Women dominate social media

Posted - 29th July 2010 in Social Media

New study reveals female social media use across the globe.

by Tom Mason

Tweet Media coming to Twitter

Posted - 28th July 2010 in Social Media

Embedded video and photographs tested on Twitter according to reports.

by Tom Mason

Stars urged kids to avoid Facebook

Posted - 26th July 2010 in Social Media

Hollywood stars George Clooney and Miley Cyrus have criticised social media websites after the kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl.

by Michael Thornton

Twitter data centre announced

Posted - 23rd July 2010 in Social Media

New technical infrastructure aims to reduce the site's downtime.

by Tom Mason

New Facebook promotion celebrates 500m users

Posted - 19th July 2010 in Social Media

Social media website Facebook will be sharing Facebook Stories as part of its celebrations for reaching 500 million users.

by Michael Thornton

Old Spice social campaign applauded

Posted - 16th July 2010 in Social Media

Real-time social media marketing campaign praised by industry leaders.

by Tom Mason

Raoul Moat Facebook page raises censorship issues

Posted - 15th July 2010 in Social Media

A Facebook fan page dedicated to killer Raoul Moat will not be removed, the social networking website has announced.

by Michael Thornton

TweetDeck talks money

Posted - 13th July 2010 in Social Media

TweetDeck has hinted that generating money will become a priority after celebrating its second anniversary.

by Richard Frost

theEword to interview top Manchester account

Posted - 9th July 2010 in Social Media

Join theEword on Twitter from 2:30pm for an exclusive interview with the top Manchester Twitter account.

by Tom Mason

Lady Gaga most popular living person on Facebook

Posted - 6th July 2010 in Social Media

Lady Gaga is Facebook's most popular living user after surpassing the 10m friends mark this week.

by Michael Thornton

Manchester Twitter Report published

Posted - 5th July 2010 in Social Media

A landmark report from theEword reveals how Manchester uses Twitter.

by Richard Frost

Teenagers hint at Facebook fatigue

Posted - 30th June 2010 in Social Media

New research suggests that US teenagers may be growing tired of Facebook.

by Richard Frost

Society has Facebook on the brain, according to experts

Posted - 28th June 2010 in Social Media

Studies suggest social media websites can change how society thinks.

by Michael Thornton

Facebook poses threat to adopted children

Posted - 21st June 2010 in Social Media

Facebook reportedly poses a risk to adopted children by making it easy to find their estranged parents.

by Michael Thornton

Twitter launches Promoted Tweets

Posted - 17th June 2010 in Social Media

New advertising platform allows companies to pay for tweets to be prioritised in searches and trending topics.

by Carli Harris

MTV starts search for Twitter Jockey

Posted - 15th June 2010 in Social Media

MTV is on the lookout for its first Twitter Jockey, posting for the network on the popular micro-blogging website.

by Michael Thornton

Twitter suffers from extended downtime

Posted - 10th June 2010 in Social Media

Popular social networking site goes down. Engineers blame network glitch for delayed timelines.

by Carli Harris

Facebook founder answers privacy questions

Posted - 4th June 2010 in Social Media

Mark Zuckerberg's appearance at the Los Angeles D8 conference comes under fire from bloggers.

by Tom Mason

Facebook to roll out new privacy settings

Posted - 26th May 2010 in Social Media

Facebook bosses confess they "missed the mark" with its privacy policy and will review how it deals with personal information.

by Michael Thornton

Upstarts look to topple Facebook

Posted - 24th May 2010 in Social Media

The new generation of social networking websites have made overtaking Facebook top priority.

by Michael Thornton

UK social media in figures

Posted - 21st May 2010 in Social Media

theEword takes a closer look at the social media revolution as Ofcom publishes its latest report on the use of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

by Richard Frost

Facebook and FarmVille makers reach deal

Posted - 20th May 2010 in Social Media

Zynga, the makers of the popular FarmVille game, have signed a five-year partnership with the social networking giant.

by Tom Mason

YouTube celebrates 2 billion viewers

Posted - 17th May 2010 in Social Media

Google-owned YouTube announces 2 billion viewers per day.

by Tom Mason

Twitter bug resolved

Posted - 11th May 2010 in Social Media

A Twitter bug temporarily undermined the follower system in an embarrassing episode for the site.

by Richard Frost

Facebook to launch location feature

Posted - 7th May 2010 in Social Media

Facebook is set to launch a 'geo-tagging' feature according to reports from social media site Mashable.

by Tom Mason

Facebook generation creating new language

Posted - 27th April 2010 in Social Media

Research shows young people using social networking sites have created their own language to keep their private lives secret.

by Richard Frost

Twitter comes to aid of Nick Clegg

Posted - 23rd April 2010 in Social Media

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has received the backing of Twitter users after newspaper articles slammed him this week.

by Richard Frost

Facebook dominates social media traffic

Posted - 21st April 2010 in Social Media

Facebook is shown to dominate social media traffic with almost twice the volume of rival site MySpace.

by Carli Harris

Social media security warning

Posted - 20th April 2010 in Social Media

Information on social media sites is increasingly being used for cybercrime, according to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report.

by Richard Frost

Google launches Follow Finder for Twitter

Posted - 16th April 2010 in Social Media

The Chirp Twitter developer conference saw the announcement of new follower suggestion tool.

by Carli Harris