Facebook officially announces support for hashtags

Facebook on Wednesday announced official support for hashtags after a successful run on other services like Instagram and Twitter. They’ve become a “vital part of popular culture” and since they’re already used organically on the social network anyway, they decided to make them a true feature.

In a blog post on the topic, Facebook said hashtags will now be clickable. This will allow users to see a feed of what other people are saying about a particular event or topic. Furthermore, users will now be able to search for a specific hashtag from the search bar, click on hashtags that originate from other services like Instagram and compose posts directly from the hashtag feed and search results.
The social network points out that, like always, users will be able to control the audience for a post, even when using hashtags.

We’re told that hashtags are just the first step in helping people more easily discover what others are talking about with regards to a specific topic or event. They plan to roll out more features in the coming weeks and months such as trending hashtags and deeper insights.

Rumors surfaced back in March that Facebook would be implementing hashtags, a feature that was made famous in 2007. If you aren’t familiar, hashtags are words or phrases that are prefixed with the # symbol and are used to group together all posts about a similar event or topic.

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Twitter claims to have 100m users

8 September 2011 Last updated at 21:54 GMT Twitter's boss believes users will tolerate seeing more adverts on their feeds The micro-blogging site Twitter has said active users have passed the 100 million mark, but it has no plans to become a public company.

The company's chief executive told a news conference it was preparing to increase its business range by broadening the areas of its service where adverts appear.

But Dick Costolo also said he wanted the business to remain independent.

He said active users, who log on at least once a month, rose 82% this year.

Half of these 100 million log on at least once a day.

Twitter raised $400m (£250m) in venture capital funding this summer.

Mr Costolo said: "We want to be able to remain independent, grow the business the way we want to, and not be beholden to public markets until we feel like we want to be."

The company began showing adverts in limited areas of its service in 2010.

But it is concerned that commercialisation sometimes alienates users of social media.

More adverts

Mr Costolo said the results had exceeded Twitter's expectations: "We now feel that based on the engagement rates we're seeing... that we're ready to expand this further."

Twitter plans to allow adverts on its service known as promoted tweets.

Previously, promoted tweets, such as a message promoting a coffee chain, would only appear if the user already followed that particular company.

Mr Costolo said the business could work relying solely on advertising income: "It's our firm belief that our advertising platform is the only revenue component that we need to have in the market in order to be a huge independent business."

Twitter allows people to send 140-character messages, or Tweets, to anyone who signs up to receive them.

It has 200 million registered users, while Facebook has 750 million.

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Mexico Twitter case breaches civil rights: lawyer

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has breached an international human rights charter by bringing terror charges against two social media users who wrongly reported an armed attack on a local school, a lawyer for the accused said.

The man and the woman face the threat of as much as 30 years in prison because they posted messages online and via Twitter late last month, warning that gunmen had stormed a primary school in the eastern coastal state of Veracruz.

"They took five children, an armed group," Gilberto Martinez, 48, a math teacher, wrote on his Twitter account on Aug. 25 as fear spread that gunmen had besieged the school.

Police allege that Maria de Jesus Bravo, 57, a local radio host, authored similar posts that sowed panic as parents rushed to save children from the reported attack.

The rumors spread quickly after witnesses spotted a burning car near the school, said Fidel Ordonez, an attorney for the accused, and prompted a crackdown by authorities on social media users which resulted in the arrests.

The two face terrorism charges that could get them 30 years in jail, Ordonez said, but their defense team says the case violates two articles of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Mexico signed.

"You cannot regard us as terrorists or saboteurs," the pair said in court documents filed by their lawyers on Monday, adding that they were simply exercising their right to free speech. In the Martinez Twitter posts, the teacher says that he is just relaying information from other sources.

Article 19 of the charter states "everyone shall have the right to ... seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice."

The Veracruz prosecutor's office did not immediately answer a request for comment on Tuesday. Local media quoted him as saying that the pair would be prosecuted under state laws banning acts which cause alarm or terror among the population.

International pressure should help to get the pair released in the next few weeks, Ordonez told Reuters by telephone.

"I have a very strong feeling that they will be released because this is truly an attack on civil rights," he added.

