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Last night, DNS settings for the Twitter web site were hijacked. From 9:46pm to 11pm PST, approximately 80% of Traffic to Twitter.com was redirected to other web sites. We <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/twitter/status/6789717364">tweeted</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/dns-disruption.html">blogged</a>, and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://status.twitter.com/post/288586541/working-on-site-outage">updated our status page</a> last night.<br/><br/>During the attack, we were in direct contact with our DNS provider, Dynect. We worked closely to reset our DNS as quickly as possible. The motive for this attack appears to have been focused on defacing our site, not aimed at users—we don't believe any accounts were compromised. If you're concerned that your account could have been affected in some way, feel free to contact us, accountsafe [at] twitter.com. </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("Biz");</script> at 1:33 PM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/dns-disruption.html">DNS Disruption</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header">Thursday, December 17, 2009</h2> <div class="post-content"> As we <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/twitter/status/6789717364">tweeted a bit ago</a>, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed. As some noticed, Twitter.com was redirected for a while but API and platform applications were working. We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully. </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("Biz");</script> at 11:43 PM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/what-do-indonesia-and-ireland-have-in.html">What do Indonesia and Ireland have in common?</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header"> </h2> <div class="post-content"> They both have carriers that launched Twitter's Text Messaging service today. We are excited to announce that our friends at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://www.three.co.id/">3 Indonesia</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://www.o2online.ie/">O2 Ireland</a> have both made the Twitter SMS service available to their subscribers without any additional fees. Sending and receiving text messages with Twitter is just like sending and receiving them with your friends. It's a simple way to tell the world what's happening while out and about by quickly sending a text message to Twitter. Additionally, users can turn on text notifications for individual people they follow as well as, direct messages.<br/><br/>Customers of 3 Indonesia have exciting additional functionality available. 3 is the first carrier in Indonesia to support sending photos to Twitter via MMS by incorporating <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitpic.com/">TwitPic</a>. Give it a try today on your 3 Indonesia phone by sending "START" to 89887.<br/><br/>O2 is the first carrier to launch Twitter SMS in Ireland so, if you are a lucky O2 Ireland customer send "START" to 51210 and either sign up for Twitter or activate your phone with your current Twitter username. Also, be sure to check out all of the cool <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/14020">commands</a> we support.<br/><br/>More countries and carriers are coming soon. Check <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/devices">here</a> to see which countries and carriers currently support Twitter Text Messaging. </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("kevinthau");</script> at 4:31 PM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/was-gibts-neues.html">Was gibt's Neues?</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header">Wednesday, December 16, 2009</h2> <div class="post-content"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vR_Z8fpX1iY/SykdXbL8D5I/AAAAAAAAAEE/d90xRBbA9RU/s1600-h/Twitter+German+blog+art+large.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 348px;" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107im_/http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vR_Z8fpX1iY/SykdXbL8D5I/AAAAAAAAAEE/d90xRBbA9RU/s320/Twitter+German+blog+art+large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415892315161759634" border="0"/></a><br/>Deutsch ist eine der weitverbreitetsten Sprachen der EU und ist die letzte Sprache, die wir im Jahr 2009 auf Twitter.com einf眉hren.<br/><br/>Mit der unentbehrlichen Hilfe unserer vielen fantastischen 脺bersetzer und 脺bersetzerinnen, haben wir f眉nf neue Sprachen in weniger als zwei Monate eingef眉hrt - eine riesen Leistung f眉r unsere Internationalisierungsgruppe. Umso schneller wir Twitter f眉r Leute 眉berall auf der Welt zug盲nglich machen, desto schneller die verschiedenen Kulturen der Welt den globalen Gespr盲ch auf Twitter beeinflussen k枚nnen.