Additionally, the total number of mobile micro blog users stood at close to 170 million, as of June 2012.

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Special thanks to Joseph Webber for all his hard work on the blog, micro-blog and media site for the uploading!

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The micro-blog service is now available in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.

BBC: Twitter page in Farsi

They can mentor on an ambient level, openly broadcasting their ideas, knowledge and help for mentees or anyone to consider, by sharing their thoughts on micro-blog systems, and they can receive feedback the same way.

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All of a sudden, developers were not just limited to micro-blog posts and private messages ( added in December), but any kind of app that relied on file storage like photo sharing, group collaboration as well as personal data organization.

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Twitter posted a blog on their website saying the micro-blogging service had been restored an hour and a quarter after the hack was first noticed.

BBC: Pro-Iranian hackers hit Twitter and opposition websites

Writing for Mashable, a blog that covers online social media, Stan Schroeder says the latest Twitter breach proves the micro-blogging site needs to address nagging security flaws.

CNN: Twitter hack raises questions about 'cloud computing'