Kathryn Blaze Carlson, National Post · Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011

When President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on Jan. 14, Tunisians declared victory and social-networking site Twitter went berserk with traffic. Soon after, Tunisia–where Internet penetration is roughly 35%, and where cellphone use is reportedly upward of 95%–joined Iran and Moldova on the list of countries that have undergone a “Twitter Revolution.” But some say Tunisia’s Twitter Revolution was different in one very important way: activists used Twitter to help protesters navigate the on-the-ground tumult, warning of sniper locations, for example. One man even tweeted that Twitter saved his life. Then Friday, Ali Larayedh, leader of Tunisia’s once-outlawed opposition Islamist party, told The New York Times, “None of us expected the Ben Ali government to go down as fast as [a text] message.” To understand the unique role of Twitter and other social networks in the Tunisian revolt, the National Post’s Kathryn Blaze Carlson spoke separately with Zeynep Tufekci, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, Nasser Weddady, a Mauritania-born expert in Internet activism and a director at the American Islamic Congress in Boston, and Ethan Zuckerman and Jillian York, both of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

See http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/Twitter+topples+Tunisia/4148834/story.html

Found by Brian G on Tweet A File

It looks like it happened again today, yet another DDoS attack. (Not sure what the heck a DDoS is? Check out Wikipedia for an explanation) I’m sure it’s posted all over the interwebs and more than likely local news sources are picking it up, too. Looks like there’s a disgruntled dood in Europe somewhere that’s not happy with some political dood’s tweets. Just one person is taking down Twitter? Yey! I don’t condone any illegal activity, but it’s fun to make light of the situation.

I rejoiced when I heard that the Twitter monster was taken down by a DoS. But I was not quick enough to report on the happens, new job and all. Makes me wonder what the masses did while their interwebs were nothing more than the googles and flashygames…

Thanks go to Brian G for finding the comic at Twittch.

More people are “tweeting” about pooping, or various incarnations of the act, on Twitter. Build your own graph and find out how sick people actually are.

Check out Twttrpoop for more.

Thanks goes to Married To The Sea for the cartoon.

Photo: Wooliscroft/WireImage

Has the apocalypse come? Has the world ended? Rock God, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has pulled all his Twittering!!

Rock Daily was saddened to learn this weekend that Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor deleted his Twitter account, officially ending his tenure on the 140-character social network. What was once among our favorite Twitters to follow is now a “That Page Doesn’t Exist.” Reznor had in the past flirted with permanently absconding from Twitter after receiving a plethora of nasty messages concerning himself and his fiancée, West Indian Girl frontwoman Mariqueen Maandig, stating that “idiots rule” on social networks. However, Reznor eventually returned to Twitter, albeit briefly, to announce plans for the Nine Inch Nails’ final U.S. tour and to recommend artists like Grizzly Bear and Mew.

See the rest of the article on Rolling Stone

Citizens of the blogosphere: We’ve been had. The revelations from the dubiously named Twittergate have been about as exciting as watching wet paint dry, and has served only to hype the TechCrunch and Twitter brands. When Michael Arrington first announced there were “hundreds of confidential Twitter documents” sitting in TechCrunch’s inbox, the TC co-founder wrote, “a few of the documents have so much news value that we think it’s appropriate to publish them.”

Yesterday, Arrington made good on his promise to deliver the news with a post by Eric Schonfeld entitled “Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet.”

See the rest at PC World