And the Dodgers have increased their Titter follower from 70, 000 to less than 30, 000 a year ago.

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So your comparison of Mr Obama to Vladimir Putin, though worthy of a titter, doesn't hold up.

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San Francisco was a titter (and Twitter) with tales of a facially rising ocean that would lift all boats.

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Imagine how much their direct reports titter with excitement hearing these.

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K. spoke, just as no native speaker of German, or one who does know this language would titter if someone said, Ich bin ein Wiener or Hamburgeror Frankfurter.

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Then Iran: after Israel strikes, the world will be poised at the chaotic edge, like a classroom (again) that could either go ballistic or merely titter and settle down, depending on cues from the teacher.

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Toyota's top hybrid engineers say they are all for plug-ins, but they don't think the lithium-ion batteries they depend on will be ready to meet their stringent quality standards for several years. (They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries.) Toyota is therefore likely to stick with the heavy and range-limited nickel-metal hydride battery for the third-generation Prius, due in 2009.

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