May 3, 2016 Twitter.com back up after suffering outage Twitter.com suffered an outage Monday, leaving some users frustrated.
May 3, 2016 Social media giants clamp down on sickening Virginia shooting footage Social media giants Facebook and Twitter, along with video sharing site YouTube, rushed to remove shocking video footage that appeared to show the shooting of two television news journalists Wednesday.
May 3, 2016 Twitter removes 140-character limit from Direct Messages Twitter might be known for its stringent 140-character limit to its tweets, but it has now loosened those guidelines for Direct Messages. The social media site announced Wednesday that the 140-character limit to Direct Messages has been lifted.
May 3, 2016 GOP debates: Trump and Fiorina were the most trending on Google Thursday night’s first Republican presidential debates of the 2016 election season generated a lot of heat both on stage at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio and on social media. Google Trends was tracking which candidates were trending online both during and after the Fox News debates.
May 3, 2016 'The shoe' goes viral, becomes the new 'the dress' on Twitter Is "#theshoe" the new "#thedress?" When Twitter user @totallymendes asked her followers which shade of nail polish went best with her bright pink high-heeled shoe, little did she know that the image would -- as of now -- be retweeted over 5,000 times. The image was posted Wednesday afternoon, and soon the hashtag #theshoe was trending across Twitter. Who knew soliciting for online fashion advice would cause such a stir?
May 3, 2016 How social media giants supported UK election voters While Conservative Party leader David Cameron was swept to victory in the U.K. General Election, a number of Silicon Valley heavyweights were busy touting technologies for the country’s voters.
May 3, 2016 Twitter steps up efforts to end the worst of abusive online trolling Twitter has spelled out a new strategy for dealing more effectively with abusive trolling, as the microblogging service risks becoming a platform for the worst kind of hate and threats.
May 3, 2016 ISIS supporters may operate over 46,000 Twitter accounts, study says As the social media battle with Islamic State escalates, a report from the Brookings Institution warns that ISIS supporters may be operating more than 46,000 Twitter accounts.
May 3, 2016 Anonymous reportedly hacks into Twitter, Facebook accounts linked to Islamic State Anonymous, the online hacking collective known as 'hacktivists,' took credit Tuesday with shutting down more than 1,500 social media accounts they linked to Islamic State supporters.
May 3, 2016 Newsweek Twitter account hacked by ‘CyberCaliphate’ Newsweek’s Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday morning by a group describing itself as “CyberCaliphate,” the latest in a series of high-profile hacks by apparent cyber jihadists.
