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By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times Members of the U.S. House of Representatives yanked a proposal, introduced by Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-7th district of Colorado), that would have been an addition to the current Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012, H.R. 3309.  The amendment would have empowered the FCC in preventing employers from asking job applicants or employees for the user names and passwords to their social networking sites such as Facebook.  According to Techcrunch , only one House Republican voted in support of the changes. The final vote numbers were reported as 236 to 184.  Read More Click to learn more on H.R. 3309 -- The Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012

By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times Social media mogul site Twitter spoke publicly Wednesday about the site's unfollowing bug, which users have been complaining about for months. According to a Twitter spokesman Twitter Tech personnel are working to fix the bug and advised Tweeters to visit the site's support page for assistance. If you think that you have been visited by the un-follow bug, don't panic. The glitch only makes it appear as if you are no longer following particular Tweeters when in fact you are.