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...need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal...
...social network, Twitter revolves around the principle of followers. When you choose to follow another Twitter user, that user's tweets appear in reverse chronological order on your main Twitter page. If you follow 20 people, you'll see a mix of tweets scrolling down the page: breakfast-cereal updates, interesting new links, music recommendations, even musings on the future of education. Some celebrity Twitterers - most famously Ashton Kutcher - have crossed the million-follower mark, effectively giving them a broadcast-size audience. The average Twitter profile seems to be somewhere in the dozens: a collage of friends, colleagues...
...than they were a year ago. For example, last year 58% of the survey's respondents said they were cutting back on purchases of frozen food. Now only 34% said they were spending less on those items. Last year, 41% of consumers said they were cutting back on cereal. That figure has now dipped to 26%. (See pictures of the world's longest yard sale...
...future computer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, who would go on to found Apple Computer.) One infamous phreak, John Draper, became known as Captain Crunch after discovering in 1972 that he could fool AT&T's network with the tone from a plastic whistle distributed with the breakfast cereal. Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick became a top target for the FBI for breaking into academic and corporate computer systems and causing millions of dollars in damage; after years eluding capture, he spent half a decade behind bars in the 1990s and was ordered to stay away from computers for three...
...Study Counsel, and Eating Concerns Hotline Outreach. This body continued to review the labeling decision and eventually decided to provide a permanent, single-page printout of nutrition information at all dining stations where the core items remain constant—such as the salad bar, deli, bread box, and cereal dispensers...