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Aurora shootings on Twitter: The unforgivable and the serious

When an event as senselessly painful as the Aurora shootings occurs, it's inevitable that Twitter -- where feelings are expressed instantly and often without thought -- will reveal humanity's inner self.

So as the sheer horror of the murders was exposed through witness accounts, the tweets flowed in reaction.

Pride of place, surely, went to the Celeb Boutique fashion store. It was so excited that the hashtag #aurora was trending that it couldn't contain its feelings.

"#Aurora is trending, clearly about our Kim K inspired dress ;)" said the tweet, with a link to the Kim … Read more

Twitter lowers boom on new celeb-tracking site

JustSpotted, a Web site that today began ballyhooing an upcoming service that would publish the real-time whereabouts of celebrities, can no longer crow about its cozy relationship with Twitter.

It seems that Twitter was unaware of the relationship.

Just as JustSpotted managers were drumming up publicity, Twitter was canceling a licensing deal that would have given JustSpotted special access to Twitter posts, a Twitter representative said today.

Earlier on Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter published a story about the upcoming launch of JustSpotted, a company that wanted to sift through millions of Twitter posts to single out tweets from people who … Read more

The top 25 most influential...fans of CNET TV

Forbes just put out another of those crazy lists where it proposes to identify the top Web celebrities--following a recent spate of other lists of top Tweeters and talkers and Web-famous types. And while we don't dispute the attractiveness of doing stupid lists to get people to look at your content (see: CNET Top 5), it could be said that the Web 2.0 elite is getting, well, nauseatingly self-congratulatory.

So, Tom Merritt and I decided to make our own list of influential people on the Web. These are some, but only some, of the top CNET TV fans … Read more

CelebSpleak: OMG, teen gossip is fun!

CelebSpleak is a new social network that's all network. The teen-targeted celebrity gossip engine from Spleak Media maintains just enough of a Web site to instruct neophyte chatterboxes how to use CelebSpleak. Users can add CelebSpleak as an AIM or MSN (now Windows Live Messenger) contact, or lodge the CelebSpleak widget into a blog or MySpace profile.

From there, users can read and send short-burst messages about celebrities or respond to gossip, known as "tattles" here, that's posted by other teens--or posers like me. Interacting on IM feels like a DOS throwback, where punching keys leads … Read more