Access to Twitter has been available until now only in English and Japanese. But this week, the microblogging network launched a Spanish version that was translated from English by volunteer collaborators, EFE and CNET explain. read more »

To write; to tell a story. That is, in part, journalism and literature. The debate about their affinities and differences is longstanding. Now, in the digital environment, this debate seems to become more radical. While new literary projects seek to condense Hamlet into the 140 character limit imposed by Twitter, how many creative (and aesthetic) possibilities exist for the digital writer? read more »

Whether you love Twitter or hate it, or still haven’t tried it, this was the week when it tweeted most loudly into the international public spotlight. read more »

Several books about Twitter will be released in the coming months, Monica Hesse writes for the Washington Post. Hesse collects some advice and wisdom from the authors of these books on how to get the most out of the 140 characters allowed for each Tweet.

Here are some of the tips she found:

*Make It Participatory - Use discussion and self-reflecting, philosophical questions, rather than simple questions like “What are you doing?” read more »

Jean Anleu Fernández, known on Twitter as "Jeanfer," was arrested by police who accused him of igniting financial panic in a message he wrote on Twitter urging people to remove their funds from a state-owned bank, elPeriódico reports. After paying a bail of 50 thousand quetzales (about US$6,000), he was freed, Prensa Libre noted. read more »

G20 summit Protests aren’t just taking place on the streets around the Bank of England; they are also taking place online, with many demonstrators using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to organize, mobilize and publicize campaigns, The Daily Telegraph reports. read more »

Before Obama's speech this week Democratic House representative Jared Polis Tweeted that it would be "impolite" to send updates from the floor of the U.S. House during the president's address, The Guardian reports. read more »

Twitter, the free micro-blogging service, has about 6 million users. This week, a highly visible Washington journalist incorporated Twitter into his work for ABC's "Nightline" program. While shadowing President Barack Obama for the day on Tuesday, co-anchor Terry Moran Twittered all morning from Air Force One. read more »

Longtime newspaper columnist Mirko Lauer of La Republica criticized instant messaging and micro-blogs such as Twitter, for promoting the diffusion of cyber-insults.

"A website called Twitter offers its readers a constantly updated collection of insults from everywhere, and it's not alone," he wrote. "It's an established convention that the etiquette of commentaries on Internet is that there's no etiquette." read more »

The weather reports about Hurricane Gustav did not persuade Sheila Moragas to leave her home in a suburb west of New Orleans. It was the 38-year-old mother’s shrinking number of online friends on the Twitter micro-blogging network that convinced her on Sunday that it was time to evacuate, writes James Janega of the Chicago Tribune. read more »