NEW DELHI: UPA at 9 may not have done very much but it has certainly tweeted a lot. In the last 200 days (since the last reshuffle) the government may have been challenged to find convincing explanations for the surge of new controversies but that has not stopped it from stepping up its [...]

While most of Hollywood is shut down for the Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump and an Emmy-winning writer/producer on “Modern Family” are staying plenty busy on Twitter.

Danny Zuker, who also serves an exec producer on the hit ABC series, is one of TV’s most active creatives in the social media world

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It happened. Roger Federer, one of the last high-profile holdouts in tennis, has finally given in and joined Twitter.

A little (blue) bird told me that the place to be is @twitter, so here I am! http://t.co/8AQzBsC6ia—
Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) May 23, [...]

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It’s always good to stop and smell the roses, but sometimes you have to tweet to access them.

At least that’s how it works with an [...]

This week Twitter announced a bold expansion of its year-old Twitter Cards program, giving marketers a new way to directly obtain interested business leads via the social media service.

The new Lead Generation Card is squarely aimed at business tweeters, and it functions a lot like its name implies. Marketers [...]

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LONDON —British broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media outlet to have one of its Twitter feeds hacked by anonymous supporters of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, just days after Twitter beefed up security to prevent such attacks.

Twitter said on Wednesday that it had

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Twitter is creating a new way to make money for itself and media partners with a service called Twitter Amplify.  On its blog, Twitter said that the company “has further amplified the social TV conversation with real-time, dual-screen sponsorships and [...]

(CNN) — An upstate New York student said he got a three-day suspension for creating a controversial Twitter hashtag encouraging discussion of the school district’s failed budget.

Pat Brown, a senior at Cicero-North Syracuse High School, says he created #s**tCNSshouldcut to brainstorm ways his school could save money in response to [...]

Ashton Kutcher was the first to amass 1 million Twitter followers. But he’s not happy with what Twitter has become.

Ashton Kutcher was one of Twitter’s first break-through celebrities. But he thinks the social media platform is broken.

“For lack of a better verb, the media came and @$#%! [expletive deleted] it up,” [...]

Amanda Bynes has more than 1.1 million followers on Twitter – and they’ve seen her provocative Tweets about her dramatic looks, wanting to lose weight and photos of herself she sees online.

Well, she’s at it again following her arrest Thursday night for reckless endangerment, after allegedly throwing a bong out of her [...]

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After Katy insulted the rapper’s new song, Chief Keef took to Twitter to harshly slam Katy for her comment! Read on to find out what he said.

Another day, another Twitter feud. On May [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users’ accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins.

Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users will be able to enroll in a login verification program. For those who sign up, Twitter will send a six-digit code [...]

Some of Facebook’s (FB) core users have told researchers that their enthusiasm is waning with each visit to the social network. They get increasingly annoyed when their friends share inane details or broadcast the trivial drama of their lives. Furthermore, keeping up with the daily discourse on Facebook is becoming a chore [...]

Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account feels human again — but a very safe human.

Weiner first returned to Twitter last November, but his tweets lacked the, ahem, personality of his former social presence. Following his Tuesday announcement that he’s running for mayor of New York City, his tweets have been slightly less robotic, slightly more personal [...]

Learning a lesson from Facebook, Twitter has realized that the more it knows about us, the more valuable its ads can be, which is why it’s working on a “custom audiences” tool that uses email addresses from retailers to serve more “relevant” ads for marketers, sources tell Bloomberg’s  Douglas MacMillan and [...]

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Kim Dotcom says he doesn’t really want to sue Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other companies, but he really needs some help funding his defense.

The eclectic and controversial MegaUpload founder today said he invented two-factor authentication, [...]

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UCLA Health isn’t the first hospital to live-tweet a brain surgery, but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects [...]

(CNN) — After a series of high-profile and embarrassing hacks, Twitter has rolled out a new, two-step login to help users prevent unwanted intrusions.

The “two-factor” verification system, which will be optional, asks users to register a phone number, e-mail account and six-digit code [...]

Ashton Kutcher was the first to amass 1 million Twitter followers. But he’s not happy with what Twitter has become.

