Yahoo newsfeed’s latest ingredient: Embedded tweets

For the second time in the last month, Yahoo is making some changes to its newsfeed that will presumably attempt to boost interest and improve the overall experience of reading the news.

Twitter’s video-sharing Vine exploded 200% last month

"We may be witnessing the rise of Twitter's recently acquired Vine," Compete.com's Conor O'Mahony said.

Why two-factor authentication wouldn’t have saved the AP from getting hacked

While two-factor authentication is a great extra barrier between hackers and you, it wouldn't have stopped the phishing attack that led to the hack on the AP's Twitter account.

At seven years old, how has Twitter affected your life?

It's been seven years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first tweet (back when it was called Twttr).

Want to see the market potential of Vine? Check out Mass Relevance’s new socially driven digital mosaic

Mass Relevance, a startup that brings calm to a crazy sea of social activity, is rolling out a new 'Digital Mosaic' product today at SXSW that essentially builds an image using tweets, Facebook updates, photos, and even Vine videos.

The Vatican just deleted all of Pope Benedict XVI’s tweets

In a strange social media move, the Vatican has deleted all of the tweets sent from Pope Benedict XVI's @Pontifex account.

Twitter inches closer to media companies with new ‘Twitter TV Book’

In yet another example of how Twitter is positioning itself as media/entertainment platform, the social network released a report today showcasing the tweeting habits of people while watching television in the UK.

Prepare to be extra pithy! Twitter to subtract 2 characters for tweets with links

Time to brush up on your shorthand, because come February, you're going to have two less characters to tweet with when you share links on Twitter.

The 3 best tweets from Obama’s Twitter town hall

President Barack Obama had a little fun today on Twitter despite spending most of his time talking about serious topics such as the looming fiscal cliff and middle-class tax cuts.

Big data: a retailer’s guide to likes, tweets, reviews, customer data, and basically everything else (infographic)

Many retailers are using old dumb marketing techniques in a new smart world. And, therefore, missing out on sales.

Oprah loves her Surface so much, she used an iPad to tweet about it

Unfortunately, sending a tweet about the Microsoft Surface via an Apple iPad isn't the most convincing way to make an endorsement.

Israel says people shouldn’t share bombed locations on social media

The Israeli Defense Forces is asking civilians not to tweet or Instagram photos or description of bombed sites, according to blog Yid with Lid, for fear that Hamas military officials may be able to locate sensitive IDF zones in the meta data.

Obama wins and Twitter goes nuts, setting new tweets per minute record of 327K

Twitter loves Obama.

Twitter and Fox teaming up to provide social election coverage (updated)

For tomorrow's presidential election, Twitter has partnered up with Fox News, representing the first time the two have ever come together on a social media partnership.

New Twitter policy for offending tweets: “withhold” instead of remove

This is in addition to Twitter's already-existing policies of posting takedowns at Chilling Effects and per-country censorship of locally offensive content.

Twitter expands expanded tweets — so you never have to leave

Imagine you could get everything you needed from the online world — news, photos, videos, music, movie trailers, product information — without ever having to leave Twitter. That would make Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey very, very happy, and today, we’re …

Hey Facebook, Twitter is testing its own ‘Like’ button (and changing ‘favorites’ to ‘Stars’)

A sprinkling of Twitter users have posted screenshots about the new Like and Star buttons, but the company hasn't made an official announcement about them.

Tweets equal dollars for Obama and Romney, according to Twitter

Tweets equal dollars, according to Twitter.