<br/><br/>Hier sind ein paar deutschsprachige Benutzer, die sich schon aktiv auf Twitter engagieren und Dich vielleicht interessieren:<br/><br/>@<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/SPIEGEL_Eil">SPIEGEL_Eil</a>—deutsche Zeitschrift<br/>@<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/Paulvandyk">Paulvandyk</a>—Grammy nominierter DJ aus Berlin<br/>@<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/silenttiffy">silenttiffy</a>—deutsche Schriftstellerin<br/>@<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/dieternuhr">Dieternuhr</a>—Kabarettist und Moderator<br/>@<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/Calmund">Calmund</a>—<span>langj盲hriger Bundesliga-Manager</span><br/><br/>Um Deine Sprachpr盲ferenzen einzustellen, besuche Deine Einstellungsseite und w盲hle Deutsch im Aufklappmen眉 "Sprache" aus. Die ganze Web-Oberfl盲che wird sich sofort 眉bersetzen! Als n盲chster Schritt, besuche und folge dem offizielen "Twitter auf Deutsch" Profil, @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/Twitter_De">Twitter_De</a>. So k枚nnen unsere deutsche Benutzer sich 眉ber Neuigkeiten bei Twitter auf dem Laufenden halten. Zuletzt, sag Deinen Freunden Bescheid und geh voran und twittere! </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("jennadawn");</script> at 3:10 PM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/top-twitter-trends-of-2009.html">Top Twitter Trends of 2009</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header">Tuesday, December 15, 2009</h2> <div class="post-content"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_14cEenKeR04/SygI8Gp0F9I/AAAAAAAAADY/hELPQB1mQKo/s1600-h/2009trends_large.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107im_/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_14cEenKeR04/SygI8Gp0F9I/AAAAAAAAADY/hELPQB1mQKo/s400/2009trends_large.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415588380584187858" border="0"/></a><br/><br/>My name is Abdur and I'm part of the Research team here at Twitter. As Chief Scientist, it's my job to interpret data so we can understand and appreciate how Twitter is constantly evolving. Since it's the end of the year, we thought it would be interesting to review the topics and issues that captured global attention over the year. In 2009, Twitter’s Trending Topics helped us understand what was happening around the world showing us that people everywhere can be united in concern around important events; excited about a new movie; or geek-out about a major new technology.<br/><br/>Among all the keywords, hashtags, and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly. Twitter users found the Iranian elections the most engaging topic of the year. The terms #iranelection, Iran and Tehran were all in the top-21 of Trending Topics, and #iranelection finished in a close second behind the regular weekly favorite #musicmonday.<br/><br/>These are Twitter’s top Trending Topics across several categories—an interesting time capsule of what was happening as this decade came to a close.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">News Events</span><br/> 1. #iranelection<br/> 2. Swine Flu<br/> 3. Gaza<br/> 4. Iran<br/> 5. Tehran<br/> 6. #swineflu<br/> 7. AIG<br/> 8. #uksnow<br/> 9. Earth Hour<br/> 10. #inaug09<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">People</span><br/> 1. Michael Jackson<br/> 2. Susan Boyle<br/> 3. Adam Lambert<br/> 4. Kobe (Bryant)<br/> 5. Chris Brown<br/> 6. Chuck Norris<br/> 7. Joe Wilson<br/> 8. Tiger Woods<br/> 9. Christian Bale<br/> 10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Movies</span><br/> 1. Harry Potter<br/> 2. New Moon<br/> 3. District 9<br/> 4. Paranormal Activity<br/> 5. Star Trek<br/> 6. True Blood<br/> 7. Transformers 2<br/> 8. Watchmen<br/> 9. Slumdog Millionaire<br/> 10. G.I. Joe<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">TV Shows</span><br/> 1. American Idol<br/> 2. Glee<br/> 3. Teen Choice Awards<br/> 4. SNL (Saturday Night Live)<br/> 5. Dollhouse<br/> 6. Grey’s Anatomy<br/> 7. VMAS (Video Music Awards)<br/> 8. #bsg (Battlestar Galatica)<br/> 9. BET Awards<br/> 10. Lost<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sports (Teams, Events, Leagues)</span><br/> 1. Super Bowl<br/> 2. Lakers<br/> 3. Wimbledon<br/> 4. Cavs (Cleveland Cavaliers)<br/> 5. Superbowl<br/> 6. Chelsea<br/> 7. NFL<br/> 8. UFC 100<br/> 9. Yankees<br/> 10. Liverpool<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technology</span><br/> 1. Google Wave<br/> 2. Snow Leopard<br/> 3. Tweetdeck<br/> 4. Windows 7<br/> 5. CES<br/> 6. Palm Pre<br/> 7. Google Latitude<br/> 8. #E3<br/> 9. #amazonfail<br/> 10. Macworld<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hash Tags</span><br/> 1. #musicmonday<br/> 2. #iranelection<br/> 3. #sxsw<br/> 4. #swineflu<br/> 5. #nevertrust<br/> 6. #mm<br/> 7. #rememberwhen<br/> 8. #3drunkwords<br/> 9. #unacceptable<br/> 10. #iwish </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("Abdur");</script> at 1:19 PM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/feature-test-with-businesses.html">A feature test with businesses</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header">Monday, December 14, 2009</h2> <div class="post-content"> <p>My name is Anamitra and I work in the product team at Twitter. For some time now, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/">businesses of all sizes have been using Twitter</a> to deepen their engagement with customers. The simple features that Twitter has offered to all users has worked for business users as well. As Twitter becomes more integral to businesses, they will need more business specific features from Twitter – both on the web and API. We have been working on some of these features and are ready to start a limited beta test of one that's further along in development.<br/><br/>The feature we are beta testing is called 'Contributors' – it enables users to engage in more authentic conversations with businesses by allowing those organizations to manage multiple contributors to their account. The feature appends the contributor's username to the tweet byline, making the business to consumer communication more personal; e.g. if @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/twitter">Twitter</a> invites @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/biz">Biz</a> to tweet on its behalf, then a tweet from @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/twitter">Twitter</a> would include @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/biz">Biz</a> in the byline so that users know more about the real people behind organizations.