Ashton Kutcher was one of Twitter’s first break-through celebrities. But he thinks the social media platform is broken.

“For lack of a better verb, the media came and @$#%! [expletive deleted] it up,” [...]

For those inclined toward social media, using Twitter while watching television has become a ritual, with viewers commenting on everything from sports events to nighttime dramas. On Thursday, executives from Twitter discussed how they planned to capitalize on that activity by allowing advertisers to send ads to people [...]

Twitter just took another step towards helping brands generate revenues from the social network.

The company announced a new feature on Wednesday called the Lead Generation card, which gives businesses a way to register users and their emails for promotions or memberships directly within a tweet. When you click to expand the tweet, you’ll [...]

The Los Angeles Kings issued an apology on their Twitter account for a tweet made by Kevin Ryder, co-host of a KROQ morning radio show in Los Angeles, during Game 4.

Ryder tweeted, “Galiardi gets a penalty for running over Quick. Kopitar just got sexually assaulted in front of (Antti) Niemi.”

The [...]

The Australia batsman David Warner says he regrets his Twitter outburst against journalists, for which he was fined A$5,570 (£3,600), but says he was angry at his picture being used in an article on spot-fixing allegations in the India Premier League.

“Obviously [the match-fixing allegations are] disappointing … but for me to have [...]

We’ve confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its #Music service for the web, charts that we were accustomed to from the company We Are Hunted, that it acquired and now powers the service.

The charts are broken up into a few areas: the familiar genre breakdown, [...]

Select Twitter advertisers can now use the Lead Generation Card to sign up new customers.

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Twitter aims to turn the tweet stream into a more efficient marketing channel with the addition of a new Twitter Card that lets people quickly sign up for advertiser offers or [...]

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Check out the activity feed to see how the people you follow are interacting on Twitter (besides their tweets). Click Discover Activity to see a stream of actions by those you’re following, including favorites, follows and more. It’ll remind you of Facebook’s News Feed, and it’s a great way [...]

Jose Canseco spent Wednesday tweeting and deleting the personal information of a woman — including her name, telephone number, and work address — at the center of an incident in which the former baseball player was apparently questioned. “He’s being investigated for an alleged sexual assault, and that’s it,” a Las Vegas [...]

After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web. Unfortunately, it may not help shared accounts like big brands and news agencies where multiple people need to be able to log in and out [...]

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Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process.

The system, called Login Verification, gives users the option to have a verification code sent to their mobile phone every time they log in to Twitter. After a person enrolls, he or she will be able [...]

A little over a month ago, Twitter launched #Music, its take on what a truly social music discovery service might look like. It was strategic, leveraging Twitter’s enormous user base and vast amount of data, and thanks to a well-timed acquisition, saw some of the best product design the company has ever [...]

Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the editor of the politics blog The Dean’s Report and co-host of a new CNN podcast “The Big Three” that looks at the top [...]

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Last year, Twitter announced something it called the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA), which would keep patents in the hands of the designers and engineers that came up with the technology behind them. What this agreement serves as is a promise to only act on a patent for “defensive purposes.” Anything outside of that scope would [...]

In July 2005, I created Mashable.com on a WordPress blog. In 2007, I created the @mashable Twitter account. In the beginning it was a feed of my personal thoughts and actions. Mainly, I was posting what I was having for lunch. But when I started sharing links to Mashable articles, I saw real [...]

Here’s a lesson in what not to do online, straight from the Twitter for Dummies handbook.

Our story begins on Sunday in Norwich, England, where an organized cycling event called the Boudicca Sportive ride was taking place. Tensions between cyclists and automobile drivers are well documented the world over, but this Sunday tweet from a [...]

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CLEVELAND (AP) – Indians closer Chris Perez deactivated his Twitter account following two rough outings, and after receiving a slew of negative comments.

Perez took down @chrisperez54 on Monday, not long after the two-time All-Star gave up a ninth-inning [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are [...]

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Petitions have failed. Lawsuits have failed. Even campaign pledges from future presidents have failed. So now one Guantanamo Bay detainee is hoping that Twitter can [...]