UK's oldest Tweeter Ivy Bean dies at 104

Britain's oldest Tweeter has died in her sleep at the age of 104, staff at her care home have said.

Ivy Bean, from Bradford, acquired over 56,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging service.

Pat Wright, manager of Hillside Manor where Ms Ivy Bean lived, broke the news on her Twitter feed.

Ms Ivy Bean joined the site in 2008, one year after she registered on Facebook. She soon attracted attention for being the oldest "tweeter".

Her celebrity followers included singer Peter Andre, Chris Evans and former prime minister's wife Sarah Brown.

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China Accuses U.S. of Using Facebook, YouTube to Sow Unrest

A Chinese government-backed think tank has accused the U.S. and other Western governments of using social networking sites like Facebook to spur with political unrest and called for stepped-up scrutiny of the wildly popular sites.

As China's online population is the world's largest — surges past the 400 million mark, its Communist government is growing increasingly sensitive to any online threats to its authority. Although Beijing operates an extensive system of monitoring and censorship to block material deemed subversive, the Internet is still the most open and lively forum for to discussion in a society where traditional media are controlled by the state.

Twitter, for instance, has emerged as a gathering place for the dissidents and other politically minded Chinese wanting to voice their complaints and share information. Though the government routinely bans sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, technologically savvy users can easily jump with China's "Great Firewall" with proxy servers or other alternatives.

According to the report released on this week by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the sites also harbor an external threat. Social networking sites threaten state security because the U.S. and other Western countries are using them to foment the instability, said the report, titled "Development of China's New Media."

"We must pay attention to the potential risks and threats to state security as the popularity of the social networking sites continues to grow," the report said. "We must immediately step up supervision of social networking sites."

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Calif. Mother Finds Abducted Daughter on Facebook

Prince Sagala searched for her son and daughter for more than 15 years, fearing she had lost them forever to the estranged husband who took them to his native Mexico.

Then one day, she just typed her child's name into Facebook on a library computer, and suddenly found herself exchanging messages with a young woman who said she was her daughter in what experts say was a rare online success in the search for missing kids online.

But the exchange wasn't a happy in reunion.

"She thought It was a stranger woman," Sagala said, with hurt and frustration in her voice. "I wrote back and she deleted it. Then, she disappeared."

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