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Rutland in the Midlands is hit by the UK’s biggest earthquake this year, prompting a wave of jokes about the “earth moving”. But how does this seismic activity compare with other great British quakes?

It is not just protest groups using social media nowadays: governments are getting in on the act – and in unstable eastern Ukraine, Facebook has become a tool of conflict.

Forget exploding cigars. The latest from the fractious relationship between the United States and Cuba brings things into the 21st century: via social networking.

Employees of software company Mozilla, best known for its Firefox internet browser, launch a Twitter campaign asking new chief executive Brendan Eich to step down over his stance on gay marriage.

First Twitter, now YouTube – the Turkish prime minister blocks the video-sharing site after what he called the “villainous” leak of a secret recording of top security officials on the site.

The Twitter account of Sardar Ahmad, killed in the attack on the Serena hotel in Kabul, is being used to keep memories of the Afghan journalist alive and to update people on the health of his son.

The Turkish government’s decision to ban access to Twitter comes as little surprise, writes Niall Finn, a student in Ankara.

Turkey blocks access to Twitter days before elections after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who is battling a corruption scandal that has been aired on the site, vowed to “wipe (it) out”.

The Conservatives have been hit with a Twitter “takedown” after a “patronising” advert on how the Budget 2014’s beer and bingo cuts help “hardworking people”.

On the 25th birthday of the world wide web, Tim Berners Lee invites people to imagine a world without the internet and Channel 4 News asks how you think life would be different.

On Monday 17 February, Channel 4 News launches a new online show where you ask the questions. Our first guest is Alex Brooker from The Jump and The Last Leg, ahead of the Sochi Winter Paralympics.

NekNominate is the drinking game that happens online instead of the pub. But after being linked to two deaths in Ireland, the backlash has already started.