The pair are still being held in jail and likely to remain there until the next hearing which could come late this month or in early October, Ordonez said.

Mexico's efforts to combat drug smugglers have left more than 42,000 dead since President Felipe Calderon sent the army to confront traffickers less than five years ago.

However, the failure of Mexico's flawed justice system to convict suspects for serious crimes has sent authorities scrambling to find other ways to make charges stick.

President Felipe Calderon last week labeled as 'terrorists' suspected drug gang members accused of a deadly arson attack in the industrial northern city of Monterrey.

Veracruz, an oil-rich state on the Gulf of Mexico, has avoided the worst of the violence.

However, several attacks in recent months have had citizens turning to social media for unfiltered news, said Rupert Knox of Amnesty International. He said that the detained Mexican pair had been made to suffer for the overall lawlessness.

"This is an insecure environment where people turn to social media to try and keep themselves safe," he said. "These people are being scapegoated for the panic that ensued but the case should not stand up to scrutiny."

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No, you won't have to pay to use Twitter in October

Sophos

If you believe everything you read on Twitter, you might be under the impression that you need to sign some sort of online petition in order to keep using the micro-blogging service for free. Well, that idea isn't exactly true — and it could lure you into a password phishing scam.

The folks at Sophos report that the latest Twitter-based scam is luring users into handing over their login information by tricking them into following a malicious link.

Here's how the whole thing goes down:

A Twitter user sees a tweet along the lines of "Twitter might start to charge in October, sign this petition to keep the service free! [URL redacted]"The user clicks the link — a short URL which disguises the evil nature of the link.A site which looks very much like the real Twitter login page appears and the user sees a message that his or her session has expired.The user logs into the fake Twitter site and thereby hands over his or her username and password to some bad guy.

It's so simple that it's almost silly, no? But a lot of people are still falling for the scam.

What can you do if you happen to be one of those individuals who happened to follow the malicious link without thinking twice? Change your Twitter password immediately — and revoke all applications' access to your account. (You can reauthorize the legit ones individually afterwards.)

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Rosa Golijan writes about tech here and there. She's obsessed with Twitter and loves to be liked on Facebook. Oh, and she can be found on Google+, too.

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Twitter uses #earthquake to mock Nature's wrath, you

Every old joke is new again. Even though this picture is dated July 2010, it gained fresh Twitter popularity on Tuesday.

Immediately following news of a moderate earthquake in Virginia that was felt in Washington D.C., New York City and as far south as Chapel Hill, N.C., aftershocks — of sorts — rippled across the Internet. Many turned to the U.S. first-alert system by default — Twitter — to find and share news of damage in our nation's capital, travel delays and how much they did (or didn't) feel the earth shake.

Even more jumped online to mock panic, make witty reference of eschatological beliefs of a cataclysmic event in 2012/and or that one John Cusack movie, sarcastically mourn the reported split of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith, insult your political leanings, mock death and take advantage of ample opportunity for appending "that's what she said" on pretty much everything. And as is, I believe, required by law, the D.C. Earthquake now has its own Twitter account.

No less than eight tongue-in-cheek groups named around various versions of "I survived the Aug. 23 earthquake" popped up on Facebook, the most popular heading toward 1,800 "Likes" at the time of this post. A photo of the "D.C. devastation" on jmckinley's posterous blog post of July 2010 — a set of plastic lawn furniture with one toppled chair — became the popular photo link to retweet on Tuesday, quickly inspiring a photo meme of more earthquake non-devastation.

Even as nail-biting reports about Virginia nuclear plants that shut down circulated in the news, Foursquare tips on the new check-in "location" — Earthquakepcolypse — piled in by the thousands. (My fav, courtesy Matt S of Livingston, NJ: "Try the pie. It's delightful.")

Nothing inspires the humor center of the brain like the false sense of security that follows a quick reminder that Nature can kick your insignificant arse at anytime, only this time, it didn't. Observe.

On mocking your jokes:

@amorrissey: protip: someone's already made that #earthquake joke you're crafting.

@TheEricPatrick: You see that Will and Jada. You're the glue that's holding this country together! #earthquake

@yeltup2: 5.8 earthquake ...that's kind of big right? Oh oh THATS WHAT SHE SAID!

