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China had already restricted access to many foreign sites including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube citing a need to maintain social stability. China's internet censorship system known as "the  Great Firewall of China " intensified briefly today when all foreign websites  blocked as users were unable to access them.  Observers speculated that the system could be being upgraded to further tighten the regime's control over foreign sites.  Users in  Beijing ,  Shanghai  and elsewhere in China reported that they were unable to access any foreign sites at all, The Daily Mail reports.  China had already restricted access to many foreign sites including  Twitter , Facebook ,  YouTube   citing a need to maintain social stability.  The change in the service came as China faced renewed attack from Western 'hacktivists' for its restrictive  internet policies  and human rights violations.  Hacker group Anonymous ...

Twitter search seems fairly basic, which often leads to people using 3rd party Twitter tools for searching. Most people don’t realize it, but Twitter some handy search command abilities: Basic Twitter Search Commands (no surprises here): Multi-word queries: if you search multiple words, Twitter’s default search will search tweets containing both (or all words). Example: big doggy would find tweets that contain both “big” and “doggy”, but not necessarily the words paired together. Exact match queries: if you use quotes, you can limit tweet searches to exact matches. Example: “big doggy” would find tweets that contain the exact phrase “big doggy”. OR queries: if you are looking for two related or interchangable words, OR queries work well. Example: dog OR doggy would find tweets that contain either words. Hash Tag queries: Hash tags used to be one of the only methods of putting a stamp on your tweet to help those searching in Twitter, but they not as critical these...