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Popular on Twitter: Google and BitTorrent, Aol and Patch, Couric and Diller

By Hourly Press Jan. 27, 2011, 2 p.m.

Localeaks: A drop-box for anonymous tips to 1,400 US newspapers

Netflix plans to use Facebook to split households into personal accounts

Photo: Katie Couric helping Barry Diller push his Maserati out of the snow

Hulu reworks its script as digital change hits TV

Google begins filtering Cyberlocker and BitTorrent

DC’s #Thundersnow, as told in the words and photos of those who lived it

Zell’s only regret is the unflattering glare of the spotlight

Jarvis: “The disruptors arrive at Davos”

Is Mark Salter the “anonymous” author of “O”?

Business Insider does the math on Patch—and it’s not pretty

POSTED Jan. 27, 2011, 2 p.m.

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