Teenagers really are over Facebook. In a deep report published on Tuesday, Pew Research explains that teenagers departing the social network's blue confines are looking for something more... authentic. Which, ironically, was the initial draw of Facebook, and has become something of a calling card for Tumblr and Twitter. Somewhere, Marissa Mayer is smiling.
Anthony Weiner will announce he's running for New York City mayor sometime this week, but he won't get the Clintons' official support or endorsement, Politico's Maggie Haberman reports.
Reports on Thursday of a Saudi Arabian sheikh dooming Twitter users to eternal damnation may seem like inexplicable hyperbole to Americans. But it's likely an escalation of attempts by Saudi authorities to crackdown on a key tool for dissent.
In this definitive telling of the history of Instagram we get CEO Kevin Systrom's reasoning for ultimately choosing Facebook's $1 billion offer over Twitter's $520 million—and it has less to do with money than you might think.
It may be mere coincidence, but after The Atlantic Wire reported that the Twitter account @barackobama is no longer controlled by the Obama administration or the White House, the account began tweeting far less frequently — and the @whitehouse account began tweeting much more frequently.
In response to the ongoing #FollowATeen movement, in which grownups examine the tweets of kids to discover how silly most of Twitter is, teens on the social platform are rising up and asking their brethren to #FollowAnAdult — because, as the team behind one prominent teems claims, adults are lame, too.
Arguably the most influential investor of all-time has finally been persuaded to join Twitter, causing an online stampede to receive his financial wisdom. Don't bet on it.
Not only is Weiner bragging about cashing in, he's bragging about how easy it was to cash in.
A little less than a week after a hacked Associated Press account reported a non-existent bombing at the White House, Twitter decided it was time to comfort journalists by warning them that they should expect to get hacked.
American jihadist Omar Hammami just tweeted that he'd been shot in the neck in an attempted assassination. Take the update with a grain of salt, but it may very well move Hammami into the lead for "tweet sent under the most duress."
Something was amiss after the hack, but Twitter told the AP what it takes for followers to return.
Some Twitter employee had a pretty rough day on Tuesday, after a hack led to the AP sending a fake tweet to its 2 million followers. If only the hacker had waited, Twitter could've stopped them!
After all the "misinformation flying around" that ended up as a part of the official news record during the hunt for the bombing suspects, it would make a lot of sense for Twitter to let you truly modify tweets. But it's unlikely Twitter would make such a move, according to two former Twitter developers and three social media developers who spoke with The Atlantic Wire.
The stock market took an instant nosedive — and made just as instant of a recovery — in response to an alarming tweet from the Associated Press account to its hundreds of thousands of followers at lunchtime on the East Coast Tuesday.
The entertainment industry's looking pretty experimental these days, with the announcement of a new five-day-long comedy festival on Twitter. Yes, there is a hashtag involved.
After a soft roll out with celebrities over Coachella weekend, Twitter Music is here for everyone else, after a big debut on Good Morning America on Thursday.
Monday's horrific events at the Boston Marathon produced equally horrific images, which in the age of social media news meant a constant, unsolicited bombardment of the gruesome aftermath of a gruesome event.
There is at least some relative calm amidst the panic that is the "ongoing event" in Boston right now: Cellphone service is overwhelmed in the area, but there remain important ways for people to reach loved ones online.
With Twitter's new music service reportedly coming out sometime this weekend, it's time to consider if we really want to go to our Twitter friends to find new tunes.
Cohen explained to multiple outlets that calling the singer-activist Cyndi Lauper "hot" on Twitter and then deleting the tweet, was part of an elaborate ploy to prank the political media, thereby drawing attention to their taste for scandal.
Google's new "digital afterlife" feature feels creepy and morbid, but it's the kind of responsible data control we should embrace for the rest of our Internet selves.
The sentiment from newfound Twitter haters like Wired writer Mat Honan and Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein is not as simple as the dismissal of haters past. The new argument is more complex than it-is-what-you-make-of-it: Now, Twitter doesn't let you make it good enough.
If Twitter is the new résumé, will any of us ever have a job? Or will we just stop wanting to tweet?
In addition to admitting his run for mayor, Weiner admits he got caught up in the thrill of social media, which allows regular citizens to interact with politicians in a way that's never been possible before. It feels very democratic. But sometimes it also feels like you've seen a kind of desperation that you shouldn't have seen.
