Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, gets a 21st century makeover in a new version which will unfold through Twitter messages and on the YouTube video website.
Entitled Such Tweet Sorrow, the experiment is a collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Mudlark, which produces entertainment on mobile telephones.
Organisers have already outlined [...]
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Twitter has hit 50 million tweets per day mark - more than 20 times the traffic the microblogging service was experiencing a year ago.
The leap to 50 million tweets per day, or 600 tweets per second, which does not include spam, shows the huge growth the service has notched up in the space of three years.
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The wife of the CEO of Twitter is showing her devotion to her husband’s company by sending ‘tweets’ while giving birth.
Designer Sara Williams updated friends - and hundreds of thousands of strangers - live online after going into labour.
“Dear Twitter, My water broke,” she wrote at at 9pm California time (5am GMT).
“It wasn’t like Charlotte [...]
