NKOTB singer Wahlberg tweets Tenn. fan a kidney AP – Donnie Wahlberg’s Twitter skills have helped find a kidney for an ailing fan from Nashville, Tenn. Read more on omg!

Twitter updates (04/15/2011) Your regular dose of celeb tweets! Read more on The Times of India

Tweets of the week rioferdy5 ( Rio Ferdinand ) – Was involved in a ‘ Twitter ‘ joust with Piers Morgan this week “Tweeps I’ve got the Grammar detective on my case over spelling names wrong etc…this isn’t school! Spell checkers shows old age+bore off!” Read more on Evening Standard

Tweets of the week rioferdy5 ( Rio Ferdinand ) – Was involved in a ‘ Twitter ‘ joust with Piers Morgan this week “Tweeps I’ve got the Grammar detective on my case over spelling names wrong etc…this isn’t school! Spell checkers shows old age+bore off!” Read more on Evening Standard

50% of Tweets Consumed Come From .05% of Users ajensen201102 writes “A mere 20,000 Twitter users steal almost half of the spotlight on Twitter, which now ropes in a billion tweets every week. That means only 0.05% of the social network’s user base attracts attention, according to a new Yahoo Research study. From the article: [...]

Read @DameElizabeth’s final Tweets Elizabeth Taylor or @DameElizabeth was very active on Twitter, with more than 300,000 followers at the time of her death. Read more on ABC 15 Phoenix

Leading article: The tweets that became a roar Five years ago, a mention of the words “retweet”, “Tweeps” and “hashtag” would have drawn blank expressions. But today those words would cause tens of millions of faces around the world to light up in recognition. The reason is, of course, Twitter. The jargon of the micro-blogging [...]

Tweeting in Japan: The Good, the Bad, and the Panicked Twitter and other social networks have, of course, been remarkable tools during past uprisings and disasters. But do they have a truth problem? As today brings further news of a potential nuclear disaster following the earthquake in Japan, Twitter has become an echo chamber for [...]

George tweets to quit the cigs George Michael has turned to Twitter to quit smoking. The singer told Smooth Radio’s Mark Goodier that he started smoking again after being sent to prison. Read more on Louth Leader

Now, a book on tweets posted during Egyptian revolution Microblogging site Twitter became the mouthpiece of many Egyptians during the recent mass uprising in the country and now a selection of key tweets and photos posted during the revolution are being made into a book. Read more on The Hindu