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...your early years, your 401(k)'s growth is driven mostly by contributions. You control your own destiny. But the longer you hold a 401(k), the more market-exposed it becomes. It's a twist that breaks the most basic rule of financial planning. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...several Twitterers suspect that the Nobel Prize may hinder Obama from doing just that by galvanizing his opponents at home and ratcheting up the unrealistic expectations he's been trying to downplay since he entered the White House. Here's @alexevansuk again: "I can hardly wait for reactions on US conservative blogs." Another Twitter regular says, "If the Nobel Committee deliberately set out to sabotage Obama, they couldn't have done it better." Actually, that was me. I'm sure many others will have made much the same point by now. Twitter often reminds users how many different viewpoints there...
...Never seen Twitter so united in sarcasm as over the Nobel announcement." With that tweet - which at a mere 59 characters is terse even by Twitter's Procrustean standards - Alex Evans, a.k.a. @alexevansuk, a nonresident fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, sums up the prevailing sentiment on the microblogging website...
...Twitter is a kind of global watercooler, the place to go if you want an instant take on anything from who should win American Idol to why on earth NASA aims to crash a probe into the moon, then the verdict is in. Within minutes of President Barack Obama's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win, the Twitterverse had greeted the news with a resounding raspberry. "What are the reasons for Obama to get Nobel Peace Prize?????" asked @ludmila_kh incredulously, if not grammatically. (See pictures of Obama overseas...
...joke repeated - or, in Twitter parlance, RTd - in numerous tweets suggests one possible interpretation of the Nobel Committee's haste to garland the new laureate: " 'Did you hear Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?' Answer: 'What for? For not being George W. Bush.' " @Fulmonster sees method in the Nobel madness, wondering, "Are the Norwegian Nobel Committee trying to force President Obama to 'be good'?" @chirdeep follows a similar train of thought: "So does this mean that the pressure is on for Obama to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan...