Majority Of Indians Use Twitter For news

Majority Of Indians Use Twitter For news: Twitter may have gained immense popularity as a microblogging website but in India majority use it as a source for news. A survey by a technology site says about 16% of Indian users regularly ‘tweet’ to get news updates.

Majority Of Indians Use Twitter For news:Twitter may have gained immense popularity as a microblogging website but in India majority use it as a source for news.

A survey by a technology site says about 16% of Indian users regularly ‘tweet’ to get news updates.

While 11% use it to stay in touch with their friends, 10% use the website for research purpose, according to the survey.

The social networking site, launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, came into prominence in the country during the 26/11 attacks when eyewitnesses sent an estimated 80 ‘tweets’ every five seconds, helping in compiling a list of the dead and injured.

Analysts attribute the recent surge in its popularity in India to the controversial ‘cattle class’ tweet by Union minister Shashi Tharoor, who is an active Twitter user with nearly 3 lakh followers, arguably the largest in the country.

With its growing popularity, the website is now giving a tough competition to other networking sites like Google’s Orkut and California-based Facebook, which was launched six years ago.

While Facebook has around 8 million users and Orkut has around 16 million, Twitter has 1.4 million users in India, the third largest after Germany and the US.

Twitter’s global membership has crossed the five-billion mark. Facebook, the leading networking site at present, has an estimated 300 million users across the world, while Orkut has only 51 million.

According to a Pew Internet and American Lifestyle study, almost one in every five US citizens use the free microblogging website that asks a simple question “What are you doing?”

“The key to its popularity lies with its ability to send and receive status updates via text messages, which sets it apart,” says Tejeswar Rao, IT consultant with Abu Dhabi-based software firm Vision Capital.continue

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Fort Hood Shooting Cnn,Fort Hood Shooting: Malik Nadal Hasan , FT Hood Texas shooting and Fort Hood shooting cnn . The largest Army base in the world is under lockdown after authorities reported a third shooter in Texas mass shooting

Fort Hood Shooting Cnn,Fort Hood Shooting:Malik Nadal Hasan,FT Hood Texas shooting and Fort Hood shooting cnn. The largest Army base in the world is under lockdown after authorities reported a third shooter in Texas mass shooting. A third gunman has opened fire on police officials who have surrounded multiple buildings at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, officials reported Thursday.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials are en route to the scene at Fort Hood. The massive Texas base houses 55,000 military personnel. At least seven people are dead and 12 are injured.

One alleged gunman is in custody, and a second is at large on the Fort Hood base. Media outlets reported the victims and gunmen are all military personnel. The White House said President Barack Obama is monitoring the situation.

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Fort Hood Shooting updates, SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Sami Ibrahim): Fort Hood Shooting updates At least one American soldier went on a shooting rampage Thursday in a sprawling Texas military base killing 11 people and wounding 31 others before being gunned down, army officials said.

Two other soldiers were arrested after the shooting spree and were being held as suspects, said Lieutenant General Bob Cone, commander at Fort Hood, the largest US military base in the world.

The soldier, identified as Major Hassan Malik, opened fire with two handguns in a busy processing center where troops go before being deployed on overseas missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cone told reporters the motive for the attack remained unclear.

“We don’t know that right now. Again, this is all under investigation,” he stressed; adding he believed the incident was now over.

US President Barack Obama, who had been kept informed of the shooting as the drama was tracked in the White House situation room, denounced the attack as “an horrific outburst of violence.”

“My immediate thoughts and prayers are with the wounded and with the families of the fallen,” Obama said.

“It’s difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on American soil.”

Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said Malik was about to be deployed to Iraq.

“I am shocked and saddened by today’s outburst of violence at Fort Hood that has cost seven of our brave service members their lives and has gravely injured others. My heart goes out to their loved ones,” she said.

General Cone confirmed that 12 people were dead including the shooter.

“At approximately 1:30 today, a shooter entered what we call the soldier readiness facility, where soldiers getting ready to deploy go for check ups and treatment. A shooter opened fire. That person was killed. As I said, the shooter was killed. He was a soldier,” Cone said.

