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@yahoo + @twitter Sitting in a Tree…T.W.E.E.T.I.N.G.
Yahoo! Gives ‘Em Something to Tweet About, Partnering with Twitter to Integrate Content and Social Experiences from Across the Web
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 24, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — As part of its ongoing commitment to be the center of people’s online lives, Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced a global partnership [...]

Google has admitted to BBC News that testing of its controversial social network Buzz was insufficient.
The firm has had to make a series of changes to the service after a ferocious backlash from users concerned about intrusions of privacy.
The BBC understands that Buzz was only tested internally and bypassed more extensive trials with external testers [...]

Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called ‘Buzz’
Google, which has faltered in its attempts to break into the booming social networking business, is making another bid to counter the growing influence of Silicon Valley rival Facebook and San Francisco upstart Twitter with new products that make it easier to share with [...]

Bit.ly Partners with Security Firms to Block Spams, Scams from Twitter
Bit.ly, the service Twitter uses to shorten URLs to keep them under the service’s 140-character limit, announced partnerships on Monday with Verisign, Websense and Sophos that are designed to keep spam and malicious software off of the network.
The partnerships should help solve a major problem [...]

Today is a significant day.  Not only did comScore rank Technorati Media as the fifth largest social media property, we’re also pleased to announce the re-launch of a wholly new Technorati.com. Technorati was founded to help people find great blog content, and with this launch, we’ve improved some of the existing ways and added a [...]

Today we’ve added another tool to our spam fighting toolbox that will give users the ability to flag bad accounts on Twitter.
Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable. Click the “Report as spam” button under the Actions section of a profile’s sidebar and our Trust [...]