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Tips For Live Tweeting An Event Live tweets from an event are a great way to catch people's attention and build a following. Especially if they're done right. I've live tweeted several events, most notably Barack Obama's Inauguration...

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10 Pros And 10 Cons Of Twitter For Journalists Like anything, Twitter has its advantages and disadvantages. Whether you're new to Twitter or not, it's important you're able to identify these and adjust to use Twitter in the best ways possible. Here's...

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How To Verify A Tweet Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That's because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the...

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Short And Sweet: A New Generation Of News If it's not in 140 characters or less, you may lose them. They glance at what you say. If you're good, they may spend a few extra seconds. If not, they've moved on. Words. Links. Short, sweet, and...

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The Many Ways Journalists Can Use Twitter Because of its simplicity, Twitter has great potential for many different uses and applications. With a little creativity, the possibilities are nearly endless. A recent survey out of Norway sheds...

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U.S. Fears Plans To Build Mosque At Ground Zero After 70 Killed In Attacks At Mosques In Pakistan

Posted by Mary Beth Weissmueller | Posted in News | Posted on 28-05-2010

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More than 70 people died after suspected Islamist militants attacked two mosques in Pakistan. The mosques were located in the Model Town and Garhi Shuha areas. The mosques were filled with worshipers, most of minority religious groups in Pakistan, when attacked by what seems to be 7 men that were involved, including three suicide bombers.

Pakistan Blocks Facebook, YouTube & Social Media

Posted by Maria Khan | Posted in Commentary, News | Posted on 20-05-2010

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#Pakistan Facebook YouTube Ban -Twitpic posted by @ Pakblogger: "Islamic parties/organizations/groups united and on roads to get Facebook banned in Pakistan"

Pakistan blocked access to Facebook on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 following the highly controversial “Everybody draw Muhammad Day” Facebook group, and one day later YouTube is shut down as well.

The blanket ban on social media comes a day before the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, May 20, 2010, which is being celebrated today on Facebook.

Twitter is going abuzz with a multitude of opinions over the controversial debate between religion and freedom of speech.

UN Report Concludes Pakistan’s Negligence In Bhutto Murder

Posted by Maria Khan | Posted in News | Posted on 16-04-2010

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Twitpic by @Asnycnow15News

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

(Benazir Bhutto, 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007)

Soraya Vivas, tweeted this quote on Friday, April 16, 2010 in response to UN’s report blaming Pakistan’s then President, Pervez Musharraf’s military-led government for failing to prevent the assassination of ex-Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

Salim Jiwa, a Vancouver-based journalist and author responded:

“@BCLobbyist It would be nice for him to respond about his government’s failure to protect Bhutto.”

Musharraf’s aide, Rashid Qureshi claims the former President had already resigned at the time and thus he was not in charge of Pakistani security:

“The report makes absurd statements. The inquiry was not well conducted.” (BBC)