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Micro-blogging site Twitter is planning to launch a built-in photo sharing feature which will put the future of twitter apps like Twitpics and Yfrogs in limbo and will place its third-party developers in a quandary as to which apps to write for Twitter.

Twitter is said to be in talks to acquire Internet advertising firm Adgrok, a move that could boost the microblogging site's products such as promoted tweets and promoted trends.

Online media is rife with rumors of Twitter launching its own photosharing service with Techcrunch reporting first and AllThingsD posting a confirmation on its website. Even though Twitter refused to comment on the issue, rumors are pointing in the right direction, particularly when examined under the light of the business decisions Twitter has been announcing recently.

The website of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has been hacked and hackers have also posted a hoax story claiming that rapper Tupac Shakur was still alive and living in New Zealand.

If Twitter goes ahead and launches its photo sharing service, it will get into the core of Facebook's advantages, and soon the existing rivalry between 'likes' and 'tweets' can assume another dimension. It remains to be seen when Twitter launches this long overdue service and, whether this will protect the microblogging site against the marauding onslaught of Facebook.

PBS website was hacked and login and password information have been posted with fake news that says murdered rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls are alive in New Zealand on Sunday after it televised its Frontline: Wikisecrets - a recent documentary on Wikileaks.

With the expanding list of social networks and new competitors, it is hard not to know about Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. According to Experian Hitwise and SocialBaker statistics, Facebook has over 50% of the social media market. The rest is split up among other major sites, mostly Youtube, MySpace, Yahoo, and Twitter. Though it seems that everyone has flocked to these sites, there are still an number of international social networks that you may not have known about which captures a larg...

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The Public Broadcasting Service web site was defaced over the weekend with the hackers posting fake stories about Tupac Shakur being alive and in New Zealand.

Close on the heels of Lockheed Martin admitting that it had been hacked, it has emerged that the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has been hacked and login and password information pertaining to employees as well as outside users of the site have been compromised.

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