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1 P M J O U R N A L O F D I G I T A L R ESEARCH & P UBLISHING<br />
Michael got treated according to the information Twitter released. In an hour <strong>of</strong> the news<br />
unfolded, Twitter appeared 66000 Michael Jackson related comments –5,000 per minute<br />
at peak– put such a demand on the site that the net slowed considerably. “Twitter brought<br />
into sharp focus the scale <strong>of</strong> the world’s shock and sadness”, said Pete Cashnore.<br />
Britney Spears likes telling her fans on Twitter what bread she ate today, which shop she<br />
went.<br />
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within just 28 days form its login. When she asked how to catch cooties for her dogs, she<br />
got more than 10 thousand feedbacks in very soon.<br />
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with cancer is feeling annoying. He has been “dead” several times on Twitter, thus he has<br />
to appear personally and clear up, tell people: I am alive.<br />
According to the latest numbers from ComScore, Twitter.com attracted 79.4 million<br />
unique visitors worldwide in March, 2010, at 316 percent increase from a year ago. But<br />
back to 3 years ago, the founder <strong>of</strong> American Blogger.com Evan Williams built Twitter as<br />
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in the name—we wanted to capture that feeling: the physical sensation that you’re buzzing<br />
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sharing desire. <strong>The</strong> core is using curt and optional, no more than 140 characters displayed<br />
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what they are thinking about or transfer the latest news as they wish. If other users are<br />
“following” you, all <strong>of</strong> your chatter and nagging (known as tweets) will be seen instantly.<br />
As a site with only two year history, Twitter has already become a myth like a hot beam.<br />
Its performance also never made people disappointed during the repeated contingency.<br />
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