Twitter wants you to keep it short and tweet when you use URLs
Twitter has changed up the number of tweets that link-including tweets support to 117 or 118 characters
Quench your morbid curiosity with The Tweet Hereafter
The Tweet Hereafter recaps and memorializes the last tweets of Twitter users before their untimely deaths.
Researchers can tell the difference between tweets from men and women
Researchers used Twitter to decipher the differences in speech between the male and female gender.
Visual analytics platform Curalate antes up and adds Instagram support
Curalate, which has provided visual analytics services for Pinterest, has followed through on its promise and added support for Instagram.
Mutex.me finds coveted sales on this season’s hottest luxury fashions
Mutex.me curates the most up-to-date sales on the top luxury brands from the leading department stores and fashion e-commerce sites.
New Jersey Assemblyman is a lesson in selective Facebook Liking
New Jersey Assemblyman, Charles Mainor, had another social media fall out, this time for his interest in a couple of questionable Facebook pages.
How to delete that regrettable Twitter Direct Message before someone sees it
Deleting an embarrassing DM on Twitter is luckily as simple as clicking "delete."
The Facebook News Feed is running out of room
Despite the limited space, Facebook is getting creative and testing out multi-column advertising modules in its News Feed.
Facebook ‘s VP nearly confirms Facebook is working on auto-play video ads
Facebook's VP confirmed that Facebook is figuring out video advertising, but it's not settled on how to implement it without ruining the user experience.
Facebook says its engineers’ computers were hacked – last month
Laptops of Facebook engineers were infected with malware hidden in a Java exploit. The vulnerability has been patched and user data hasn't been compromised.
Facebook rolls out ability to promote friend’s posts
Facebook added the option to promote your own posts for a fee, and now it's gradually rolling out the option to promote your friend's posts.
Facebook explains how minors are getting special treatment when it comes to Graph Search
Facebook Graph Search gives users a revealing and sometimes embarassing look at other users, but Facebook has some measures in place to protect minors.
Pew study digs into what social media users looked like in 2012
Pew studied Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram to get a better look at what types of users were on these social networks in 2012.
Pot, meet kettle: The user that filed the lawsuit against Instagram is still using her account
Instagram requested that the class action lawsuit over its changed terms of service be thrown out in light of recent facts about the plaintiff.
Twitter API will get language detection and ‘top tweets’ filtering
Twitter's latest inclusion to its API adds language detection and filters for "high value" tweets.
People use social networks to cheat; ‘Shocking!’ says no one
Studies show that cheaters online will open a new social media account, and couples are increasingly sharing their login info with each other.
Facebook exec offers a 2013 forecast, and it is full of partnership deals
Facebook’s Dan Rose at the D:Dive Conference gave a glimpse of what's to come with Facebook in 2013, which includes books, television, and fitness apps.
Snapchat is testing self-destruct videos for Android
Snapchat is rounding out its core features across operating systems, with the testing of self-destructing videos in its Android apps.
American Express and Twitter partner to sell you deals via hashtags
American Express has partnered with Twitter to sell products at a deal using the social network.
Twitter makes a case for mobile advertising, but leaves out key details
Twitter published encouraging research indicating that its mobile app garners far better engagement than its desktop app, but left out the important facts.
Flickr privacy flub exposes private photos for three weeks
Privacy settings on some Flickr photos had been changed, which Flickr chalks up to a bug, for three weeks. The bug has since been patched.
Raytheon’s RIOT tracks social media users, predicts their next move
Raytheon has developed analytics that tracks and analyzes social media users to make predictions like whether or not an individual is a security threat.
Twitter can haz Lolcat speak?
Twitter has quietly added a Lolcatz language option, which currently is in beta mode.
Irish privacy regulators confirm Facebook wiped facial recognition data in Europe
The Irish and German DPC have independently confirmed that Facebook's facial recognition tech and all data collected using the tech was deleted.
Facebook’s Connect outage begs the question, is the Internet too connected?
Facebook Connect took out all if not most Facebook integrated Websites and the issue sheds light on the inherent dangers of today's connected Internet.
Search Graph who? Twitter now displaying tweets older than one week in search results
Starting today Twitter's search results will display tweets older than one week, and rounds out the features needed for a full-fledged search engine.
Escort services using Facebook to recruit
Facebook is a haven for recruiters, even of the unwanted kind from escort services - including one looking for minors.