Did Congressman Anthony Weiner really tweet a photo of his, well, wiener? It's possible, but he also might have been "hacked" via an image ...

durianwool writes "To avoid a defamation suit, a man in Malaysia has settled with lawyers saying he will tweet 100 times over the next 3 days that he's sorry for defaming a magazine company. Realizing the mistake in an original ...

whoever57 writes "In a case that could have implications for the Ryan Giggs affair, Twitter revealed user details in response to a legal action filed in San Mateo county, CA by lawyers representing South Tyneside council. The alleged libel refers ...

Andy Smith writes "Slashdot has already covered the super-injunctions furore in the UK, with one famous footballer going after an anonymous Twitter user who broke a court order and revealed his extra-marital affair. Now another footballer has asked the attorney ...

Twitter is updating its authentication system to give users more control over how third-party applications can access their accounts. Applications will now have to ...

If you're not based in the UK, you may have no idea what a "super-injunction" is. But if you're a Brit, they're apparently an ...

Note: Long-ass screencap of all his searches to date HERE. These are allegedly the search queries of an 81-year old grandpa whose elder-disrespecting son has convinced Twitter is a search engine. It has highly questionable written all over it considering ...

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gabbo529 writes "Twitter has been a source of breaking news since its inception five years ago, and the social network was used at a high rate last night with the death of Osama Bin Laden. [Sunday night] saw the highest ...

nk497 writes "Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web, has challenged users to improve social networks. He describes Twitter users as 'foaming at the mouth' and unwilling to retweet any update that wasn't offering an extreme opinion. 'How do you ...

​If you've been following the recent Internet dust-up between Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin and Damon Lindelof, you may have been wondering if the two men buried the hatchet after Martin publicly claimed he felt "cheated" by how ...

During their promotional trip to New York City earlier this week, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill were asked by the brilliant maniacs at BuzzFeed to read celebrity tweets in their best American accents. Taking on the 140-character-or-less musings ...

Twitter seems like it was made for nerds. Yes, there’s that sect of it that involves really annoying trends and endless status updates about how OMG AWESOME Justin Bieber is. But that’s a dark place, a place where we don’t ...

The rise of social media has turned it into a source of basic news for many people; even Twitter's character ...

​Stephen Colbert is a nerd's nerd, having played D&D as a kid and developed an impressive knowledge of J.R.R. Tolkien's works, among other things. As an alumnus of Second City, Strangers with Candy, and The Daily Show with Jon ...

Those who use their Twitter accounts for both personal and professional purposes often find themselves wondering whether they are damaging their credibility with funny ...

WesternActor writes "According to PCMag.com, the New York Times has asked Twitter to shut down the FreeNYT Twitter feed that basically retweets all of the Times' articles. Is this really possible? After all, the feed just points to a list ...

An anonymous reader writes "Banks in Great Britain are running scared of using social media services like Facebook and Twitter — owing to case law that dates from 1924." That case law "means financial services companies can't publicly identify an ...

Tasha26 writes "A former town Mayor, Colin Elsbury, made legal history by being the first Brit to pay damages for libel on Twitter. His tweet on polling day said 'It's not in our nature to deride our opponents however Eddie ...

A judge presiding over the US government’s request for Twitter records relating to associates of Wikileaks has denied a motion to throw out the ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accepted the proposed settlement with Twitter over its 2009 security breaches. The settlement was first proposed in mid-2010 ...

It all started with Nathon Fillion’s simple dream of winning the California Lottery, buying the rights to Firefly, and giving them back to Joss Whedon. This quickly blossomed into an online campaign to make it happen through fan support. Just ...

If Nathan had to tweet about not sending money, then it’s a sure bet that people HAVE been sending him money. Nathan, or more likely Nathan’s assistant or publicist have probably had the “Santa’s Letters” type mail drop with money and checks ...

Last time I heard someone say “Amazeballs” was when I had sex with your mom (zing!). OK, Star Trek 2… is it happening? Well, short answer is yes. Fans have been waiting quite a while for a sequel to J.J. Abrams ...

Being a bad guy is easy - just write a book about sparkly vampires or produce a reality TV show. But to be a super villain, you need to set yourself apart from the crowd. Witless henchmen, a thirst for ...

Note: Obviously that isn't the whole graphic, you need to click RIGHT HERE NOW QUICK DO IT to see the whole thing. Facebook vs. Twitter: there can be only one. Just kidding, there can be more than one. Unless ...

An anonymous reader writes "A visualization of the network of retweets with the hashtag #jan25 at February 11 2011, at the time of the announcement of Mubarak's resignation, is available. The data was collected using Gephi connected to the Twitter ...

(article by nerdbastards contributor Sarah Moran @SarahThisIs) As if we didn’t need more reason to be completely obsessed with Felicia Day. Announced on USA Today and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog star and ‘The Guild ‘creator’s own Twitter account, Day has written ...

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It took awhile (is Twitter dead already? I have no idea), but we were finally able to score the Geekologie Twitter page from whoever started it. It wasn't easy, and many Bothans died in the process, but hopefully ...

The first week of the new year brought Apple users some new trials and tribulations: another iOS alarm bug left people waking up late, ...

It's commonly accepted that widespread national television helped smooth over many local US accents and standardized "proper" English usage; will services like Twitter, where ...

Despite rumors late last year that Tweetie for Mac was dead, it has lived to see another day in the form of Twitter's official ...

Want a pair of Twitter shoes? Don't ever talk to me again. How about a pair of Facebooks? Okay, those ones are actually pretty cool. NOT! Hoho, kickin' it 3rd grade style today! These ...