Mixing commercial and social elements in an online community is an extraordinarily delicate game.

It’s partly why Twitter has been careful about how it will monetize its business and why Facebook confronted an uproar after it launched its controversial Beacon advertising program two years ago. People “friend” and “follow” to stay connected, not to be bombarded with advertising – and they certainly don’t want to be thrust into shilling products or services.

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  A Russian activist blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday…
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  Koobface, a virus that targets computers via social networking sites, is apparently back and with added sophistication.
  A typical Koobface attack – like the one that…
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  Not surprising: Twitter and Facebook’s downtime this morning was no coincidence. The two companies were victims of “a single, massively coordinated attack,” according to co-founder Biz Stone…

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