got Today "

A photograph posted by Paris Hilton more than a month prior to her drug arrest in Las Vegas could blow up her claim that the purse she was carrying — which contained cocaine — did not belong to her, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

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Respect is due to Jonathan Schwartz, chief executive of Sun Microsystems, who announced his resignation on Twitter with a haiku. "Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku," he tweeted earlier this morning, going on to apply the five/seven/five-syllable rule of the Japanese poem to his situation:

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Forty percent of the messages on Twitter are "pointless babble"

examples…

"I am eating a sandwich now in Broadbeach,"

“I Had a big night,”

“I just arrived at the Big Day Out”

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A HORRIFIED Twitter user tweeted the moment a tourist was killed in the jaws of a "gigantic shark" in a South African holiday spot.

Gregg Coppen watched as Lloyd Skinner was savaged in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday (local time) tweeting: "Holy _____ We just saw a gigantic shark eat what looked like a person in front of our house…"

He added: "That shark was huge. Like dinosaur huge."

"We were swimming only about 15m away from the guy. We were at about chest depth and he was a little deeper….I never want to experience this again. I’m going to block it out of my mind.”

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» Twitters Account – skabenga

7.0 quake hits Haiti; could be ‘catastrophe,’ official says

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has hit Haiti. A tsunami warning has been issued for a number of nearby Carribean countries including Jamaica, the Bahamas and Cuba.

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When I first heard of the earthquake that hit Northern California, I was worried. After all, my 98-year-old grandma lives in Fortuna, which is just a stone’s throw from Ferndale, the closest town to the epicenter and my home for several years when I was a teenager. With my dad trying to raise my grandma on the phone (turns out she’s just fine), the first place I turned for news was Twitter. As is customary these days, several citizen reports provided news several minutes ahead of the traditional media.

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German politicians warned of a "damage to democracy" on Monday after exit polls for three state elections were leaked on Twitter, the second time in recent months results have appeared ahead of time.

» German politicians livid at Twitter vote leak

You might think childbirth would be a topic too personal, too beautiful or way too graphic to write about on Twitter. Sara, the wife of Twitter’s CEO, posted ‘Tweeted’ online from a hospital while she was in labor.

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Hackers have targeted two of the hottest internet sites on the web, closing down Twitter for a couple of hours and disrupting access for Facebook users, both where attacked on the same day raising speculation that they had come under a pre-planned coordinated attack by hackers. The micro-blogging site Twitter, used by several million in the UK, was overwhelmed by a "denial of service" attack by "botnets" – in which hackers command scores of compromised computers to contact a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through, a technique in which hackers overwhelm a website’s servers with communications requests such as packets.

Malicious attack’ by hackers targets Facebook and Twitter – Times Online

Social networking service Twitter is the latest tool to be employed by Victoria Police in the fight against drunk and speeding drivers.

As part of a three-day road safety blitz starting today, Deputy Chief Commissioner Ken Lay will ‘tweet’ boozy breath-test readings and details of cars caught speeding to discourage other young drivers from engaging in the same dangerous behaviour.

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