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Successful Twitter marketers need to prepare in advance and be spontaneous, according to Twitter Dublin's Managing Director

Following examples set by other European countries, the Irish Government & Police is increasingly asking Google to delete users' data..

As more governments request access to Twitter's data the company warns that such requests are having "a serious chilling effect on free expression."

Google has asked international governments to be more open with how they use legal means to get access to users' information. The call comes as Google releases its latest Transparency Report, which shows a steady increase in governments' requests for users' data.

Twitter's email recommendations go near real-time by recommending who you should follow based on who you followed in the past few hours.

What data have international governments asked Google for access to or removal of - let's have a look.

Google has warned that "Government surveillance is on the rise" in its latest Transparency Report which shows a dramatic increase in governments' request for access and removal of users' data.

On the news sites the 2012 US Presidential Election has become a battle of the interactive maps - here are some of the best and most informative.

A small changes to Twitter's Robots.txt file might mean that we're going to see more tweets in Google and Bing search results

Want to know what links are garnering the most attention on the web right now? With bitly's new graduated lab experiment, Realtime, now you can.

Google has, for the first time, revealed how the type and number of file sharing websites companies such as Microsoft and NBC Universal ask to be removed

Find out how to create Twitter RSS feeds for the latest video content being shared on the social network from sites like YouTube and Vimeo.

Find out how to search Twitter for images and generate RSS feeds for the latest tweeted images or photos from specific users or keywords.

Researchers in the UK believe they may be able to use Twitter, Facebook, and other real-time social media to predict future events, such as the outbreak of epidemics.

Can Proliphiq's qualitative social media monitoring app take the market from under Klout?

eircom releases a nifty app for the 2011 Spider Awards with real-time updates

Proliphiq is a smart and ingenious app that has the potential to make your social media monitoring and social searching more productive and more fun

Google Transparency Report, the search giant's server analysis tool has added realtime analytics and added data about local outages, the company has announced. Google Transparency Report is Google's public service site in which the company shows how it interacts with government bodies and manages user access to the company's services.

Under MediaSift’s DataSift brand the freemium service will allow users to search and filter Twitter’s full firehose of content according to over 40 pieces of metadata contained in each tweet. The company will also aggregate and analyse Twitter content according to user sentiment, user influence, reach and text analysis.

According to Google’s Realtime search results the greatest number of tweets about Earth Hour from Irish users came at exactly 8:30pm, just when the event started in Ireland. It then took another hour before the massive spike of #earthhour tweets subsided.