Obama responds to Twitter users from the White House

The U.S. president, Barack Obama responded Wednesday to questions from Twitter users. Obama has done from the East Room of the White House, under the watchful eyes of some users choose to attend as an audience. The event has been called Townhall Inspired by encounters between politicians and citizens in municipalities, and has eased one of the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.

Users of the social network of 140 characters have previously been able to ask the U.S. president using the hashtag # askobama. The White House (@ whitehouse) announced the news on Twitter a few weeks ago and suggested users to send their questions about the economy and employment.

Israel calls Apple to remove from iTunes an application invoking intifada

Jerusalem .- An Israeli minister has asked Apple to remove from its iTunes store an application in Arabic calling for the Palestinian people to an uprising. In a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein said that the 'Third Intifada- a reference to a future Palestinian uprising - conveys information about the protests, some violent, planned against Israel.

Bin Laden's death hits record on social networking

MADRID (Portaltic / EP) .- The death of Osama Bin Laden to American hands has been one of the biggest phenomena experienced in the recent history of social networking. Twitter posted a major peak messages per second and many were those who heard the news on social networks. Also jerked or Instagram FourSquare business.

According to research conducted by Mashable among 20,000 of its readers, Twitter (31%) and Facebook (20%) accounted for more than half of the channels of information from which nurtured its users to learn the death of terrorist. The speed with which news and comments were issued and the volume of these involved the death of Bin Laden became one of the most followed on Twitter history.