Twitter was Interrupted by 300,000 Kanye West Twitts

Twitter community was not able to disregard the recent act of Kane West on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday when he made a full of himself jumping on stage when Taylor Swift was giving her speech as she accepted the Best Female Video award. While Swift, was speechless for a while, Twitter responded with almost 300,000 twits.

According to Trendrr, which tracks buzz on Twitter, there were a total of 293,024 tweets in the hour immediately following West’s outburst. Just a reminder. West embarrassed himself by grabbing Swift's mic during her speech. West commented that Beancey should have been the winner of this award. If only Mr. West would have a little more patience he would be probably satisfied when Beyonce was indeed announced as a winner of Video of the Year award.
The reaction to Kenye’s wired act was very interesting. Pink on her Twitter account stated: “Kanye west is the biggest piece of shit on earth. Quote me.” I assuming that the rest of 300, 000 twits were similar nature.

In case if you did not see what happened here is the clip

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Is Facebook Lite a Twitter killer?

Facebook introduced it is new “Lite” version. The initial prototype was intended for the countries with a limited access to high-speed internet access. However, the new design was so attractive and promising it stayed here in the US and now available to all current Facebook users.

First it was MySpace which introduced social network to the world. Then Facebook with its genius concept delivering friends updates. Then it became a little overwhelming for some people. And then Twitter come along. What’s now?

Facebook has enormous user base and with Lite version there is no need to have a Twitter account if you have one on Facebook. The Lite version appears to be much cleaner and simpler. It appears, at a quick glance, to be a better site for Facebook newbies or for anyone who finds the current site overwhelming or noisy.

Facebook Lite has couple of visual changes, compare to Facebook Classic. Most of the navigation and info page that was on the left side including apps are now gone. The input box is replaced by buttons (Write, Post Photos, Post Video) that pop down the actual input forms only when needed.

All pages on the site seem to be affected. They are simpler, easier to read, and faster. They load faster, partly due to what appears to be HTML optimization at Facebook…. Well I don’t want to spoil it for you log in and look for yourself… Its lite.facebook.com
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