Can you believe that Kim Kardashian actually gets paid $10,000 for a single tweet?

It's the shocking business of celebrity tweets revealed in the new issue of New York Magazine.

And Kardashian isn't even the highest paid star.

Believe it or not, Charlie Sheen earned around $50,000 per tweet during his notorious meltdown in 2011.

Amy Odell, a senior writer at New York Magazine told INSIDE EDITION, "The more Twitter followers a celebrity has, the more money they can make from an endorsement deal. You look at someone like Kim Kardashian, she has almost 13 million followers. Or Charlie Sheen, he may be kind of nuts, but he has over six million followers and that is very valuable for these companies looking for celebrities to endorse their products."

Another top earner on Twitter is Snoop Dogg, who has 6.2 million followers and gets $8,000 per tweet. A star like Paula Abdul, who has 2.2 million followers, earns around $5,000 per tweet.

So, are they worth it?

Celebs do get results. When Sheen tweeted about the website internships.com, it actually got 450,000 hits in 48 hours.

Surprisingly, the stars don't even write the tweets themselves.

"Often it's not celebrities that are writing their own tweets, just like celbrities don't really write their own books. There are ghost writers involved who will do a lot of the tweet writing," says Odell.

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Bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America said Friday they were afraid that new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression.

Thursday's announcement that Twitter had refined its technology to censor messages on a country-by-country basis raised fears that the company's commitment to free speech may be weakening. Twitter is trying to broaden its audience and make more money by expanding around the globe.

"I'm afraid it's a slippery slope of censorship," said social media commentator Jeff Jarvis, interviewed at a gathering of business and government leaders in Davos, Switzerland.

"I understand why Twitter is doing this - they want to be able to enter more countries and deal with the local laws. But, as Google learned in China, when you become the agent of the censor, there are problems there," he added.

Egyptian activist Mahmoud Salem, who tweets and blogs under the name "Sandmonkey," questioned in a tweet whether Twitter "is selling us out."

Twitter sees the censorship tool as a way to ensure individual messages, or tweets, remain available to as many people as possible while it navigates a gauntlet of different laws around the world.

Before, when Twitter erased a tweet it disappeared throughout the world. Now, a tweet containing content breaking a law in one country can be taken down there and still be seen elsewhere.

Twitter will post a censorship notice whenever a tweet is removed. That's similar to what Internet search leader Google Inc. has been doing for years when a law in a country where its service operates requires a search result to be removed.

Like Google, Twitter also plans to the share the removal requests it receives from governments, companies and individuals at the chillingeffects.org website.

The similarity to Google's policy isn't coincidental. Twitter's general counsel is Alexander Macgillivray, who helped Google draw up its censorship policies while he was working at that company.

"One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user's voice," Twitter wrote in a blog post. "We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can't. The tweets must continue to flow."

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Uchunguzi mpya unasema raia wa Afrika Kusini na Kenya kuwa ndiyo watumiaji wakubwa na wengi wa mtandao wa kijamii wa Twitter na kwamba hivi sasa mtandao huo wa kijamii unakua haraka na kuwa nyenzo kubwa ya mawasiliano kwenye bara hilo.

Kwa mujibu wa Shirika la Utangazaji la Sauti ya America, (Voice of America - VOA) wachunguzi wametafiti zaidi ya tweet milioni 11.5 kutoka maeneo fulani ya Afrika katika miezi mitatu iliyopita ya mwaka 2011 na wamegundua Afrika Kusini imetuma zaidi ya tweet milioni 5, ikiwa ni mara mbili zaidi ya watu katika nchi nyingine. Kenya ilikuwa ya pili ikiwa na karibu tweet milioni 2.5, ikifuatiwa na Nigeria, Misri na Morocco.

Katika uchunguzi huo iligundulika kuwa asilimia 80 ya wale washiriki wa utafiti huo walitumia twitter kuwasiliana na marafiki zao, karibu 70% walitumia kupata habari na watu zaidi kidogo ya 20% walitumia mtandao huo kujitafutia kazi.

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via SundayShomari.com

Mtandao maarufu wa kijamii wa Facebook umemponza msanii mahiri wa muziki wa Injili nchini Tanzania, Flora Mbasha, baada ya mtu asiyefahamika ambaye ni shabiki wake kugandisha picha chafu za ngono kwenye ukurasa wake ambayo iliibuka mijadala na kushangaza wengi wiki iliyopita. 

