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Though optimistic pundits have declared Twitter largely responsible for social uprisings like Arab Spring, the microblogging network is hardly going to usher in a more liberated future. It's a business, after all, and it bends to the law like every other business does. Over at Foreign Policy's Passport, Uri Friedman counts the ways that Twitter looks more like a tool of the present than a harbinger of better tomorrows. More »
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Back in August, the earth-shatteringly important topic that is Beyoncé's baby bump broke the world record for the most tweets per second (TPS). The singer's pregnancy reveal accrued a stunning 8,868 TPS. More »
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Dan Sinker, former editor Punk Planet, caused a huge stir when he tweeted as a fake Rahm Emanuel, and his tweet-story became increasingly satirical and absurdist. The result is being released as a book, The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest Of @MayorEmanuel, and to celebrate, Sinker is tweeting a new science fiction story tomorrow as @HuffPostBooks. More »
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The first teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn is out. Even though we don't see the characters' mouths jabbering, Snowy ("Milou" to all you Francophones) and the Unicorn pirate ship look rather nifty. More »
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Do you want to imagine Superman going Super-pantsless? If not, then don't do a search on the Twitter hashtag: #Supermanrenouncespants. Started by DC Comics writer Gail Simone, it already includes such gems as: More »
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Joe Stone is a man on a mission. After designing family trees for the X-Men and Fantastic Four, he's drafted this diagram for the Avengers, which highlights the sexual exploits Aunt May and the Avengers' venerable manservant Jarvis.* More »
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It's been in the works for positively forever, but FX has finally ordered a pilot episode of Brian Michael Bendis' and Michael Avon Oeming's long-running superhero series Powers. Yesterday Bendis confirmed the news when he tweeted: More »
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For those of you with a penchant for plate tectonics, there are plenty of places on Twitter to follow our planet's earthquakes as they happen. More »
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There are many ways to find the location of people on the internet. Some people are located through technology — but some people give away their location by their word choice. Internet speech is more regional than we'd previously thought. More »
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Today physicists announced that they may have found the key to explaining dark matter in the universe. It all has to do with the potential discovery of a "sterile neutrino." More »
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What if Margaret Atwood gave up her career as a novelist and turned her attention to drawing superhero comics? She gives us a taste with her drawings of Twitter users as superpowered incarnations of their user names. More »
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If the Internet was built so that people could post pictures of their cats, then Twitter was built for this. Artists came up with their best kitty-Marvel mashups and tweeted the adorable results. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5641343&view=rss&microfeed=true If only someone had been holding the Emperor accountable and publishing the truth, maybe Admiral Ackbar would have known it was a trap in advance. The #wookieleaks tag on Twitter is a work of pure awesomeness, including Ewok intelligent design and the lack of WMDs on Alderaan. Update: As ElSpanielo points out, there's also a #Wookieeleaks tag. [Thanks Franco!] More »
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Don't believe the latest batch of ugly rumors that have been circulating about the Pet Sematary remake. It won't be rated PG as long as producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura has a say. More »
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Today marked an evolution of sorts for Twitter. It's no longer just for following your favorite celebrity rants or for informing your followers you're having a ham sandwich or just took a shower. More »
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We're back, taking it to the tweets and tearing an unsuspecting Netflix-able movie a new one. But the twist is, this week, you guys decide which film gets to feel our collective wrath. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5534810&view=rss&microfeed=true Internet, your narcissism has been validated. The Library of Congress will archive all public tweets for historical purposes. Somewhere in the unfathomable future, a historian really, really cares that you had a Reuben for lunch today. [Physorg] More »
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What alternate-universe mash-up would you invent if you went back in time via hot tub? Think you can come up with something better than Rob Corddry's Twittagra — a combination of Twitter and Viagra? Let us know, and win. More »
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With criticism about the show's final season, and their admission that it won't answer all lingering questions, starting to be heard, Lost's executive producers have discovered the true purpose of Twitter: Vague rebuttals. And fan contests. More »
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The BPRD wants you - and they're willing to give away their entire history to get you. Dark Horse are offering the chance to "join" Hellboy's secret paranormal investigation division, and they're sweetening the deal with a one-day-only Twitter contest. More »
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We don't know if they're spoilers or someone in Syfy's online department having fun, but the Twitter account "belonging to" Caprica's Serge the robot has been offering up some unusual comments lately... Potential spoilers ahead. More »