The former president's Twitter philosophy? "There's nothing worse than a friendless tweeter." Well now he has close to 34,000 Twitter followers for the new account Colbert took the liberty of setting up for him: @PrezBillyJeff.
The 29,503,030 people who follow Barack Obama's Twitter account might see his picture, see his name, see that little blue verified account badge and think they're following the President — but it's not him.
Bloomberg (not the man) has added tweets to Bloomberg Terminal, its Wall Street information machine, hoping to fix, in one fell swoop and in a week when the SEC stepped in on social media, all of the headaches that Twitter has been giving the markets.
After deleting the tweet in an attempt to cover up their mistake, the United States Embassy in Cairo is dealing with a second round of backlash for tweeting a to a Daily Show segment criticizing the Egyptian government.
Just for some Friday terrorizing, the Internet has resurrected this terrifying website Let Me Tweet That for You that lets you fake a tweet from someone else, which is about as potentially scary as it sounds—unless you know how to spot a forgery.
"The best thing about the Earth," Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas tweeted today, "is if you poke holes in it oil and gas come out." This was a provocation that Twitter couldn't resist.
There are behaviors more shameful on Twitter than simply asking for a couple more followers, please.
Five years after Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone filed the application, the government granted issued a shiny new patent to the two cyber-inventors on Tuesday. Their invention? Twitter, of course.
Much like HBO's The Newsroom, Young Republicans National Policy Chairman Jason Whitman seems to be living two years in the past.
Your social media mess is blessed again. Amid a tour of firsts, the newly installed Pope Francis has finally fired up the Pontifex Twitter account since it was scrubbed and reset after Benedict stepped down.
Have you heard? Justin Bieber fainted backstage in London. And then, depending on your news source, he was rushed to hospital and either admitted or given a bed where he could show off his abs on Instagram.
What's surprising about Pew Research's study suggesting that sentiment on Twitter often doesn't track with public opinion isn't that this happens — it's that the extremes are fairly ideologically balanced.
The family of TweetDeck apps that made it easier to read and compose microblog posts passed away on Monday evening. It was just four years old.
By now, we're all familiar with the rituals associated with the papacy changing hands — white smoke, the red shoes, free helicopter rides — but the Vatican has discovered a new one for the 21st century.
There's a new little Twitter game happening that we will call the Vortex of Wow in which someone tweets "Wow." and then a link to another person tweeting "Wow." with a link to another person tweeting "Wow." and then, well, you get the picture.
When Gary Mead sent notice of his planned resignation to colleagues, it's likely he didn't expect that the move would almost instantly become a furious topic in the boiling debate over the sequester.
In all this Twitter $10 billion valuation talk a lot of theoretical numbers and estimates get thrown out there as fact.
After a couple of high-profile corporate hacks last week, a much nastier Twitter sabotage took place today on behalf of supporters of Bashar Al-Assad.
Donald Trump's Twitter account might have been hacked Thursday, or he might have been sincerely quoting Lil' Wayne when he tweeted, "These hoes think they classy, well that's the class I'm skippen." It's so hard to tell with The Donald.
How long until something as ephemeral as Twitter is respected as a protected medium for creation? This may all sound overly dramatic — we're talking about where a fake Guy Fieri menu came from — but the boundaries of ownership do matter.
Just as the week of the big-brand Twitter hack was getting as old as it was useful to the "victims," the feeds of BET and MTV were "hacked." Except they were stunt-hacked in a pre-planned, inter-office joke that turned into a viral marketing ploy gone bad.
One day after @BurgerKing got their Twitter account hijacked, @Jeep has become the newest corporate victim of social media espionage.
If it weren't for the strictness of the Chinese government's Internet firewall, security firm Mandiant may never have discovered the identities of the Chinese army's instantly notorious "Comment Crew."
It seems that the officially verified Twitter account of the Burger King has become the victim of a prank, since the account announced they were sold to McDonald's and all their employees are on drugs.
Facebook announced in a blog post on Friday afternoon that its "systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack" and that "Facebook was not alone," which immediately raised the cyber-espionage question of the moment: Was China behind this one, too?
With an oversaturation of obvious jokes coming from get-followers-quick users who jump on major news events, one comedian's bold move to squat on a newsy handle is, indeed, an heroic gesture. But it's also futile.
Rep. Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, attracted unwanted attention after the State of the Union address, when press reported on flirtatious tweets sent to a very pretty 24-year-old blonde.
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