Facebook Lite looks like Twitter rival
Facebook appears to be upping the ante against Twitter with the launch of Facebook Lite, a simplified version of the site, which provides a stream of user updates and looks …
Tweetie for Mac brings excellent iPhone app to the desktop
While the iPhone-app market has gone ga-ga for Twitter, the social networking service that lets you send 140-character messages, Mac developers have been less prolific. Tweetie, from Atebits, has gone …
Web attack ‘aimed at one blogger’
A “massively co-ordinated” attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, it has been confirmed.
Twitter attack ‘could have been work of teenager in his bedroom’
The micro-blogging site went down for several hours on Thursday afternoon after falling victim to a “denial of service” attack.
Middle-aged learning to love social networking sites
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are no longer the preserve of the young with middle-aged people logging on to them in ever larger numbers, according to Ofcom, the …
Twitter now blocking bad URLs, but imperfectly
Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites. But security experts say that it can …
Twitter at the heart of new, cheap smartphones
The INQ Chat 3G and Mini 3G contain a Twitter client that will always be on after the initial log-in. Consumers can send Twitter messages, and updates are delivered straight …
Social Media can open our eyes to the value of physical life
Joining such powerful critics of the social media revolution as Oxford neuroscientist Baroness Lady Susan Greenfield, Archbishop Nichols noted the “transiency” and dehumanisation of social life on community networks like …