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I'm looking forward to attending next week's two-day Web Forward internet marketing conference, which is running as a side to the always-growing CeBIT Australia Exhibition.

This year, the big bonus is that General Manager of Google Australia and New Zealand; Mr. Karim Temsamami will attend and speak to us delegates.

The latest comments from Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggest a 'partnership' of sorts, if not a complete takeover, is on the cards with micro-blogging website Twitter.

Twitter has experienced 1000+% growth every month this year, and although its retention rate has been a debate worth having by some (see Nielsen Report criticism and VentureBeat's Jesse Farmer's reply), Google obviously sees enough value in it to engage in talks with the company which is the biggest thing on the social media scene since Facebook.

The UK Telegraph quotes Schmidt commenting on rumoured takeover talks: "We do not have to buy everyone to work with them."

Nielsen Online research in recent months revealed that Twitter's retention rate of users coming back the month after joining was a low 40%. This means 60% of Twitter subscribers do not return in month 2.

40% looks especially low compared to the 70% retention rate of fellow social media website Facebook.

However what numbers cannot measure is the power of Twitter for business, the power of Twitter for organisations and the power of Twitter for individuals.

The power of Twitter as today's top, and most updated, news source showed both its best and worst sides this morning with the breaking news of king of pop, Michael Jackson's sudden death.

The news of his 'heart attack', then death quickly spread through Twitter. From the people I follow, it was Ashton Kutcher (aka @aplusk) who tweeted first after seeing the breaking report on celebrity gossip website, TMZ.

Ultra-popular micro-blogging website Twitter was offline for over an hour overnight (Thursday) due to an unlikely hacker attack.

I personally notice numerous people I follow complaining 'what is happening with Twitter' between posts, until the service blacked out. The head office of the social networking phenomenon only managed to get the service up and running an hour later, with the warning that they are "continuing to defend against and recover from this attack".

No user data was under threat and everything seems to be running normally today.

I wonder if Twitter's ability to stifle censoring regimes like Iran and China by allowing people to report truths is a reason???

Politics has infiltrated the web again, with the blogger at the centre of attacks which brought down Twitter, Facebook and Google blaming Russia for going to amazing lengths to censor his musings on the Georgian conflict.

"Cyxymu" - which stands for the capital of the oppressed Georgian Abkhazia region from which he hails - has profiles on micro-blogging website Twitter, social networking website Facebook and Google's open LiveJournal blogging solution.

He blogs about all that is going on in Georgia, and among his writings is an open letter to the Russian President.

"Cyxymu", who says his real name is Giorgi, was the subject of the attacks that saw the websites he uses go down - in Twitter's case for over 1 hour!

Of course, he feels the Russian government is behind these attacks.
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