<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - microblogging</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/microblogging</link><description>Newsvine - microblogging</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:32:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 03:04:35 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>At Mao-style conclave, China embraces Twitter age</title>
<description><![CDATA[During China's last party congress, the cadres in charge of the world's most populous nation didn't know a hashtag from a hyperlink. But five years on, there's a new message from Beijing: The political transition will be microblogged.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexa Olesen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alexa Olesen]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15128880-at-mao-style-conclave-china-embraces-twitter-age</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15128880-at-mao-style-conclave-china-embraces-twitter-age</guid><category>technology</category><category>china</category><category>congress</category><category>as</category><category>microblogging</category><category>the-congress</category><category>during-china</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:46:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8b2368ba-d13d-4dc1-a7f3-0e6f14ce81df.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8b2368ba-d13d-4dc1-a7f3-0e6f14ce81df.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Nov. 9, 2012 photo, Communist Party delegate Zheng Yanxiong uses his laptop during a group discussion meeting as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. During China's last party congress, the cadres in charge of the world's most populous nation didn't know a hashtag from a hyperlink. But five years on, there's a new message from Beijing: The political transition will be microblogged. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=295831f8-c2ae-4ee6-b8b3-7632191470fe.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=295831f8-c2ae-4ee6-b8b3-7632191470fe.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Chinese man uses a computer at the press center of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. During China's last party congress, the cadres in charge of the world's most populous nation didn't know a hashtag from a hyperlink. But five years on, there's a new message from Beijing: The political transition will be microblogged. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=47a56e43-1a85-4d1a-af74-288fecd8e05e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=47a56e43-1a85-4d1a-af74-288fecd8e05e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The microblog of Mao Zedong's grandson Mao Xinyu is displayed on a computer screen at the press center of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. During China's last party congress, the cadres in charge of the world's most populous nation didn't know a hashtag from a hyperlink. But five years on, there's a new message from Beijing: The political transition will be microblogged. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4f9d651b-ec88-4a13-9ced-31bd142b50d3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="414" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4f9d651b-ec88-4a13-9ced-31bd142b50d3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="124" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Nov. 9, 2012 photo, a Communist Party delegate uses her iPhone with an iPad resting on her legs during a group discussion meeting as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. During China's last party congress, the cadres in charge of the world's most populous nation didn't know a hashtag from a hyperlink. But five years on, there's a new message from Beijing: The political transition will be microblogged. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Charlie Sheen signs off from Twitter -- for good?</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/15/12755632-charlie-sheen-signs-off-from-twitter-for-good</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/15/12755632-charlie-sheen-signs-off-from-twitter-for-good</guid><category>for</category><category>sheen</category><category>twitter</category><category>garnered</category><category>microblogging</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>hashtag</category><category>quotwinningquot</category><category>altcharlie</category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:45:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-cvr-110307-charlie-sheen.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-cvr-110307-charlie-sheen.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Charlie Sheen, who made the Twitter hashtag &quot;#winning&quot; as popular as his account — he garnered 2 million followers after being on Twitter for less than a week — says he's signed off the microblogging site. Whether it's permanent remains to be seen.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Twitter revs up speed with improvements</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/30/11958220-twitter-revs-up-speed-with-improvements</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/30/11958220-twitter-revs-up-speed-with-improvements</guid><category>messaging</category><category>fix</category><category>load</category><category>twitter</category><category>microblogging</category><category>sped</category><category>nimble</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 17:00:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/394130-oom-twitter-newbird-boxed-whiteonblue-streams-desktop-small.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="205" width="286" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/394130-oom-twitter-newbird-boxed-whiteonblue-streams-desktop-small.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Can't get your Twitter fix fast enough? Maybe now you can; the short messaging site says it has sped up page load times so that the microblogging service is even more nimble.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Twitter censorship #outrage, now in cartoon form!</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/30/10275415-twitter-censorship-outrage-now-in-cartoon-form</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/30/10275415-twitter-censorship-outrage-now-in-cartoon-form</guid><category>media</category><category>animation</category><category>censor</category><category>microblogging</category><category>tweets</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>new-media-animation</category><category>taiwan's</category><category>new-media-animation<p><br</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:50:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/helenaspopkin61BA71C3-ED3C-9780-2FE1-F6B510DED421.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="223" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/helenaspopkin61BA71C3-ED3C-9780-2FE1-F6B510DED421.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="67" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Twitter's recent announcement that it will censor specific tweets from some countries resulted in an anti-climatic &quot;boycott&quot; of the microblogging service on Saturday, and more importantly, a cartoon-ified interpretation by those clever kids at Taiwan's New Media Animation.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Twitter virus among shortest on record</title>
