Twitter and Facebook suffered service problems from hacker attacks on Thursday, raising speculation about a coordinated campaign against the networks.
In the final instalment of our three part chat with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, he discusses the site’s crucial moments so far.
I met up with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to discuss life at the company, and to find out what things are like inside the most talked-about start-up.
There’s no stopping the twitterati. Two University of Chicago undergraduates have landed a publishing deal to twitter the classics of literature.
Within minutes of people hearing reports of Michael Jackson being taken into hospital, the social networking site Twitter was buzzing with rumours.
When President Barack Obama wasn’t concerned with swatting flies or wrestling with Congress last week, he had something else on his mind.
Protesters in Iran on Monday used Twitter for battle cries and to spread word about clashes with police.
Thanks to Twitter, delegates to the World Economic Forum on Africa are spreading their own soundbites faster than journalists can file them.
Access to popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late on Tuesday afternoon.
Mike Massimino blasted off into space on Monday with six other crew members. But thanks to Twitter, the space veteran is staying posted from space.
The White House took a major leap into Web 2.0 on Friday, launching pages on social networks MySpace and Facebook and sending its first "tweets".
In a first for ANC spokesperson Jessie Duarte, she was allowed only 140 letters to reply to questions from the public in a session on Twitter.
After setting up Twitter’s most popular account to monitor breaking news, a London web developer has now sold ownership back to CNN.
Micro-blogging sensation Twitter plans to begin dabbling this year with ways to pump cash from the fast-growing free service.
The halls of the US Congress are alive with the sounds of Twitter.
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/ 20 January 2009
The web was alive with all things Obama ahead of his inauguration in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, as thousands made use of Twitter.
Wars have always been waged on all sorts of fronts. They have also, of course, always been about words.
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/ 14 December 2008
Circulation is dropping and readers are going online to get news for free, leaving the US newspaper industry awash in red ink.
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/ 28 November 2008
From the moment the first shots were fired, the internet provided a kaleidoscopic view of events in Mumbai. hose caught up in the mayhem rapidly provi
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/ 16 November 2008
It was a fireside chat for a wi-fi world. Barack Obama on Saturday launched his first regular weekly update to the American voters by YouTube.
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/ 25 October 2008
A draft US Army report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter and Global Positioning System maps and as potential terrorist tools.