Tag: Twitter
Congressional staffers can no longer edit Wikipedia pages in their spare time at work without their changes being tweeted to the world. A new Twitter bot, @congressedits, tracks all anonymous edits to Wikipedia made from congressional IP ...
Johannesburg (AFP) – South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, on trial for killing his model girlfriend last year, has broken a long social networking silence with a series of tweets on love and pain. The first ...
Washington (AFP) – A campaign on Twitter denouncing misogyny has gathered thousands of followers after a bloody rampage in California by a 22-year-old virgin who said he was motivated by hatred of women. The hashtag ...
By Deanna Boyd, Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH, Texas — A storm is raging on Twitter after outgoing Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns asked The Weather Channel to show pictures of Fort Worth, not ...
By Jim Wyss, The Miami Herald BOGOTA, Colombia — In what might be the first step toward ending Venezuela’s two-month-long political crisis, the government and opposition leaders agreed Tuesday to begin formal peace talks that will ...
Washington (AFP) — The United States on Thursday denied it used its overseas aid agency to mount a covert operation on social media to incite unrest against Cuba’s communist leaders. But the U.S. Agency for ...
Ankara (AFP) — Turkey’s government faced growing pressure Thursday to quickly implement a top court order to unblock Twitter, which it had banned after corruption claims went viral on the social media site. Prime Minister ...
By Hector Becerra and Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The magnitude 5.1 La Habra earthquake that shook Southern California isn’t going into the seismic history books for its modest size and small ...
Ankara (AFP) — Turkey on Thursday banned video-sharing website YouTube, a week after blocking access to Twitter, after both were used to spread audio recordings implicating the prime minister in corruption, local media reported. Prime ...
By Jennifer Brooks, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota state Rep. Pat Garofalo apologized, then apologized some more for a weekend tweet that suggested that NBA teams are crime waves waiting to happen. “Let’s be ...
Washington (AFP) – The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for hacking some of U.S. broadcaster CNN’s social media accounts. The network said the compromised accounts included its main Facebook page, its Twitter page and blogs ...
Apparently Fox News was the victim of some hackers intent on sullying its until-now clean journalistic reputation over the holiday weekend: A series of alarming Twitter posts about President Obama appeared on Fox News’s Twitter ...
