Brazilian parents just got a new gadget to add to their parenting arsenal: TweetPee, a sensor + Twitter-based alert Huggies has rolled out in Brazil.
A sensor gets attached to the baby’s diaper, and when it perceives an increase in humidity it sends a tweet out to the parent’s Twitter account to let them know the baby needs to be changed.
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In a scientific statement published last week in the journal Circulation, the American Heart Association suggested that Facebook and Twitter hold promise in the fight against childhood obesity.
The study examined eight Internet-based randomized trials that reported weight loss, BMI change, physical activity and dietary intake as outcomes.
Seeing teens on Twitter is nothing shocking. But what about tweens? Elementary schoolers? Preschoolers?
A recent episode of a popular kids’ show had its host use Twitter and Facebook, as well as a “play book”, texting, blogging and emailing for its young audience’s benefit. But is is it too early for toddlers to be learning how to tweet?
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A new study of what types of tweets people are sending shows that some of us have a mean streak: there are over 100,000 insulting, teasing, and otherwise nasty tweets sent on the network every week.
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A watchdog group has come out and said that Twitter is far behind other social networks when it comes to fighting child abuse and pornography.
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A new survey shows that students in the UK are reading less – and the culprit might just be Twitter.
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A UK charity believes that alcohol companies are specifically targeting minors when they promote their products on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. They recommend that alcohol advertising should be banned on social networks.
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Parents’ associations in Australia are backing a proposal which would see their children taught how to use Facebook and Twitter properly in the classroom, in the hopes that teaching netiquette would stem the cyber-bullying problem among youth. But is this the right way to solve the problem?
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The internet can be a scary place for kids, as most parents with young ones know. That’s where the @safetyweb Twitter account comes in: it collects and shares stories about web safety aimed at parents trying to protect their children’s online reputation, their privacy, and their security.
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ConvergeUS, a US nonprofit designed to leverage the tech industry to promote growth and innovation in the social sector, was launched Wednesday by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and TechNet’s President and CEO Rey Ramsey. This new tech-based nonprofit will work with government, entities, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and the private sector to improve social conditions in the US.
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