The word "tweet" has been around for quite some time, as it historically refers to that whistling sound some birds do. However, the Oxford English Dictionary is now adding it as a noun and verb, describing it as meaning "to post (a message, item of information, etc.) on Twitter." Read More >>

The hotbed of angst and bitterness that is your average local council meeting will now be fully open to the public, with Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Local Government, demanding local councillors let themselves be photographed, filmed and tweeted about while doing their business. Read More >>

Originally limited to advertisers upon launching in 2011, Twitter Analytics has finally opened its stat-tracking doors to all users. Although without a formal announcement, there's always the possibility that it's all a glitch—in which case, get it while it's hot/broken. Read More >>

A survey attempting to match the rise of social networks with the higher levels of narcissism seen in society has found a pretty strong dividing line between age groups, with younger users favouring Twitter and middle-aged narcissists preferring to use Facebook to illustrate and tell everyone how great they are. Read More >>

That some grown-up people have been acting rather childishly on Twitter isn't really news, seeing as it happens approximately 50 trillion times an hour. But when it's Samsung and HTC having a pop at each other in public, it's a little more interesting. Read More >>

TweetDeck is pushing out an update today! But something went wrong at Twitter HQ, and nobody bothered to review the post announcing the update before it went live. Don't tell Christina. She's gonna be freaking LIVID. Read More >>

You're only supposed to be able to upload a six-second clip to Vine—but somehow yesterday sixteen-year-old Will Smidlein managed to bypass that rule and post the whole of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". Uh, well done? Read More >>

Vine, the very popular way to splice together six-second video vignettes, is now available for Android. Here's the Google Play link, which doesn't appear to be live just yet. Read More >>

There are only so many place you can tweet from, and Twitter's been diligently indexing them all. These new visualisations from the Twitter team organised for this sort of thing show the history of all geo-tagged tweets since 2009 (when the feature was born) by location. We're talking billions of them. Read More >>

Everyone has felt that feeling. You posted something on Facebook that pissed off a friend. You Instagrammed a mortifying picture of your sister. They're pissed. How do you smooth things over? Read More >>

Probably while they're all sleeping, the closest thing the Anonymous collective has to an official Twitter account got hacked. @YourAnonNews is currently spouting lots of crap about "Jimmies" and "Rustling". It seems the hacker group known as the Rustle League hacked Anonymous. How does it feel to have the boot on the other foot, eh, Anonymous? Read More >>

I don't even... This is just... I can't believe... okay. Breathe. Some guy used Vine and Twitter to propose to his girlfriend. As in he recorded a six second Vine video (selfie?) asking her to marry him, with a ring and everything. She didn't say no. Read More >>

It's about damn time. After an endless, occasionally entertaining — but mostly disconcerting — string of high-profile hacks, Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to verify that yes, it is, in fact, you logging in. Read More >>

A mouthy lady driver has been shamed into deleting her entire Twitter account, after police began investigating her proud claim to have knocked a cyclist off his bike in Norwich. Read More >>

Poor old HTC would appear to be in a bit of internal turmoil, despite the stacks of praise heaped upon its recent HTC One model. Several high-profile staff have left the mobile maker, with one taking to Twitter to urge his mates still left at the business to walk out. Read More >>