@darthwiggie Too many opportunities to add "that's what she said" with some of these #earthquake tweets. :-)

On mocking your Twitter use:

@zarchasmpgmr Friends in the NE — check your loved ones, get out of masonry buildings, look for danger, then post to Twitter. That's the correct order.

@villagevoice How are people going to tweet earthquake jokes if their cell phones aren't working?

On mocking your overreaction:

@maximosis MARTIAL LAW TO BE PUT INTO PLAY IN 26 MINUTES!! #EARTHQUAKE2011

@FINALLEVEL   As long as everyone's ok...... Keep it moovin.. The EARTH is gonna do whatever the f*** it wants to do.

@dylanmatt: "In retrospect, I resorted to cannibalism rather fast after the earthquake."

@d44pan:   If you don't go back to shopping then the earthquakes have already won. 

On mocking your beliefs:

@mike_walsh: That was not an earthquake.. It was our nation's founders rolling over

@politicoroger: “We wouldn’t be having earthquakes like this if Hillary were president.”

@ArmisteadMaupin: Earthquake in DC? Stand by for Biblical explanation from Pat Robertson

@BadAstronomer: I'll make this prediction now: psychics & bogus quake predictors will say they knew this was coming but have no hard evidence for it. @TheTweetOfGod: There was just a 5.8 earthquake in Washington. Obama wanted it to be 3.4, but the Republicans wanted 5.8, so he compromised.

On mocking New Yorkers:

@veronacodex:   Not to be mean to people who just had a scare but tagging #nycearthquake on an earthquake 317 miles from NYC is the most New York thing ever

@jdickerson: Everyone calm down. If this is an earthquake on the east coast we’re supposed to react ironically.”

@katz: "I felt that earthquake last week" - Brooklyn hipster

On mocking the earthquake:

@TimDuffy My favorite part was when we stopped working for a few minutes to talk about the earthquake. #nostalgia 

@baratunde: this #earthquake story is so over. can we talk about actual current events now?

@elizapi:Earthquake. Lolz. Thought I'd join in even if I'm nowhere near the east coast. It's the cool thing to do.

@hodgman: This guy in the cafe and I agree that we liked the earthquake when it first started. But now it's like, the wrong people are into it.

@dogboner: i hope ja rule is okay

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'First Date Hell' on Twitter sums it up swiftly

You can listen to your friends' long-winded sagas about their horrible first dates — or you can get a quicker fix about the rigors of modern romance on Twitter. There, with posts limited to 140 characters — characters, mind you, not words — very succinct portraits are being painted of the real characters out there in the dating world. And it's not pretty.

Some of the tweets on FirstDateHell are funny — "Had a terrible first date but now he's my accountant and quite a good one" — to creepy - "He got hammered, (urinated) against a tree in a park, and proceeded to tackle me to the ground ... when my back was turned" — to downright mean — "She said "I really hoped you'd be someone else,' and left."

Then there are incidents involving passing, er, gas:

And the strangest of the strange, including:

Many of the tweets have a distinct British sound to them — "took me to his local, then asked if I would mind helping behind the bar so the landlord could play darts with him & his mates," and "Told him I liked reading, he said he wanted to burn all libraries and then talked about football for hours. I hid in the loo."

That's because the Twitter account was created just last week by British writer Rhodri Marsden, who tweeted about a miserable evening out when he walked past a pub that "reminded me of a bad date I went on. I tweeted about. This is what ensued," he says on his website, FirstDateHell.com.

He's asking suffering first-daters from anywhere to send their tweets to @firstdatehell. And, he's also asking for a little discretion — and decency.

"Considering sending bad date' stories that involve mental or physical disability? Don't bother. Take a long, hard look at yourself instead," he says in one of his own tweets.

— Via Business Insider

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No, you won't have to pay to use Twitter in October

Sophos

If you believe everything you read on Twitter, you might be under the impression that you need to sign some sort of online petition in order to keep using the micro-blogging service for free. Well, that idea isn't exactly true — and it could lure you into a password phishing scam.

The folks at Sophos report that the latest Twitter-based scam is luring users into handing over their login information by tricking them into following a malicious link.

