Facebook became the first tech company implicated in the PRISM scandal to release a complete view of data requests received from U.S. authorities - secret PRISM requests and all - but Google and Twitter were quick to voice their displeasure with Face... [Full Article]
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, the world's No. 1 social network, is adopting the "hashtag," one of the most recognizable features of its younger rival Twitter, in a move to position its Web service as an im... [Full Article]
For a certain set on Twitter, there is only one story that matters this summer: the redemption of InkBoy, an anonymous trust-fund kid who blew his fortune way too early and is now working for a landscaping and maintenance company for the summer in th... [Full Article]
@HillaryClinton is finally here. The verified handle for the former Secretary of State (and, yes, potential 2016 contender) sent its first tweet on Monday afternoon at 12:44 Eastern, dropping references to the instantly viral Texts from Hillary Tumbl... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Twitter and WPP, the world's largest advertising agency, have combined forces to better focus advertising by using consumer data. The strategic partnership, announced on Thursday, means that WPP and its agencies such as GroupM and Ka... [Full Article]
A huge Guardian scoop this evening revealed confirmation of an indiscriminate phone records collection program, encompassing the calls of every Verizon customer on a daily basis - that's millions of Americans' phone data. And unsurprisingly... [Full Article]
By Clare Kane MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's national police force is using social network Twitter to track down criminals through jokey messages to citizens that has led to 300 arrests on drug charges in the past year and become a model for other f... [Full Article]
Freedom of speech is not high on the shifting priorities list of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And after he chastised "every kind of lie on" Twitter - and blamed almost everything else but his government for the outbreak of v... [Full Article]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter is working to resolve an outage that affected an unknown number of its users on Monday afternoon, the microblogging service said in a post that stopped short of specifying the problem. Users trying to click on trendi... [Full Article]