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There’s no denying that in the last few months, micro-blogging and social-networking service Twitter has broken out of the Web 2.0 world and into mainstream mass media, with Ashton Kutcher going to war with CNN and Oprah very publicly getting her tweet on. As such, the company has been the subject of a vast number of rumors and reports, the most persistent of which have listed Google, Microsoft, and even Apple as potential suitors for the company. But in an interview on the popular morning chat program The View—there’s some mainstream attention—Twitter co-founder Biz Stone had a one-word answer when asked if the company was for sale: “No.”

If celebrities didn’t already have enough outlets to send messages and news out to the loving public, Facebook has offered up one more podium. On Wednesday, the social networking site revealed its new Facebook public profiles feature, which will offer Facebook users a chance to keep tabs on public figures in a manner similar to Twitter.

Just as Twitter users subscribe to feeds from their friends, Facebook now allows its users to peg a handful of designated celebrities and organizations to view a “stream” of updates from them. The site has also altered the home page that users see when they log in to afford more control over the content they get hit with – allowing tweaks like blocking updates from friends you don’t keep in touch with.