Mbasha aliyetamba na nyimbo kama 'Adui', 'Usife Moyo', 'Sauti ya Mnyonge' aliibuka kwenye mtandao huo na kutoa ufafanuzi. 

"Bwana Yesu asifiwe wapendwa, naomba niwatake radhi kwa picha ambayo ilikuwa imetupiwa kwenye ukurasa wangu pia niwashukuru wote ambao mmenipigia simu kunieleza kinachoendelea kwenye Facebook yangu, pia nawashukuru wote mlionielekeza jinsi ya kuifuta maana nilijaribu nikashindwa. 

"Lakini pia nimuombe anayetupia picha kama hizi kwenye ukurasa wangu aache upesi la sivyo nitaifunga mtu yeyote asitupie vitu vyake ingawa haikuwa nia yangu kwani hii ni kwa ajili ya Injili, watumishi wa Mungu kukutana kuzungumzia habari za Mungu na marafiki mbalimbali kuelimishana kuhusu Injili na mambo yote yenye maadili na sio jambo lisilompendeza Mungu. 

"Kwa upande wangu nimekwazika sana kwani sikutegemea kama mtu mwenye akili timamu angefanya hivyo, ila nimemsamehe. Nia yangu ni nzuri sana, nataka watu tujadili mambo ya Mungu, tushauriane na hasa kutokana na huduma ya uimbaji niliyo nayo nahitaji sana ushauri wenu na mawazo. 

"Pia niwashirikishe mambo mbalimbali kuhusu maisha yangu binafsi pamoja na huduma, ili kwa pamoja tuonyane na tusaidiane pamoja na kuombeana. Nawapenda sana wote na amani ya Yesu Kristo iwe nanyi." 

Chanzo cha taarifa: blogu ya FloraMbasha ikilinukuu Gazeti la Mwanaspoti la Januari 17, 2012  

Ya kuzingatia...

Kwa wanaotumia mitandao ya kijamii kama vile Facebook ka Twitter, kila mara mtu anapaswa kupitia 'settings' kuona ikiwa zipo kadiri ambavyo angependa zionekane kwa watu anaohusiana nao kwenye mitandao hiyo na jamii nzima kwa ujumla. 

Mara kadhaa mambo ambayo hayakuidhinishwa na wahusika wenye kurasa yametokea na kuacha makovu. Wamiliki wa tovuti hizi hufanya marekebisho mara kwa mara na bila kutuma ujumbe wowote kwa watumiaji wao kuwafahamisha kuhusu mabadiliko hayo. 

Iwapo mtu hatakuwa mwangalifu kuchunguza mabadiliko hayo, ni rahisi sana kwa mtu mwenye nia mbaya kutumia mwanya huo kufanya atakacho, hasa ikizingatiwa uwezo bwerere uliopo wa kuweza kufungua akaunti ya uongo kisha kuomba urafiki na mtu, mwenye kuombwa urafiki akiwa ni kati ya wale wanaokubali mtu yeyote kwa nia njema hata kama hamfahamu kwa kuona haya kuongekana 'mbaya', ni rahisi sana kukubali wenye nia mbovu ambao wameomba urafiki kwa nia iliyojificha ya kumchafua mtu. 

Kuwa makini! 

Now you can create twitter polls and share with your twitter followers via Pollowers, a website that's dedicated into helping you accomplish the task.

Here is how you do it:

1. Login to pollowers.com with your Twitter account
2. Create and a poll
3. Send and let your followers answer through Twitter
4. See the results in real time and share with others

While going through my G+, I noticed this message under the Buzz tab, and thought I should share it "as is", for Goole Buzz users who might not have see it as yet so that they can choose what to do with their posts:

Google Buzz is going away, but your posts are yours to keep

In a few weeks we'll be retiring Google Buzz. At that time you won't be able to create any new posts, but your existing content will remain accessible in two important ways:

1. You can view it on your Google profile
2. You can download it using Google Takeout

G++ is a browser extension (add-on / plugin) for Firefox and Chrome that turns Google+ into an integrated social media platform by incorporating feeds, posting capabilities, comments, likes, retweets, and other features from Facebook and Twitter right in into Google+.

• FaceBook & Twitter feed in your G+ Stream! 
  
• Post statuses to Facebook & Twitter directly from G+! 
  
• Like, Comment, Post to Facebook! 
  
• Twitter - Tweet & Retweet in G+! 
  

How to:

1. Click here to download G++
   
2. Install into your computer
   
3. Click on the check box next to facebook and/or twitter (will take you to the usual verification process)
   
4. Try it out!
   

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