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Many gay and lesbian books on Amazon.com were incorrectly being flagged as adult due to a cataloging error which made the books hard to find in searches.
Twitters got angry about the issue and started a discussion called #AmazonFail. Thousands of people were angry that gay-themed books had disappeared from Amazon’s sales rankings and search algorithms. The number of Tweets on that easter sunday afternoon that had the term “AmazonFail” surpassed even those with the words “Easter” or “Jesus.”
This led Amazon.com to quickly fix the cataloging error.
Read more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14amazon.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes
http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166384.asp?from=blog_last3
Read the discussion here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23AmazonFail
A man accused of raping a university student was cleared because of the mobile phone footage showing the woman ‘actively’ having sex with him. The jurors voted to acquit the man, who’d been charged with four counts of rape, including two of rape by oral penetration.
Read more here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166466/Man-cleared-rape-court-shown-phone-footage-woman-actively-taking-sex.html
Chris Ogle (29) from Whangerei, New Zealand has stumbled across the sensitive military details of U.S. military personnel after purchasing a secondhand MP3 player in Oklahoma, USA. He discovered around 60 sensitive military files dating from 2005 on the used music player. The files were clearly marked as ’secret’ and contained the phone numbers of numerous soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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A guy at the US Airways crash took a picture of the Airplane and used Twitter to stream it to the Internet. Here is his account of the incident:
http://twitpic.com/135xa - There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy. 12:36 PM Jan 15th from TwitPic
