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		<title>Top 10 most ridiculous Twitter stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Speed Budapest (Matt)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is receiving a lot of hype at the moment, with more than 8,000 mentions in the media each week.  A lot of these articles are becoming increasingly far-fetched, with The Daily Mail a particularly bad offender. Here&#8217;s a few of the most bizarre: Twitter gives you cancer - All those hours sat indoors tweeting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.twitter.com"><img class="alignright" src="http://assets0.twitter.com/images/twitter_logo_header.png" alt="" width="155" height="36" /></a>Twitter is receiving a lot of hype at the moment, with more than <a href="http://jnettawnee.blogspot.com/2009/04/whats-good-word-network-world.html">8,000 mentions in the media</a> each week.  A lot of these articles are becoming increasingly far-fetched, with The Daily Mail a particularly bad offender.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a few of the most bizarre:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/feb/19/twitter-networking-cancer-study">Twitter gives you cancer</a><br />
- All those hours sat indoors tweeting could increase your risk of cancer and damage your immune system by reducing the need to meet others face-to-face.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1170776/Look-repetitive-strain-injuries-Twitter-fans-warned.html">Twitter could give you Repetitive Strain Injury</a><br />
- Typing all those tweets could make your fingers go numb, leaving many users unable to inform their followers on Twitter that they are now suffering with RSI.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169788/Twitter-make-immoral-claim-scientists.html">Twitter makes users more immoral</a><br />
-  Tweeting too fast gives you no time to think about how your tweets could affect others.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1154673/Animal-magic-Lily-Allen-holds-fancy-dress-party-Twitter.html">Lily Allen holds fancy dress party on Twitter</a><br />
- The singer uploads pics of herself dressed as a duck to make her followers smi-i-ile&#8230;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166302/Students-demand-campus-ban-Twitter-Facebook-stop-computers-hogged.html">Students can&#8217;t do their work because of Twitter</a><br />
- Students are campaigning to stop Twitter fans from hogging university computers.</li>
<li><a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Ashton-Kutcher-Twitter-Actor-Wins-Race-With-CNN-For-One-Million-Followers-In-Web-Tweet-Contest/Article/200904315263606?lpos=Technology_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_9&amp;lid=ARTICLE_15263606_Ashton_Kutcher_Twitter%3A_Actor_Wins_Race_With_CNN_For_One_Million_Followers_In_Web_Tweet_Contest">Ashton Kutcher becomes the world&#8217;s first Twitter millionaire</a><br />
- The actor becomes the first user with 1 million followers. Stephen Fry must be devastated.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology">The Guardian to be available only by Twitter</a><br />
- The newspaper raised a titter by announcing on 1st April that it planned to become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Keira_Knightley:_I_hate_internet&amp;in_article_id=619313&amp;in_page_id=7&amp;in_a_source=">Keira Knightley hates Twitter</a><br />
- The actress just can&#8217;t stand the social networking site.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/content/view/376/1/">Moldovans turn to Twitter for information</a><br />
- A communications graduate has started translating tweets written in Romanian into English so that we can all sleep safely knowing what people are getting up to in Maldova.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html">Twitter harms children&#8217;s brains</a><br />
- Twitter can make kids more self centred by reducing their attention spans to such an extent that 140 characters is considered a big read.</li>
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<p>Can you think of any more tall tales about Twitter?</p>
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