"Important moral issues are being discussed on prime time.
Sina.com and Netease.com — two of the nation's biggest online portals — blocked keyword searches of the word "Egypt," though the mass protests were being discussed on some Internet chat rooms on Monday.
On a Monday, I'd mentioned to a friend in Vancouver that there was a guy in Baghdad who was blogging and my friend asked me "what the fuck is blogging?" By the Friday, blogging was being discussed on the evening news.
You can't shuck and jive at a press conference, you can't just put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you saying, 'Answer the question.' " On Thursday, Mr. Cuomo's choice of words was being discussed on political blogs.
Finally, Mr. Costolo gave some new growth numbers - Twitter has more than 160 million users and is adding 370,000 a day - and said the company was working on ways to help users discover real-time events that are being discussed on Twitter, like conversations around an earthquake or sporting event.
Within a week, the mouse was on life-support.Even as the agreement was being discussed, on the 16th, three soldiers involved in a four-month-old protest led by senior officers in a Caracas square were kidnapped, tortured and murdered, along with a young female companion.
And, it has been discovered, that such results are being discussed on internet forums.
The data is also being made available to universities — like the University of California, Berkeley or Columbia University — for their media schools to better understand the topics that are being discussed on 24-hour news networks, for instance.
WAVE focuses on some of the more technical issues in building an online presence in China — whether a business' website is even accessible from China, whether it shows up in Chinese search engines, and whether their products are being discussed on Chinese social networks.
Last month, the company launched #music, another app, which allows people to discover and share music that's being discussed on Twitter.
As the accusations were being discussed on PTI on Tuesday afternoon, Mike Wilbon suggested yet another possible cause for a late change to the strategy that wouldn't have had anything to do with sabotage.
