Facebook causes Americans more stress than any other social network. But it's also the network with the most positive effect on our moods.
Governments want more of your data, but copyright holders are getting slightly less active in requesting tweet takedowns.
Today, Pope Benedict XVI asked Catholics to spread the word on Twitter and other social networking sites like Instagram and Tumblr to convert atheists to the faith, 140 characters at a time.
I guess that's what benefits like paying your spouse for 10 years after your death will do for you.
Photographer Daniel Morel took riveting photos of the devastation caused by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. So riveting that the Agence France-Presse took them off Twitter and actually uploaded them to Getty Images.
I guess we're just not as advanced as we think we are. Or, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
The Associated Press is running a sponsored tweets campaign. But the news company is not paying Twitter any money, and the sponsored tweets are not the kind of sponsored tweets that we're used to.
In every year, there are winners and losers: companies, devices, operating systems. Here's our look at some of the biggest successes and failures of 2012.
Perhaps it was the most re-tweeted tweet in history. Or the photo with the most Facebook likes ever. Most likely, it's a history of consistently engaging via social media.
Twitter shook up the top brass a little today, transitioning current Chief Financial Officer Ali Rowghani to the top operating role and naming former Zynga treasurer Mike Gupta as the company's new CFO.
in with the smart and out with the stupid -- Twitter search, that is.
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom played a dicey game of semantics in order to expedite the close of the deal between his company and Facebook.
Guest Post While it may seem like a great idea, focusing all your attention to build a presence on a single social network could actually be a huge risk.
The Yahoo-owned Flickr, alongside the release of a brand new app for iPhone, threw in support for Twitter Cards this morning, bringing its newly filtered captures to tweets near you.
Twitter just released new data about its user interactions from 2012 -- all on a brand new website.
Embroiled in a photo turf war with Twitter, Instagram's deadly weapon of choice is a revamped iOS application that allows users to snap better, more stylized shots.
In a move that's just short of waving a big blue flag with an "F" on it, social photo sharing service Instagram made a decision to de-emphasize its relationship with Twitter recently.
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.
Twitter has added localized trends for 100 new cities, improving its capability to show people the buzziest news and hashtags being discussed on the information network in locations around the world.
'Tis the season for reflection -- through data crunching, of course! The folks at AddThis have tallied a year's worth of social shares to uncover 2012's biggest takeaways.
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