On a Monday night earlier this month, the projection screen hanging on the wall of a bowling alley in Brooklyn's bar-heavy Williamsburg neighborhood was displaying neither strikes nor scores, but colu

Twitter users may value brevity in their messages, but that doesn't mean they don't think about the social implications of language.

Hitwise, an Internet traffic monitoring firm, reported today that tweets - the 140-character short posts by Twitter users - spiked last week likely due to coverage of the New York plane crash.

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