<br/><br/><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0FMxiz6aXzg/Sya6xu8HJ6I/AAAAAAAAAD0/aa1609VcTi0/s1600-h/tweet.png"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107im_/http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0FMxiz6aXzg/Sya6xu8HJ6I/AAAAAAAAAD0/aa1609VcTi0/s320/tweet.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415220965536114594" style="width: 320px; height: 54px; margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto "/></a><br/><br/>Its functionality will be fully supported by the API and will enhance the many Twitter business apps, such as <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://cotweet.com/">CoTweet</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://hootsuite.com/">HootSuite</a>.<br/><br/><b>It's Not Ready For Prime Time</b><br/><br/>This feature is one of several in development; some of them will be visible to regular users and some of them will not. Our goal at this time is to get basic feedback from business users and ecosystem partners. The beta will be released to a limited subset of folks for some time so that we can get an idea of how the features work from a system perspective. After we kick the tires a bit, we'll do a full launch to all business users and ecosystem partners. Stay tuned!</p> </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("anamitra");</script> at 2:02 PM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/ed-ecco-litaliano.html">Ed ecco l'italiano!</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header">Thursday, December 10, 2009</h2> <div class="post-content"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E8ZD85Wzu9E/SyFmDUgzS-I/AAAAAAAAApY/0-q8uEXTpPo/s1600-h/Twitter+Italian+blog+art+large.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107im_/http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E8ZD85Wzu9E/SyFmDUgzS-I/AAAAAAAAApY/0-q8uEXTpPo/s400/Twitter+Italian+blog+art+large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413720434307976162" border="0"/></a>Siamo emozionati perch茅 oggi con il lancio della versione italiana del nostro sito diventiamo ancora di pi霉 una piattaforma di comunicazione globale. Come sempre, desideriamo ringraziare tutti i traduttori che hanno partecipato al progetto e che ci hanno mostrato la loro bravura.<br/><br/>Potrete seguire famosi giornalisti come @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/beppesevergnini">beppesevergnini</a> oppure radio come @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/radiodeejay">radiodeejay</a>, la radio di Linus & C. o ancora una delle pi霉 famose cantanti italiane, Laura Pausini (@<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/officialpausini">officialpausini</a>).<br/><br/>Ora che le conversazioni su Twitter si arricchiscono di punti di vista sempre pi霉 diversificati a livello globale, il network di informazioni continuer脿 a crescere in ogni angolo e fessura del pianeta. Pi霉 eventi saranno condivisi, pi霉 conoscenza e consapevolezza si diffonder脿 e i milioni di persone che alimentano Twitter influenzeranno altri milioni di persone con i loro tweet.<br/><br/>E quale modo migliore di festeggiare il lancio di Twitter in Italia? Un bel Tweetup a base di pizza, amici e tweet. I nostri amici di @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/pizzatwit">pizzatwit</a> saranno felici di organizzare un pizza party e se volete incontrare un sacco di nuovi amici e twittare tutta notte, vi consigliamo di seguire il loro account e di aiutarli ad organizzare uno dei loro famosi Twitter Pizza Party!<br/><br/>Per usare Twitter in italiano, andate nelle vostre impostazioni e selezionate la lingua dal men霉 a tendina. Buon divertimento! </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("jennadawn");</script> at 1:20 PM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/tool-for-business.html">A Tool for Business</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header">Monday, December 07, 2009</h2> <div class="post-content"> It’s not uncommon to stumble upon a store that encourages its customers to follow them on Twitter. Without even looking I see this happening more and more, which says a lot about the wonderfully simple concept of doing business on Twitter.<br/><br/>Today, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blogs.citysearch.com/national" target="_blank">Citysearch has integrated Twitter</a> into their service so local businesses can display Tweets right within their Citysearch profile, and customers viewing the profile can even Tweet back right from there. Potential customers can make smarter decisions with the fresh information being shared with them in real time, and businesses can manage closer connections with audiences across the Web.<br/><br/>Simplicity along with the smart creations from third parties like Citysearch are making it more than handy for businesses to have a presence on Twitter. </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("jennadawn");</script> at 9:50 AM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/takeout-dogfood.html">Takeout dogfood</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header">Thursday, December 03, 2009</h2> <div class="post-content"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8SR4vhJOubM/Sxars85iaWI/AAAAAAAAAq4/lF46KpPxqI4/s1600-h/m2-medly.