SOCIAL networking company Facebook has recently been in acquisition talks with Twitter, the micro-blogging company, according to a report by the Financial Times.

The negotiations put a valuation of as much as $US500 million ($767 million) on Twitter, which has become one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched start-ups, the paper said.

The talks, which were first reported by technology news website AllThingsD, were confirmed to the paper by two sources.

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Ive had a few people contact me about not receiving SMS updates from Twitter in the last few days. For those of us addicted to twitter and not afraid to admit it the loss of the SMS service for updates to your cell phone if you are in Australia is sad but inevitable to be honest.

Basically it comes down to the SMS costing twitter way to much $$$$, but with twitter clients being available for the iPhone I’m sure we will survive.

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This is a good read about one of my favorite social networking apps Twitter.

“What are you doing?”

That question is the rocket fuel for Twitter — a hot social-network service that lets you tell people what you are up to at any given moment of the day — via cellphone, instant messenger, or the Web. Never heard of it, you say?

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Source: USA Today

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The simple dictionary definition of “Twitter” is “microblogging/social networking platform that places a 140- character limit on each individual post/tweet.” However, describing Twitter thusly would fail to encapsulate the power of this new omnipresent medium. So, instead here are 101 examples of how Twitter members regularly use the service.

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