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Chart: Who is using Twitter?

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Do you use Twitter on a daily basis? If so, you are one of eight percent of Americans who do so. That’s the latest statistic from a report out by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

As you’ll see in the chart above, daily Twitter use is on the rise, from two percent in November 2010 to five percent in August 2011. What’s driving the surge?

The report doesn’t offer specifics, but does speculate that it could correlate with the increase in smartphone

How to Check if Your Yahoo, Gmail or AOL Passwords Were Leaked

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Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that its user-generated contributor network Yahoo! Voices was the subject of a massive data breach, with more than 400,000 usernames and passwords stolen from its servers.

But it wasn’t just Yahoo! email addresses that have been infiltrated: Gmail, MSN, Hotmail, Comcast and AOL accounts have also been hacked. (Yahoo! Voices allows you to sign in with non-Yahoo! email addresses.)

Thanks to Sucuri Malware Labs, you can now check to see if your email account via Yahoo! Voices — not

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