Furniture retailer Habitat has come under fire after it spammed Twitter users through the use of hash tags.
The retailer had been using hash tags, which help users track conversations on the microblogging site, to promote marketing messages that had no relevance to the topics used.
The company’s Twitter feed, HabitatUK, was putting out marketing messages such ... Read more
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A search for #iranelection right now will give you a pretty long list of results, in fact in the time I wrote this about 2000 new tweets have appeared. Twitter seems to be the only way that Iranians can communicate at the moment as the government clamps down on most forms of communication.
Twitter is so ... Read more
The University of Washington’s World Information Access report (WIA) has shown that since 2003, at least 64 people have been arrested for blogging about political issues - for exposing corruption in goverment, the abuse of human rights or for just generally criticising governments. In 2008, it is likely that more bloggers than ever will face arrest as a result of the growing political ... Read more