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Bloomberg Game Changers to Profile Twitter Co-Founders

Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone will be profiled on Bloomberg Game Changers Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.

The episode will also feature interviews with Twitter chairman Dorsey, Floodgate founder and managing partner Mike Maples, O’Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly, GigaOM founder Om Malik, Blogger.com co-founder Meg Hourihan, Wired.com writer Ryan Singel, and Wedbush Securities vice president of equity research, social media and e-commerce Lou Kerner.

New Media Index: Tucson Shooting Dominates Blogs; Google Tops Tight Twitter List

The Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., dominated news links shared by bloggers, while new offerings from Google accounted for the most-Tweeted news links, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Jan. 10-14.

The tragedy in Tucson accounted for 57 percent of news links shared via blogs, and it was followed by: the violence in Zimbabwe blamed on followers of President Robert Mugabe, at 15 percent; video of a BBC interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at 10 percent; soccer superstar David Beckham and supermodel wife Victoria Beckham expecting their fourth child, at 5 percent; and an interactive Web page from the Los Angeles Times allowing users to try to balance California’s state budget, at 3 percent.

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