Who’s tracking you online? This app can tell you – and stop them
As companies like Facebook and Google bulk up their tracking efforts, apps like Disconnect pop up to combat invasive data collecting.
These Pulitzer prizes winners reveal how media will never be the same
Some of the best journalism is now digital and social - and what happens online is an integral part of the story.
Athletes say the dumbest things online, so the NFL is playing big brother
Athletes can't always be trusted to say the right things on social media so the NFL is taking it upon themselves to monitor its players' accounts.
The IRS may be snooping through Facebook and Twitter to nab tax evaders
The IRS is reportedly using social media to its advantage by digging through flagged tax evaders' accounts.
Twitter who? New app turns Wikipedia into a real time news source
Twitter and other social networks are de facto platforms for discovering breaking news, but add Wikipedia to that list with Wikipedia Live Monitor.
Party foul! Viral Snapchat ruins college kegger
A smartphone prank lead to students frantically abandoning illegal booze.
Re-live the Titanic sinking in real-time via Twitter
The History Press created a live-tweeting account discussing the Titanic sinking in full detail, giving history nuts on Twitter something to obsess over.
Check out how many of the Twitter elite’s followers are fake
Check out how many of your favorite celebrities have (at least) thousands of faux Twitter followers.
How social media has changed what it means to be a celebrity
All the Twitter's a stage, and all the tweeters are potential celebrities...and paparazzi.
Instagram your way to meeting Bieber, and other social ways to win this week
These contests all want your social media content, and they're willing to give you something for it.
Want to know everything about your Twitter followers? Well you can – for a price
Demographics Pro shows you nearly every detail about your Twitter followers, competitors, or hashtags, down to salaries, ethnicity, and occupations.
According to Twitter, happiness may be a plane ride away
Research based on Twitter finds a connection between where you are and how happy you are.
Twitter charity organization Twestival relaunches as a year-long event
Twestival is a Twitter-based charity organizing service shaking things up in 2013.
Want to Vine your way to a job? This woman did
Vine is the latest social app to take the networking world by storm. Dawn Siff made it work for her by creating a unique resume with the app.
Instagram and Vine to the rescue in the case of the Lone Star stabber
In the midst of the horrific news this morning, one Instagram users took it on himself to nab the stabbing suspect. Other students left warnings on Vine.
Who won the Internet at last night’s Shorty Awards
Many public figures use social media as a creative means to get their messages across. The fifth Shorty Awards gave kudos to the Web's best and brightest.
Facebook is the new Twitter (at least, it wants to be)
The two heavyweights of social media are indisputably Facebook and Twitter - and the former is starting to look more and more like its real-time competitor.
Can you buy Twitter legitimacy? A look inside the fake follower business
People are turning to all sorts of services to boost their Twitter followers. Do any of them work?
Vine adds trending hashtags; will they be annoying or useful?
Vine just took its hashtags to the next level. But will it help or hurt the fledgling app?
Facebook pulls the Facebook Home leak, says we’ll all just have to wait
Hey, here's a way to get Facebook Home before April 12! Oh wait, never mind, Facebook shut it down.
Proposed amendment fails, employers still can’t ask for you Facebook passwords
A bill may block employers from asking for your social media passwords, but a now withdrawn amendment to the bill threatened the privacy of employees.
Hacker group Anonymous sets its sights on North Korea, vandalizes Twitter and Flickr accounts
Hacktivist group Anonymous is out to get institutions that are bad, bad, bad. Its latest target is North Korea and its social media accounts and websites.
No reservations: How a restaurant took social media’s power back into its hands
Restaurants are tired of customers ruining their Web reps with Yelp complains. Instead, they're using social media for more than just gratuitous promotion.
The new Twitter Cards are about to change the way you look at Twitter
Twitter wants to woo back developers on its own terms with the announcement of new Twitter Cards for displaying apps, galleries, and products.
SEC rules in favor of Netflix CEO’s Facebook post, execs now free to overshare
If your company is doing amazingly well, you may announce it on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms...just let your investors know first.
To Russia with Internet restrictions: Russia’s child-safety plan is more censorship than good sense
New Russian regulations block sites that might endanger children. But do they go too far?
Vine is starting to get DMCA complaints … so maybe don’t upload that concert footage
Twitter, just three months after Vine's launch, is facing its first DMCA copyright complaint by Prince's record label NPG Records.
Welcome to the all-knowing, very searchable, saturated world of the hashtag
A hashtag's value all depends on how social networks choose to use them.
Scary statistics show that sex offenders are taking over social media
The world is full of all kinds of sexual criminals, and they're all honing in on sites like Twitter and Facebook for their next victim.
The New York Times’ non-terrible April Fools’ joke is a bot that turns journalism into poetry
A haiku-spewing robot has poetry fans in a tizzy. But it's not an April Fool's joke.
April Fools 2013 Roundup: YouTube closes, Twttr eliminates vowels, and more
Internet rules say April 1 should not go by without a slew of Internet pranks to fool and make everybody laugh. Enjoy our list of the best gags this year.
The opus that is R. Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet’ gets new life thanks to social media
If you love R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" hip-hopera, a new interactive soundboard uses Facebook, Twitter and other social media to unlock extra fun.