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 [...]

Indians’ Chris Perez has converted six of eight save opportunities.(Photo: David Richard, USA TODAY Sports)

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 [...]

You’re the man now, dawg Simon! The only man!

It what promises to be the most estrogen-filled season yet, Kelly Rowland Paulina Rubio were just named new judges on X Factor.

While we thought these two would wind up sitting beside Demi Lovato [...]

Skim the zoomed-out surface of Humboldt State University’s alarming “Hate Map” and you’ll encounter angry clouds of bright red framed by smears of gloomy blue, as if some giant freak storm were raining down hell across the the United States.

(MORE: Star Wars and Doctor Who Fans Clash at Sci-Fi [...]

Miguel was Twitter’s most-mentioned artist during Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards.

After will.i.am’s performance of ‘#thatPOWER’ with Justin Bieber, host Tracy Morgan commented, “I didn’t know will.i.am was Amish.”(Photo: Ethan Miller, Getty Images)

Justin Bieber and will.i.am’s high-tech production of #thatPOWER gave the Billboard Music Awards its most-discussed Twitter moment Sunday.

The duet caused conversation [...]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends central Idaho’s Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site heisted his handle.

Leonard Barshack, who in the 1990s founded the Internet email listing service Bigfoot, is suing Twitter and the Sun Valley Co., demanding they return the handle [...]

Bad news for those of you eagerly anticipating “We Saw Your Boobs: Part Two.” Seth MacFarlane will not reprise his role as the host of the Academy Awards next March, the comedian announced on his Twitter account Monday.

“Traumatized critics exhale: I’m unable to do the Oscars again. Tried to make it work schedule-wise, but [...]

Tamara Buechler, a physician at the Mayo Clinic, understands better than most expectant mothers the risks of delivering twins two months before they are due. But, when she was expecting, Buechler knew that she might not have a choice. Halfway into what she had hoped would be an uneventful pregnancy three years [...]

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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David Warner‘s alleged Twitter outburst on Saturday has resulted in the batsman being reported for ‘unbecoming behaviour’ by Cricket Australia. In a media release, Cricket Australia stated that Warner had breached the Code of Behaviour and he would be expected to attend a disciplinary [...]

It seems we can definitely rule out a Bill Goldberg return, with the star recently lashing out against WWE and Triple H on his official Twitter account. 

Bill Goldberg, who found fame in WCW as a monster babyface, signed with WWE in early 2003 to much fanfare and attention.

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Saudi Arabia currently ranks second among the world’s fastest growing countries on Twitter, with a 42-percent increase in the number of account holders after Indonesia, which rose to 44 percent, according to GlobalWebIndex’s ‘Stream Social: Quarterly Social Platforms Update.’
“Twitter appeals to the Saudi user. He just wants to say what is on [...]

The Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 5-2 Sunday afternoon at TD Garden and now take the 2-0 lead in the 2013 Eastern Conference Semifinals as the series shifts back to Madison Square Garden.

While New York deserves immense credit for playing intense hockey throughout the game, the bounces were [...]

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Eva is handling the unbelievable embarrassment of showing the world she went out without underwear on May 18 with total grace — and humor!

This is how it’s done. Eva Longoria took to Twitter on May 19 [...]

Add the Financial Times to the growing list of media companies whose websites or Twitter accounts were hijacked by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army.

On Friday, both the paper’s Tech Blog and several of its Twitter accounts were seized by the group. The SEA used its unauthorized access to publish 12 [...]

A light in the darkness?

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Life becomes more meaningful when someone from a long way away reflects your own thoughts.

It makes you feel less alone, less forlorn on your island of one.

I was, therefore, lifted to heights previously unimagined [...]

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