A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles October 13, 2009. Hollywood is increasingly relying on Twitter and Facebook to gauge popular buzz on movies even before they come out, in a move reflecting the power of average filmgoers over once-mighty film critics and detailed surveys. Picture taken October 13. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles October 13, 2009. Hollywood is increasingly relying on Twitter and Facebook to gauge popular buzz on movies even before they come out, in a move reflecting the power of average filmgoers over once-mighty film critics and detailed surveys. Picture taken October 13.

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  2. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone jokingly 'Tweets' as he poses for photographers at the start of the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  3. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is interviewed during the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  4. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone poses for photographers at the start of the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  5. Delegates at the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  6. Delegates at the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22, 2009. Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers. Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
  7. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, Inc., is interviewed following his keynote speech at the 140: Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles September 22, 2009.
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  9. In this photo released by American Lung Association, a sheet of new Christmas Seals is shown in New York, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Emily Bissell, started selling Seals in 1907 to help fight the battle against tuberculosis with a design she created. The American Lung Association is helping fight lung disease and advocate for clean air. It has also launched e-cards in an appeal to younger audiences depicting it's entire archive of designs and offers a Facebook application as well.
  10. In this photo released by American Lung Association, actress Mary Duffy portrays Emily Bissell, founder of the Christmas Seals campaign, as she hands out samples Christmas Seals to mail carrier Steve Revell in front of the James A. Farley Post Office in New York, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Helping to fight lung disease and advocate for clean air, the American Lung Association has launched e-cards and a Facebook application in an appeal to younger audiences depicting it's entire archive of designs as far back as 1907.
  11. In this photo released by American Lung Association, actress Mary Duffy, portrays Emily Bissell, founder of the Christmas Seals campaign, as she hands out samples of Christmas Seals in front of the James A. Farley Post Office in New York, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Helping to fight lung disease and advocate for clean air, the American Lung Association has also launched e-cards and a Facebook application in an appeal to younger audiences depicting it's entire archive of designs as far back as 1907.
  12. Marketing Director of Facebook Randi Zuckerberg speaks during the Youth Engagement Summit 2009 in Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur November 17, 2009.
  13. Marketing director of Facebook Randi Zuckerberg speaks during the Youth Engagement Summit 2009 in Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur November 17, 2009.
  14. View of the Oxford American College dictionary taken in Washington on November 16, 2009. The New Oxford American Dictionary named 'unfriend' -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday. Oxford University Press USA, in a blog post, said 'unfriend,' a verb, had bested netbook, sexting, paywall, birther and death panel for the honor.'Unfriend has real lex-appeal,' said Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer for Oxford�s US dictionary program.
  15. Directed Electronics is giving away one Viper SmartStart every two weeks on Facebook. Visit www.viper.com/smartstart and click on the Facebook link for details.
  16. A picture taken on November 8, 2009 in Paris shows an image from the 'Facebook' page of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, called 'Memories of the fall of the Berlin wall, on November 9, 1989.' The photo shows Sarkozy (C), then deputy general secretary of the rightist RPR party, in front of the Berlin wall, the day it came down.

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