Here's how the whole thing goes down:

A Twitter user sees a tweet along the lines of "Twitter might start to charge in October, sign this petition to keep the service free! [URL redacted]"The user clicks the link — a short URL which disguises the evil nature of the link.A site which looks very much like the real Twitter login page appears and the user sees a message that his or her session has expired.The user logs into the fake Twitter site and thereby hands over his or her username and password to some bad guy.

It's so simple that it's almost silly, no? But a lot of people are still falling for the scam.

What can you do if you happen to be one of those individuals who happened to follow the malicious link without thinking twice? Change your Twitter password immediately — and revoke all applications' access to your account. (You can reauthorize the legit ones individually afterwards.)

Related stories:

Rosa Golijan writes about tech here and there. She's obsessed with Twitter and loves to be liked on Facebook. Oh, and she can be found on Google+, too.

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Say goodbye to 'Old Twitter'

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Are you still stubbornly using the old version of Twitter.com? The one that's dubbed "Old Twitter" and practically considered history? You are? Seriously? Ah, well. We've got some bad news for you: Twitter will soon force you to stop and switch to "New Twitter."

This is how the "Old Twitter" design looks.

Twitter broke the devestating news to users via a tweetyesterday, but no one should be particularly surprised that Old Twitter's time has come to an end. We knew that the moment was inevitable ever since Twitter first began rolling out its redesign back in September 2010.

This is the "New Twitter" design -- which most are seeing at this point.

There's little use in fighting the change, it seems. Despite the many demands that Old Twitter be left alone, the microblogging service is still going ahead with its plan to switch all users over to the shiny new version of its site by the end of this week.

So wave goodbye to the old design and embrace the new. Either that or hang on to Old Twitter as long as you can and post angry tweets when you are finally forced to let go.

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Rosa Golijan writes about tech here and there. She's obsessed with Twitter and loves to be liked on Facebook. Oh, and she can be found on Google+, too.

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Pre-caffeine tech: Twitter riots, psycho blogs, Michele Bachmann's eyes!

via BuzzFeed

Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today:

A dad whose blog, "The Psycho Ex Wife" was shut down by a family court judge is challenging that ruling, saying it violates his First Amendment rights. He doesn't say much about his kid's rights.

UK cops are using Flickr to identify UK rioters, posting a stream of photos of dudes wearing hoodies and face masks. Good luck with that.

Also, Google Maps offers this helpful guide to London's riots.

Sophos says 70 percent of you people don't password protect your mobile devices ... and that is not good.

FYI: A 10-year-old girl found bugs in both the iPhone and Android smartphones.

Zoo officials trying to establish North America's first elephant sperm bank have been slowed by bureaucratic hurdles but hope South African officials will approve shipping frozen elephant semen to the U.S. in about a month ... so we got that going for us.

IBM unplugged plans to build one of the world's fastest supercomputers at the University of Illinois, because it requires too much financial and technical support.

Meanwhile, the fastest browser in the world is ... Google Chrome! (According to Compuware.)

People mostly use LivingSocial for discounts on pole dancing lessons. Also, Mexican food.

In closing, the Michele Bachmann crazy eyes memes are well underway.  

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.

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Colbert takes over baseball's Twitter account

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You don't have to be a sports fan to want to follow Major League Baseball's Twitter account today. For one day only, the sport is turning over its feed to talk-show host and comedian Stephen Colbert.

You can follow the funnyman on Twitter @MLB, where he's offering some incisive insights about the game, such as "Pro Tip: If you're taken out to the ballgame, you don't need peanuts AND crackerjacks. The crackerjacks already have peanuts."

Colbert won control of the feed in a contest where he and a representative of the league each picked a player they thought would get a hit for the most straight days. Colbert had Albert Pujols, MLB picked Kevin Youkilis, and Colbert's player won.

And Colbert might have been a little confused about just what he was winning. He tweeted: "Am I the only person who thought @MLB was the twitter handle of Matt LeBlanc?"

He'll be tweeting until midnight Friday. As he writes in another tweet: "I can't wait to see Ken Burns' nine-part documentary about my control of baseball's Twitter feed."

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Twitter Confirms Significant Round of Funding

Twitter confirmed Tuesday that it has raised a “significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the participation of several of our existing investors.”

