All posts tagged "Twitter"

A 14-year old girl has been arrested after sending a hoax tweet to American Airlines, describing herself as a member of Al-Qaeda.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Facebook plans to bring Twitter-style hashtags to the social network. Facebook has neither confirmed nor denied it, but it looks as though we just may be seeing this feature in the near future.

One cool feature of social media is that you can often link accounts together to make posting across several sites easier. For some, though, the idea is better than the reality and they want to disconnect these social media sites from each other. Sometimes, however, disconnecting isn’t as obvious as it seems.

Timothy Bradly won a controversial split decision over Manny Pacquiao Saturday night, spurring outraged boxing fans to turn to Twitter to express their disgust. Below is a collection of some of the outraged tweets that occurred immediately after the decision, from other boxers, sportscasters, and casual fans.

Twitter is all about following and gaining followers. Though I’m rather generous in my follow-back protocol, I don’t subscribe to the #autofollow mentality. After toying with that concept for a while, I realized that following everyone back leads to a cluttered, spammy timeline that degrades the quality of Twitter. Just because a...