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European Firms Try Out Twitter

By JAVIER ESPINOZA LONDON—Last month, citizenrobert was enjoying “the pleasures of slow cooking.” The month before, he was battling with “brutal” winds in Suffolk. Citizenrobert, it turns out, is Robert Phillips, the U.K. chief executive of public-relations firm Edelman, and he has been using the microblogging site Twitter to share his views and anecdotes with his [...]

Can a print journalist reinvent herself?

Let me just say right up front: I did not volunteer to reinvent myself. I was drafted. I wasn’t interested in being another me; I was cool with the me that I was. I was a reporter for  The Washington Post, one of the most respected newspapers in the world. To add icing to my [...]

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

By STEVEN JOHNSON Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It’s not as if we were [...]

What Facebook’s Stumble Can Teach Your Company

Who owns the content in the social network and who controls it?