The announcement comes just weeks after rumors suggested that Twitter was in the process of raising $800 million in funding at an $8 billion valuation.

In a post on the company’s blog, Twitter talks about expanding the company’s reach with the new funding. “We will use these resources to aggressively innovate, hire more great people and invest in international expansion,” the company says.

The company, however, does not disclose the size of the round, its current valuation or whether it will cash out early employees and investors, as suggested by earlier reports. If the previously reported $800 million figure is accurate, Twitter has raised more than $1.15 billion in funding to date.

The round’s lead investor, Digital Sky Technologies, is a prominent late stage venture firm with sizable stakes in Facebook, Groupon and Zynga.

A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment further on the funding round.

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Top 10 Twitter Trends Last Month [CHART]

July was a month of escapism punctuated by tragic real-life events, if the month’s list of top trending topics on Twitter is any guide. At a time when kids are out of school and escaping the heat to an air-conditioned theater or a climate-controlled living room, it’s not surprising that entertainment topics dominated the list.

In particular, Nickelodeon’s “The ’90s Are All That” block of programming and the looming movie version of Phineas & Ferb dominated discussion, along with mainstays like Justin Bieber and soccer.

On the other hand, reality couldn’t be ignored as the shootings and bombing in Norway and the untimely death of Amy Winehouse also made the charts. Somewhat surprisingly, talk of the debt ceiling didn’t make the list, but that discussion got intense just as the month was ending. Latecomer Cowboys & Aliens monopolized a lot of the chatter toward the end of the month.

You can check Twitter trends from the past in our Top Twitter Topics section.

July saw both the Copa America football competition in South America and as the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany where Japan was victorious. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2The final installment in the Harry Potter film/book series generated a lot of conversation among fans. This was enhanced by the frequent appearance of the other seven Harry Potter films on international TV networks.Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension hits theaters on August 5. Fans of the old TV show talked about it for weeks.An explosion in Oslo and a mass shooting at Norwegian Labour Party’s youth camp on island Utoya, Buskerud in Norway prompted a show of support for the victims with a moment of silence.Why did Justin Bieber trend? Cause he’s the Biebs! Duh. Users talked a lot about Twitter this month with hashtags like #ThingsWeLearnedOnTwitter & #WhenTwitterWasDown.The TV channel TeenNick aired a block of programming called “The ’90s Are All That” which contained Nickelodeon shows from the 90s. Some of the trends that came from viewers reminiscing were Kenan & Kel, Drake & Josh, Doug, Clarissa Explains, Ren & Stimpy and Rugrats & Catdog.Many users on Twitter were absorbed by the closing arguments in the murder case against Casey Anthony and later voiced their opinion online when she was pronounced not guilty of killing her 2 year-old daughter, Caylee.Amy Winehouse was found dead in her flat. She was 27 and users noted that this is the same age as Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones and other members of the “27 Club.”The genre-blending film was released to theaters on July 29 and got a very positive response on Twitter.

Data aggregate courtesy of What the Trend.

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Did Newt Gingrich Buy Most of His Twitter Followers?

GOP candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has had one consolation during his faltering Presidential campaign: the size of his Twitter following.

His account, @Newtgingrich, is currently followed by more than 1.3 million users — a very impressive number, especially compared to GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, who has yet to reach 63,000 followers.

But now there’s more trouble for Newt, as one of his former staffers is alleging that the candidate paid various “follow agencies” to create fake accounts that follow him. “Newt employs a variety of agencies whose sole purpose is to procure Twitter followers for people who are shallow/insecure/unpopular enough to pay for them,” the anonymous staffer told Gawker. “If you simply scroll through his list of followers you’ll see that most of them have odd usernames and no profile photos, which has to do with the fact that they were mass generated.”

The staffer alleges that 80% of Newt’s followers — more than a million accounts, in other words — fall under the heading of fake.

You can test out the theory yourself by looking at Newt’s followers here. At time of writing, for example, three of the first six followers are accounts that have never tweeted, have no profile photo or biographical information, and have a very small number of followers themselves. The picture looks a little better for Newt when you examine the first 100 of his followers listed by Twitter: just 25% meet those criteria, a far cry from 80%. (That said, we have our doubts about plenty of accounts that meet just two of those criteria, such as “Angus Jack McFaux”.)