Cone added that after a manhunt on the sprawling base in Killeen they had “apprehended two additional soldiers who are suspects, and I would go into the point that there were eyewitness accounts that there may have been more than one shooter.”

He said he had been stunned by the incident, adding “soldiers and family members and many of the great civilians that work here are absolutely devastated.

“I want to express my condolences to the soldiers, the families, and the civilians in this great community in central Texas. This is a tragedy, but we will work through it.”

Fort Hood has been working to rehabilitate many soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, local congressman John Carter told sources.

Fort Hood is the headquarters of the Army 3rd Corps, the 4th Infantry Division and the 1st Cavalry Division.

All those units have seen extensive duty in Iraq.

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Fort Hood Shooting, ft hood, ft. hood was first posted on November 6, 2009 at 10:00 am.

Fort Hood Shootings ‘Horrific’: Barack Obama

WASHINGTON: Fort Hood Shootings ‘Horrific’: Barack Obama, US President Barack Obama called a shooting attack at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday a “horrific outburst of violence.”

Speaking in Washington, Obama said details of the incident were still unclear.

“What we do know is that a number of American soldiers have been killed. And even more have been wounded in a horrific outburst of violence,” he said.

At least 12 people were killed and 31 wounded at the military facility after up to three gunmans opened fire, military officials said.

Obama offered his “thoughts and prayers” to the families of the victims.

“These are men and women who have made the selfless and courageous decision to risk, and at times give, their lives to protect the rest of us on a daily basis,” he said.

“It’s difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on American soil.”

Obama said he had spoken to both Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and would receive “a constant stream of updates.”

Information about the perpetrators of the attack and their motives remained unclear but Obama pledged: “We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident.”

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Fort Hood Shootings ‘Horrific’: Barack Obama was first posted on November 6, 2009 at 7:44 am.

Twelve Dead, 31 Wounded in Texas Military Base Shooting

Twelve Dead, 31 Wounded in Texas Military Base Shooting, At least one American soldier went on a shooting rampage Thursday in a sprawling Texas military base killing 11 people and wounding 31 others before being gunned down, army officials said.

Two other soldiers were arrested after the shooting spree and were being held as suspects, said Lieutenant General Bob Cone, commander at Fort Hood, the largest US military base in the world.

The soldier, identified as Major Hassan Malik, opened fire with two handguns in a busy processing center where troops go before being deployed on overseas missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cone told reporters the motive for the attack remained unclear.

“We don’t know that right now. Again, this is all under investigation,” he stressed; adding he believed the incident was now over.

US President Barack Obama, who had been kept informed of the shooting as the drama was tracked in the White House situation room, denounced the attack as “an horrific outburst of violence.”

“My immediate thoughts and prayers are with the wounded and with the families of the fallen,” Obama said.

“It’s difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on American soil.”

Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said Malik was about to be deployed to Iraq.

“I am shocked and saddened by today’s outburst of violence at Fort Hood that has cost seven of our brave service members their lives and has gravely injured others. My heart goes out to their loved ones,” she said.

General Cone confirmed that 12 people were dead including the shooter.

“At approximately 1:30 today, a shooter entered what we call the soldier readiness facility, where soldiers getting ready to deploy go for check ups and treatment. A shooter opened fire. That person was killed. As I said, the shooter was killed. He was a soldier,” Cone said.

Cone added that after a manhunt on the sprawling base in Killeen they had “apprehended two additional soldiers who are suspects, and I would go into the point that there were eyewitness accounts that there may have been more than one shooter.”

He said he had been stunned by the incident, adding “soldiers and family members and many of the great civilians that work here are absolutely devastated.

“I want to express my condolences to the soldiers, the families, and the civilians in this great community in central Texas. This is a tragedy, but we will work through it.”

Fort Hood has been working to rehabilitate many soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, local congressman John Carter told sources.

Fort Hood is the headquarters of the Army 3rd Corps, the 4th Infantry Division and the 1st Cavalry Division.

All those units have seen extensive duty in Iraq.

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Twelve Dead, 31 Wounded in Texas Military Base Shooting was first posted on November 6, 2009 at 7:07 am.