There’s a really good reason Instagram videos are 15 seconds long
Instagram now offers video recording, but there's a good financial reason that its videos can be recorded for up to 15 seconds.
5 million Instagram videos were shared in the first 24 hours
A whopping 5 million video clips were shared on Instagram in the first 24 hours and 40 hours of video per minute.
Sure, Instagram video is cool, but now you can turn Vines into animated GIFs
Even though it's being overshadowed by Instagram video, Vine still has some tricks up its sleeve - and a new service lets you turn Vines into GIFs.
Vine gets an unofficial search engine, Vinecrawler
Vinecrawler is Vine's unofficial and unsanctioned search engine, and content discovery app rolled into one service.
Twitter working on new feature to help discover people your friends are following
Twitter has a new feature in mind to drive people-discovery in a way that surfaces the users a group of your friends may have suddenly followed at once.
‘Tweet’ is now officially a word in the Oxford English Dictionary
The widespread use of the term 'tweet' has caused the British dictionary to expand its definition of the word, despite its 10-year rule.
Is Facebook unveiling Instagram for video on June 20?
We thought that Facebook was unveiling a RSS reader on June 20, but reports suggest that coffee with the press might have to do with Instagram for video.
Twitter, abusing the #asksnowden Q&A is why we can’t have nice things
Twitter, we had the invitation to ask Edward Snowden anything we wanted. And this is what we did with it.
Turns out Americans aren’t the most addicted Starbucks-drinking, social users in the world
Although Facebook and Twitter started in the U.S., other countries are even more fixated on social media than Americans.
#Followme: Twitter and Vizify partner to bring some visual life to your text-based tweets
Twitter and Vizify are partnering to let people take their social media profiles to the next level.
Twitter quietly rolls out its free, native analytics feature
Twitter quietly launched its own analytics tool, a free, built-in option that will likely crowd some of the third party competitors out.
Facebook formally introduces hashtags – let the discovery begin
Facebook now has hashtags. You can finally sift through your gigantic News Feed much easier.
Here’s proof that you probably won’t finish this article
Most people don't actually read articles top to bottom, and despite having just a small grasp of the author's point, readers will tweet anyway.
China allowing Twitter and Facebook access! Oh wait … not quite
Conference participants are being allowed to tweet and update Facebook, but the permission comes with quite a few caveats.
Here’s why you shouldn’t be surprised that people share more Vines than Instagrams on Twitter
If you look at how often they're getting shared on Twitter, Vine appears more popular than Instagram. But you shouldn't use Twitter as a barometer.
Vine may not be releasing an API soon, but here’s how to access it
Can't wait to get your hands on the Vine API? Here's a workaround.
Arrested for tweeting in Turkey: The social media machine of the #Occupygezi movement
It's hard to call Twitter and Facebook frivolous when they're crucial organizing and awareness-building tools.
It’s time to dust the cobwebs and drunk college pics off your social media profiles
Your social profiles have amassed quite a bit of content - and if you've had them for awhile, it's time to start cleaning the digital memories out.
18 questions you need to ask yourself before uploading that photo
Photo-sharing is one of the greatest things that's happened to the Web - but before you post, ask yourself these questions.
This tool helps you tweet when your followers are actually listening
Buffer's FollowerWonk integration makes the app smarter and helps schedule tweets for when your followers are the most active.
16-year-old apologizes for breaking Vine with epic Rickroll
Twitter got Rickrolled by a Vine hack a 16-year-old created.
Twitter turns out to be a veritable treasure trove of vaccine data
If Twitter is any indication of popular opinion, the anti-vaccine movement is dying down.
New study says people still don’t understand their online lives can cost them their real jobs
If you're wondering whether you should self-censor when looking for a job, you probably should.
WTF Internet? The marriage you proposed on Vine is more doomed than MySpace
WTF, Internet? This week's Web indiscretion comes courtesy of the horrible social media proposal trend.
Hey constant Twitter profile updaters, this new feature just made your life way easier
Twitter rolled out inline profile editing, which can now be done quickly and effortlessly directly from your profile information box.
More than an app: ‘Instagram is’ explores the community beneath the photos
We go inside and talk to director Paul Tellefsen about his Instagram documentary and how he feels about the intimate app.
Report by people who apparently don’t get it label Twitter users bad spellers
Twitter users are apparently the least literate on social media. Yikes or yawn?
Everything you need to know about your favorite day: Throwback Thursday (er, #tbt)
Before you go Instagramming those photos of four year old you, check out our complete guide to all things Throwback Thursday.
Now you can feel bad about not getting that verified check mark on Facebook, too
Facebook takes yet another page from Twitter's playbook with verification.
You can use your social media addiction to fuel a car
Your Facebook and Instagram likes, YouTube views, and Twitter mentions can now power a car. Welcome to the future.
Schools and testing organizations are starting to crack down on Twitter cheating
Smartphones are ubiquitous with students, so is cheating using social networks like Twitter, but administrators are putting a stop to this.
Stormtrooper cosplayer enters train station after anonymous murder tweet, things get weird
A Stormtrooper cosplayer walks into a train station in Japan right around the same time an anonymous tweeter threatened mass murder at that very station.
Thanks Twitter, but here’s everything that’s wrong with your two-factor authentication set-up
After a string of attacks on Twitter, the social network launched two-factor authentication, but is it enough?