We look forward to a more thorough analysis from anyone with the time to scan all of Newt’s 1.3 million Twitter followers.

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Did your lame password let 'beach body' hack Twitter?

via Sophos

Thousands of Twitter users continue to endure tweets telling them to "get the beach body you've always wanted" possibly because one third of Internet users still insist on using the same password on multiple websites.

"The messages link to what pretends to be a news website, but is really designed to promote an Acai Berry 'miracle diet' marketed as 'Power Slim,' " reports Sophos. "The product claims to have been seen in the pages of Women's Health, Elle, Marie Claire, Oprah, Cosmopolitan and other magazines."

Sound familiar?

Claims about acai berries made in fake news stories that appear in pop-ups, Google search results, on real news sites (including msnbc.com) and even on WebMd.com got the beatdown earlier this year by the Federal Trade Commission.

The FTC filed charges against companies and individuals for allegedly blurring the lines between advertisements and journalism by promoting false information about acai and colon cleansing. In some cases, companies and individuals were hit with temporary restraining orders preventing assets from being moved or records from being destroyed. The offending websites must prominently display a statement that they are being sued by the FTC, or be removed from the Web.  

Meanwhile, this latest Twitter spam scam seems familiar as well.

"It could be that the users' passwords have been compromised, similar to another Acai Berry spam campaign we saw on Twitter at the end of last year following the Gawker password breach," writes Graham Cluley, Sophos senior tech consultant.

Hackers used passwords grabbed in the Gawker hack to infiltrate user accounts on Twitter and other sites. As Cluley points out, "Too many users (perhaps as many as a third) are still using the same password for every website they access."

If you find your Twitter account suddenly spamming your followers, change your password right away — on Twitter and anywhere else you're using that same password. In fact, even if you haven't been hacked, why not take this moment to switch up your passwords to the Twitter, Facebook and Google+ accounts you know you totally have open at work right now?

Here's a video from Sophos to help you think up some good ones:

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Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.

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Nice to tweet you! Harper Beckham debuts on Twitter

18 July 2011 Last updated at 02:29 GMT David Beckham with daughter Harper David and Victoria Beckham have posted pictures of themselves with baby Harper Seven on social networking sites.

Victoria shared the black and white snap of her husband cradling the child with her 1.5m followers on Twitter with the caption: "Daddy's little girl!"

And David posted a similar photo, this time of his wife and new daughter, on Facebook saying: "I took this picture of my two girls sleeping."

Harper, who is their fourth child, was born in Los Angeles on 10 July.

On Friday, the footballer posted on Facebook that the baby had been named after To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee.

He said: "Victoria's favourite book is To Kill A Mockingbird, it's a very strong, passionate book and the author was Harper Lee, and that is where Harper came from.

David Beckham posted this picture of his wife with the new baby

"The main reason behind Seven was it symbolises spiritual perfection - the seven wonders of the world, the seven colours of the rainbow - and in many cultures it is a lucky number.

"We love the name and we love Harper Seven. We are very happy to have her in our lives and in our family, and it is an amazing time for our family right now."

On Sunday, during a game against real Madrid, the LA Galaxy footballer wore a pair of football boots with the names of all four of his children stitched on in pink.

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Anne Curtis Rides MRT to Kylie Minogue Concert, MRT Becomes Twitter Trending Topic

One thing I love about Anne Curtis is that she never lets her popularity and superstardom get to her head.

Who'd expect to see a celebrity as big as her riding the MRT? Well, that's exactly what she did earlier this evening --

Photo Credit: GoodyDoodyJoevert

Rushing to Kylie Minogue's concert happening in Araneta Coliseum, the lovely Anne Curtis took the train to avoid traffic.

That photo of her riding one of the MRT buses somehow found its way to Twitter. And in no time, MRT (Oddly enough, not Anne herself -- I'm sure she won't mind.) became a Twitter Trending Topic in the Philippines --

TP Thoughts:

I have the biggest crush on Anne Curtis. She's just the best. I hope Anne can give a shout-out to all TP Friends! :)

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