It’s just six seconds of video – but it has become big business over the last 12 months. The commercial world is claiming its share of the action on the social media app Vine.
Six seconds of video? That’s as ridiculous as writing a message in just 140 characters. It’ll never catch on…
Hundreds of protesters gather in Barton Moss, Greater Manchester to voice their anger over plans for fracking in the area. Channel 4 News charts the protest in tweets.
Ex-footballer Stan Collymore criticises Twitter for failing to combat racist and abusive tweets – hours after Olympian Beth Tweddle was the victim of a torrent of abuse during a Twitter Q&A.
Lord McAlpine, the former UK Conservative party deputy chairman dies at the age of 71 at his home in Italy, his family announces.
Two people in their 20s plead guilty to sending “menacing” tweets to Caroline Criado-Perez, who campaigned successfully to get a woman’s image on British banknotes.
From royal babies and twerking, to boy bands and Andy Murray: Twitter reveals the hot topics of 2013.
Journalists often use Twitter for information on breaking stories – but when the story of three women held in domestic “slavery” broke on Thursday, one social media user decided to play a prank.
Siobhan Kennedy
I was living in New York and working as a technology reporter for Reuters as one by one, the then internet giants of the day – Netscape, Commerce One, Ariba – all made their debuts on the Nasdaq.
It was the most hotly awaited public offering since Facebook – and as soon as the social media site Twitter began trading, the value of its shares shot up, valuing the firm at more than $31 billion.
As Twitter shares float on the New York stock exchange, the twitterati transmitted the event… through tweets, of course.
As One Direction are ranked more influential on Twitter than David Cameron and Nigel Farage, Channel 4 News looks at the role of influence and power in social media.
Beheading? Yes. Breastfeeding? No. Facebook is on thin ice by allowing videos of beheading. The problem is that it has become more than just a social network, and is effectively a media organisation.
Beheading? Yes. Breastfeeding? No. Facebook is on thin ice by allowing videos of beheading. The problem is that it has become more than just a social network, and is effectively a media organisation.
On the same day British Gas announces that energy bills will rise by ten per cent, it launches a question and answer campaign for its customers on Twitter. But it perhaps hasn’t gone quite to plan.