It’s no secret that certain countries have different views over freedom of expression on the internet, but this hasn’t stopped Twitter’s attempt to keep its service running in as many places as possible. In its latest blog post, the microblogging service announced that it’ll begin “to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country” when required, in order to keep said content available to all users elsewhere (as opposed to blocking it globally).

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Twitter to begin ‘reactively’ censoring tweets in specific countries, still no love for China

Posted by randfish Earlier tonight, I sent out the following tweet: Have any questions about search, social, content, conversion or analytics you want answered?

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If you missed it, RIM attempted to interrupt the Giants vs. 49ers matchup last night by dropping a wee bit of news: it’s co-CEOs are gone , and taking the solo CEO badge is former COO Thorsten Heins.

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RIM’s Thorsten Heins formally introduced: liveblogging the media call

Summify is a beloved little news-curation platform that works out (based on your reading habits and those of your friends) what news is most relevant to you. Yesterday the Vancouver-based start-up announced that it had been snapped up by Twitter and will commence shutting down in the next week. Fortunately, the team is relocating down to the micro-blogging site’s San Francisco base, ostensibly to bake the service into forthcoming variations of the site — which might be enough to stop us complaining about losing our retweets panel.

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Twitter buys Summify, helps you automatically turn off the noise

Well, it was only a matter of time.

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RedPad brings Chinese patriotism to Android, costs each comrade just $1,590

Posted by randfish It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we've grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post.

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Frank Marquardt is director of content strategy at The Barbarian Group , a digital services and creation company. Find him on Twitter @tralition . Traditional advertising worked through distraction — an interruption to our sitcom, a page between magazine articles, a banner teasing our attention at the top of a webpage

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Erin Everhart is the director of web and social media marketing at 352 Media Group, a digital marketing agency that also provides web and mobile app development . Connect with her on Twitter @erinever . In what could be hailed as the update that sparked an all-out Internet riot, Google has launched “ Search, plus your World ,” which pours personal social results into your public search listings.

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Anne Buehner is the associate social media strategist at Red Door Interactive , a strategic partner dedicated to ensuring businesses acquire, convert, retain and engage their customers wherever they are. Email her at abuehner@reddoor.biz. Toasting the new year is not what it used to be

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What were the hottest topics among techies on Twitter during the first official day of CES 2012 on Tuesday? OLED display technology has had people buzzing about its potential for HDTVs, while ultrabook laptops and tablet devices are also hot

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Charting the CES Chatter, Wednesday Edition [INFOGRAPHIC]