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107im_/http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8SR4vhJOubM/Sxars85iaWI/AAAAAAAAAq4/lF46KpPxqI4/s320/m2-medly.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410700791082281314"/></a><br/><br/>Hi all, this is @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/leland">leland</a>, user experience lead on the @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/twittermobile">twittermobile</a> team. I wanted to share a little bit of what we've been working on and thinking about.<br/><br/>It’s probably no secret that Twitter has an active developer community, using our APIs to create fantastically innovative apps. Nor is it a secret that Twitter and mobile phones go together like birds and flight.<br/><br/>What may be a less known fact is: Lots of people access Twitter on their phones via our good ol’ mobile website, and trusty ‘m’ has been delivering tweets faithfully. However, ‘m’ doesn’t fully feel like Twitter, and could probably do a bit more things for you.<br/><br/>‘M’ should also be fantastically innovative — naturally the best way to do that is use our own APIs. So, the mobile team here built a brand new mobile web client from scratch, using only Twitter APIs, and we'd like to share the results with you.<br/><br/>Our new mobile web site is previewing today, just point your phone’s browser to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://mobile.twitter.com/">http://mobile.twitter.com</a>. Its got a great new look, and has some great new touches that will make your mobile experience on Twitter a bit more fun and a lot more helpful. Let us know if you agree and especially tell us how we can make it better.<br/><br/>This preview works best on @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/webkit">Webkit</a> browsers – Android, iPhone, Nokia S60 and Palm Web OS phones all come with these browsers installed. Other browsers like @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/blackberry">BlackBerry</a> work too, but we haven't done all the fine tuning yet.<br/><br/>As this preview becomes ready for prime-time, we will start switching everyone who uses ‘m’ in phases to automatically receive the new mobile web client.<br/><br/>This is just the start, we’re excited about the new APIs launching at Twitter, and have been busy tinkering with some neat ways to use them. We look forward to sharing more cool things with you soon. </div> <p class="post-footer"><em>Posted by @<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("Leland");</script> at 5:45 PM</em></p> </li> <li class="reg-post"> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/aids-is-preventable-and-treatable.html">AIDS is Preventable and Treatable</a></h3> <h2 class="date-header">Tuesday, December 01, 2009</h2> <div class="post-content"> <center><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W4GMYQx58OE&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107oe_/http://www.youtube.com/v/W4GMYQx58OE&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></center>Over the course of several meetings with the dedicated people behind <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://www.joinred.com/Home.aspx">(RED)</a> we have learned a lot about fighting AIDS in Africa. Personally, I was struck by how effective treatment can be—someone on death's door can be brought back to life in as little as 90 days. This transformation is called the Lazarus Effect and it has more impact than you can imagine. When someone is treated, they can go back to being a mom, they can go back to their job, or to school. Fighting the disease at a large scale means positive changes not just for individuals but also socially and economically as people return to productive lives.<br/><br/>This amazing transformation comes from two pills daily at a cost of forty cents per day. Our friends at (Product)Red are making it easy for us to help fight AIDS by partnering with companies that make the products we buy already. For example, these <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://www.nike.com/nikefootball/red/home?locale=en_US">red laces Nike designed</a> to both raise awareness and help financially. At Twitter, we're making it fun and easy to spread the word about this preventable and treatable disease that is hitting Africa the hardest. If you use any of the following terms below today on Twitter your tweet will turn red. Today is World AIDS day, help us spread the word.<br/><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">#red</span> 100% of the monies generated by (RED) partners and events goes directly to fund programs to fight AIDS in Africa<br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">@joinred</span> is the official account of the (RED) campaign<br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">40 cents</span> a day can keep someone with AIDS alive<br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">World AIDS Day</span> is the perfect day to tweet for a cause<br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">AIDS</span> is preventable and treatable<br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">HIV </span>affects 33 million people around the world<br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">#laceupsavelives</span> is Nike's own campaign<br/></blockquote>We've also created a red theme which you can switch to in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/account/profile_settings">your profile settings</a>. Don't forget to follow @<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091222182107/http://twitter.com/joinred">joinred</a> to stay informed. 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