A nasty and personal exchange between Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and an advocate of women in corporate boardrooms has thrown a spotlight on a serious issue in Silicon Valley: the dearth of women in...
A new book about Twitter has revealed that the microblogging site was once approached about being bought by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and former vice president Al Gore.
The roiling debate over the partial suspension of government services is extending to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as fed-up Americans turn to social media to register their disgust with federal...
Twitter is launching an alerts feature that lets U.S. users receive emergency notices as text messages.
Jesus Christ was the world's first tweeter because his pronouncements were "brief and full of meaning", Vatican cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said Wednesday.
Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing...
The U.S. government demanded information on 902 people in 2013 -- up from 815 in the last half of 2012 and 679 in the same period a year ago, despite a growing national concern over the secret...
Twitter and other social media sites give users a platform to share their every day activities with friends. While the technology that allows people to broadcast their thoughts in 140 characters or...
A brewery in London named a beer called #Mashtag after Twitter hashtags and also, fittingly, decided on the ingredients with some tweet-sourced input. It was only a matter of time.
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