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(AP) — South Korea has blocked North Korea’s new Twitter account from being accessed in the South, saying the tweets contain “illegal information” under the country’s security laws, officials said Thursday. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

The frontpage of Twitter. North Korea’s propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heals of its foray into video with clips posted on YouTube. North Korea’s propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heals of its foray [...]

This picture taken in 2009, in Paris, shows the frontpage of Twitter. The micro-blogging service began rolling out a new feature Friday called “Suggestions for You” which directs users to other Twitter accounts they may find interesting. Twitter wants to help you build your network. (c) 2010 AFP

Frenchman Francois Cousteix, 23, leaves the court after attending his trial in Clermont-Ferrand, central France. The young Frenchman accused of hacking into US President Barack Obama’s Twitter account insisted at his trial on Thursday that he had done so for the common good. A young Frenchman accused of hacking into US President Barack Obama’s Twitter [...]

(AP) — Twitter has agreed to settle charges by federal regulators that it put the privacy of its users at risk by failing to protect them from data security lapses last year that let hackers access their accounts. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Updated at 4:57 p.m. PDT with a statement from a Facebook spokesperson. A new feature within Twitter’s Facebook app that let users find who among their friends has a Twitter account appears to have been put on ice by Facebook. The feature would cull through Facebook contacts and compare the list of names to users [...]

A street vendor selling flags waves a South African national flag decorated with those of the countries participating in the 2010 World Cup, in the streets of Johannesburg. A number of World Cup teams have banned their players from using Twitter during the tournament but the micro-blogging service is getting in on the act with [...]

(AP) — Twitter plans to start using its own Web link shortener on addresses that users include in tweets. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Twitter engineer Nick Kallen posted a tweet late Wednesday night to highlight a new test feature that the microblogging service is working on. “We’re testing the ‘You both follow’ feature (in the profile sidebar),” Kallen wrote. “Only 10 percent of people have it for now.” Basically, this feature (if it ever takes off–loads of test [...]

A Yahoo! sign is seen in Times Square. Yahoo! is gingerly expanding Twitter-like social-networking features while trying to avoid privacy stumbles made by titans Facebook and Google. Yahoo! is gingerly expanding Twitter-like social-networking features while trying to avoid privacy stumbles made by titans Facebook and Google. (c) 2010 AFP