Techmeme (Tuesday)

Lisa Donovan / Chicago Sun Times:
Tweet about apartment mold draws lawsuit  —  It was a not-so-sweet Tweet about a Chicago apartment.  —  So Horizon Group Management LLC filed a libel lawsuit Monday against former te...

Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

69% of adults surveyed have little knowledge of what Twitter is, the LATimes reports, citing a LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll.

Of 2,025 adults surveyed, 69% said they didn't know enough about Twitter to comment on it.

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Reuters (Tuesday)
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government has published a guide to help ministers understand how to use the social networking site Twitter, with the aim of extending its news and corporate messages online.

Techmeme (Tuesday)

Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
Google's Marissa Mayer Is On Twitter (GOOG)  —  Google exec Marissa Mayer — whom internal Twitter documents described as a “huge distraction” — has finally signed up ...

Engadget (Tuesday)
Perhaps the big G spoke to soon when it said its new Google Voice service was coming to iPhone. First, GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs relays a phone call he had with Apple where he was notified of his app being removed from the iTunes store for duplicati...

Valleywag (Monday)

The Wall Street Journal got tabloidy; the New York Times got snarky and a full-time kvetcher decided to stop complaining. The Twitterati were feeling experimental.

Wall Street Journal editor Alan Murray hilariously lampo...