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Been missing out on the further adventures of Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Dark Horse Comics wants to help with a Twitter lottery to win all Season 8 collections to date. Go here for details, but hurry: It's only running today. More »
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Feeling left out after the conclusion of Doctor Who's "End Of Time, Part One"? Now you can fix that by changing your Twitter avatar to the Master. Somewhere, John Simm must be cringing in horror. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5435024&view=rss&microfeed=true Wondering what Batman is up to on his travels through time? You could wait for Grant Morrison's The Return of Bruce Wayne, or you see what he's tweeting at TimeLostBatman. However, Batman's tweets aren't precisely in character: More »
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Last night Nathan Fillion twitter asked us all if we spotted the Firefly reference in the new episode of Castle. We think we got it: Two by two... More »
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Ever dreamed of collaborating on a story with Neil Gaiman? Today, you'll get your chance as Gaiman launches an experiment to create an original story using the collaborative power of Twitter. More »
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How does the collective internet hivemind mark the momentous occasion of NASA bombing the moon? By creating a Twitter meme called "At War With The Moon," of course. Click through to discover life during this new lunar wartime. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5378517&view=rss&microfeed=true OK, I get that people like to follow characters from their favorite TV shows on Twitter. I like the fake celeb phenom as much as the next person, and I even like some of the real celebs who give us a daily tweet or two. But seriously, folks, who really wants to follow "The Sullivan Bros Circus" on Twitter? Yes, that's the circus that new baddie Samuel is the boss of. And yes, the circus tweets "in character," which is to say WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE A CIRCUS IS NOT A CHARACTER. When will the social media fuckwits behind this campaign just cut it out? More »
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Wonder just what was going through the heads ofFringe writers when they came up with last season's finale? This Thursday, you'll get a chance to learn firsthand, thanks to the magic of Twitter. More »
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's Twitter: "I do still have the Conan sword, and I keep it in my office. Here's a picture." More »
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It's Twitter as Ada Lovelace would have imagined. To conserve characters and keep transmissions private, Victorians often wrote their telegrams in code. Refer to this handy list to make your tweets more efficient and confuse your friends. [NYT via Metafilter] More »
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Didn't get passes to Comic Con? Looking for even more obsessive coverage than what you'll find here on io9? Fear not. Twitter's got you covered snugger than a lightsaber-slashed Tauntaun. Here's the Twitter accounts you'll want to follow this week. More »
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After hearing about Hollywood's sticker shock over the Bioshock movie's rumored $160 million dollar budget, we knew they'd be coming up with new ideas to try and lower the overall cost. But if the rumored lead actor gets the part, it'll be kind of a steal for Universal. More »
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Conservative website American Daily Review has a new article by Dr. Tony Mangana with the provocative title, "What Star Wars Teaches Conservatives." But does Mangana really understand Star Wars? More »
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Terminator Salvation is not only embracing the iPhone, they've also launched an elaborate Twitter game. Isn't turning us into slaves of the machines exactly what Skynet wants? More »
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Jon Favreau posted a maquette of Woola, the friendly dog-like calot, from when he was producing John Carter of Mars. Click through to see a piece of Woola concept art from the abandoned Paramount production. More »
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Is fake-Twittering the new fan fiction? We think so! It’s pithy, witty, and boundless in possibilities. Lately it seems like these micro-compositions are omnipresent: Pretty much every Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Batman character has a feed. But we’ve come to learn that some imitations are more potent than others. We've got 10 fab fauxs you need in your life, in no particular order. More »
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The movie may still be breaking records in theaters, but does that mean that it's too early to start a marketing campaign for The Dark Knight's DVD and BluRay release in December? Apparently not, as many Twitter users discovered on Friday afternoon, when a familiar face asked to befriend them. More »
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Our favorite creepy use of social networking these days has to be EmbraceChange's Twitter feed. The anonymous supporter of Marvel Comics' Skrull Secret Invasion has been offering calm, 140-character messages urging everyone to sit back, relax and accept our new alien rulers, like "Your days of poverty, hardship, disease and greed are over" and "We wish no harm or bloodshed..but we will do what must be done to save you." You'll find yourself wishing that we really were about to be saved by ribbed-chinned alien invaders. [EmbraceChange] More »
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First the plants started using the phone, and now they're using Web 2.0 mini-blog tool Twitter to send you updates on how they're feeling minute-by-minute. You think I'm kidding, but O'Reilly's Brady Forrest is here to tell you all about how your plants can use the internet to Twitter about how thirsty they are. I'm glad we jumped right from mammals to plants on this one, because if my cat started Twittering that would be way too annoying. [O'Reilly Radar] More »
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