Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are used by 28.3 million people in the UK, or 77% of the online population, according to a new survey.
The survey, by research company InSites Consulting, reports that 72% of internet users worldwide use at least one social networking site.
Eastern Europe and Asia are the regions with [...]

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While most of the world happily enjoys the Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following months.
And, as shown by Google’s recent squabble with the Chinese government, it can be very hard to operate in the world’s most populous country. [...]

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Spam and phishing have been ongoing problems at Twitter for some time, and tonight the company announced that it is stepping up its efforts to stop them with some new features, described as being able to “detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links.”
In a blog post, Twitter writes that the protection works by [...]

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