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If you were to ask “over 200 social media leaders” which social media site they would pay for if they had to, as Abrams Research recently did, Facebook would come out on top, with 32.2 percent saying they would pay for it. LinkedIn was second, Twitter was third, and MySpace and Digg tied for last place.  But if you ask, which one would they recommend for businesses to pay for, Twitter beats Facebook by more than two to one (39.6 percent vs. 15.3 percent). LinkedIn again comes in second. Why did Twitter come out on top. It is seen as an efficient way for companies to get their marketing messages out there. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/17/survey-says-twitter-is-better-than-facebook-for-businesses 2/17)

When Facebook recently changed its terms of service to no longer allow users to delete their data when they leave the service, it justifiably created an uproar. Just what is Facebook planning to do with this data, and isn’t it mine to delete if I wish. In a blog post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries to calm everyone down. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/16/zuckerberg-on-who-owns-user-data-on-facebook-its-complicated 2/16)

Today was the second day in the trial brought against popular torrent site The Pirate Bay by a phalanx of media companies formed by Universal, Warner Brothers, MGM, EMI, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and Sony BMG.   So far the trial has amounted to a circus wherein the plaintiffs have struggled to make their case. According to them, The Pirate Bay has profitably caused over $13 million in damages by assisting copyright infringement and helping to make copyrighted material available. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/17/half-the-charges-against-the-pirate-bay-dropped-but-the-circus-aint-over-yet 2/17)

AMC has teamed up with Sony to launch online “minisodes” of the cable network’s “Breaking Bad” series. The five stand-alone shorts, each running between three and five minutes, debut today at AMC’s Web site and at Crackle.com. The Hollywood Reporter (2/16)