Twitter stepped into the spotlight this week, not only as a charity organizer and possible advertising goldmine during the holidays , but as a legitimate news aggregator . Lots of tech blogs have been tauting Twitter's potential since its inception, but on-the-ground reports from the Mumbai terror attacks put the idea in motion. In some cases, Twitterers were able to be on the scene ...

Koornk Blatantly Rips Off Twitter (TechCrunch)
There are a lot of Twitter clones out there, often built by companies outside the US trying to steal the company's thunder by creating local communities with a translated application, something the San Francisco startup has focused little on so far. That this isn't always a direct road to success, proved German Twitter clone Duduku last year when it put itself for sale on eBay . Not that ...