Twitter Bids its First Pope Farewell as Benedict XVI Resigns (The Daily Dot)
After the Vatican’s surprise announcement this morning that Pope Benedict XVI will be resigning at the end of the month, Twitter is reacting predictably: with terrible puns. It’s a fitting farewell to the first pope to join the microblogging site.
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When Larry Page told Googlers that he was tying their bonuses to their abilities in social, it lit a fire under their collective behinds, and got the teams working hand in hand to get Google users able to browse the web hand in hand. That’s why we’ve seen so many updates lately. Yesterday, Google made another update, by allowing users to easily manage their contacts and filters right from Gmail and Contacts.
Sure enough, the topical question changed to whether Circles was a trumped-up story or ReadWriteWeb simply jumped the gun. TechCrunch speculated that Circles is a true and will be introduced over a period of time, more accurately, than all at once.
