MicroBlogging

Report: Twitter buys TweetDeck for $40 million
The microblogging service has agreed to acquire the Twitter desktop client preferred by many of the social-media service’s most active users, according to a CNN report.

Published May 24, 2011.
Read more: ZDNet Asia

World Tweet world
Sooner or later an obituary will read: Tan Sri X leaves a wife, five children and 110,017 Twitter followers. I got the epiphany from a cartoon in The New Yorker, a weekly magazine. The cartoon hammer …..

Published May 22, 2011.
Read more: Asia News Network

China’s Weibos vs US’s Twitter: And the Winner Is?
Chinese tech company Sina Corporation (SINA) is the mandarin and cantonese version of Twitter. Their microblogs – better known in China as Weibo (pronounced ‘way-bore’) – has firmly established itself as the leading Chinese microblogging platform. Weibos are more of a Twitter-Facebook hybrid than a pure Twitter clone. Sina’s Weibo had more than 5 million users in early March 2010, according to …

Published May 17, 2011.
Read more: Forbes