<description><![CDATA[A new way to cause mischief quickly spread through short-messaging service Twitter on Tuesday morning before the site could fix the problem, as mysterious "tweets" of blocked-out text propagated themselves and caused popup windows to open. Shortly before 10 a.m. Eastern ET Tuesday Twitter said on its "safety" feed on the site that the attack had been shut down. It also said it does not believe that any user information was compromised, rather, the "vast majority" of the breaches were pranks or promotions. The hack had been extra nefarious because the tweets activated without being clicked on — it was enough for Web surfers to move their mouse cursors over them. But it only affected visitors to Twitter.com. Various third-party programs used to send and read tweets, such as Tweetdeck, were unaffected. The popups could, though didn't necessarily, contain malicious code that could take over poorly protected computers. The White House's official Twitter feed — followed b]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/21/5150647-twitter-virus-among-shortest-on-record</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/21/5150647-twitter-virus-among-shortest-on-record</guid><category>media</category><category>white-house</category><category>security</category><category>users</category><category>hack</category><category>mashable</category><category>redirects</category><category>third-party</category><category>twitter</category><category>cursors</category><category>microblogging</category><category>twittercom</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>tweetdeck</category><category>eastern-et</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:07:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Twitter outage resolved, site getting up to speed</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Twitter outage that lasted several hours on Wednesday was resolved, and the microblogging site appeared to be getting back to normal after a problem with "networking equipment" was fixed. Some users were still having trouble, however, getting onto the site.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Suzanne Choney]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Suzanne Choney]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/09/4486253-twitter-outage-resolved-site-getting-up-to-speed</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/09/4486253-twitter-outage-resolved-site-getting-up-to-speed</guid><category>election</category><category>internet</category><category>site</category><category>users</category><category>slowness</category><category>twitter</category><category>microblogging</category><category>tweets</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>tech-and-gadgets</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:44:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>China tries microblogging top political event</title>
<description><![CDATA[So this is how you get through China's biggest political event of the year: "Sit still, stare toward the front, pretend like you're looking but you're really not, pretend like you're listening but you're really not ... make your brain blank."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cara Anna]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Cara Anna]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/09/3996981-china-tries-microblogging-top-political-event</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/09/3996981-china-tries-microblogging-top-political-event</guid><category>technology</category><category>china</category><category>politics</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><category>microblogging</category><pubDate>Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:32:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/36a7ec8e-2103-4d08-81ec-566c9e4f3035.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/36a7ec8e-2103-4d08-81ec-566c9e4f3035.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A delegate uses his laptop at the end of a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. As delegates to the National People's Congress dip into the world of microblogging, the Chinese public is getting a rare casual glimpse inside the workings, and nonworkings, of power.(AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a85d607a-9e52-42a6-bd96-a39d676482ae.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a85d607a-9e52-42a6-bd96-a39d676482ae.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A delegate uses his laptop at the end of a session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at  Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. As delegates to the National People's Congress dip into the world of microblogging, the Chinese public is getting a rare casual glimpse inside the workings, and nonworkings, of power.(AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/29d9c25f-de6c-4fe1-b418-98e3ab56f4c5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="245" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/29d9c25f-de6c-4fe1-b418-98e3ab56f4c5.jpg" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Chinese delegate uses his laptop at the end of a session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at  Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. As delegates to the National People's Congress dip into the world of microblogging, the Chinese public is getting a rare casual glimpse inside the workings, and nonworkings, of power. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Bill Gates now on Twitter</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates is now on Twitter — the real Bill Gates, not an impostor.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Suzanne Choney]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Suzanne Choney]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/19/3780201-bill-gates-now-on-twitter</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/19/3780201-bill-gates-now-on-twitter</guid><category>health</category><category>kutcher</category><category>gates</category><category>bill-gates</category><category>day-one</category><category>twitter</category><category>microblogging</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>tech-and-gadgets</category><category>gates-twitter</category><category>nbc-universal<p><p>while</category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:07:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100119-GatesTwitter-hmed-541p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="293" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100119-GatesTwitter-hmed-541p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Bill Gates joined the ranks of those tweeting on Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Changing travel one tweet at a time</title>
<description><![CDATA[“There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people.”]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Elliott]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Christopher Elliott]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/16/2320156-changing-travel-one-tweet-at-a-time</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/16/2320156-changing-travel-one-tweet-at-a-time</guid><category>technology</category><category>travel</category><category>blogger</category><category>comm</category><category>youre</category><category>twitter</category><category>microblogging</category><category>tweet</category><category>christopher-elliott</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:48:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/090116-twitterpage-vmed-9a.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="356" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/090116-twitterpage-vmed-9a.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="107" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>