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50 Cent Touts Stock on Twitter

Over the weekend, the popular rapper 50 Cent urged his 3.8 million Twitter followers to buy the stock of a microscopic company in Florida. The penny stock jumped 290 percent on Monday. As a result, 50 Cent had a paper profit that was briefly worth almost $5.2 million on paper.

Using Facebook and Twitter to Change the World

Basketball superstar LeBron James last week opened up a Twitter account and had 235,000 followers within a single day. In a new book, media technologist and consultant Deanna Zandt argues that while huge numbers like that may constitute success for mass media icons and idols, they mask the real potential of social media networks like Twitter and Facebook to accomplish social good.