The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that since the legislative session began Jan. 5, three Republican state representatives, one Democratic lawmaker and one Republican staffer have reported their Facebook accounts being hacked. No one is exactly sure why, but officials point to a potential security hole — a free, open wireless network for House visitors and legislators. The Post-Dispatch says each hacking victim had used the network recently.

Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere is expected to escape being punished by the Football Association after the midfielder vented his anger at referee Phil Dowd on Twitter following his side’s 4-4 draw with Newcastle. Arsenal were 4-0 up at half-time but after Abou Diany was sent off Newcastle took full advantage of their extra player to stage a remarkable comeback. Shortly after the final whistle at St James’ Park, the 19-year-old wrote on his Twitter account: ‘Inconsistent refereeing needs to stop. It’s killing the game. If Diaby goes..what’s...

Social Media or Social Networks are becoming popular among wide community of users and it can be seen that Google is going to have “Google Me” names social network which clearly shows that how much big search companies are interested in these social networks concepts. Other reason of this new network may be due to decreasing popularity of Face Book which made Search Giant to have own Social Networking Platform, how ever with Google Buzz, Google has already entered in this concept, but Google Buzz not seems enough to the company to have this wide areas...

Twitter now supports 800 million search queries per day, according to Biz Stone, the site’s co-founder, making it the fastest growing search engine, outpacing Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing combined.

What is a verified account? To prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting (beta testing) with a ‘Verified Account’ feature. We’re working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis. Accounts with a Verified are the real thing!

Social media giants Twitter have finally caved in and agreed to advertising on the site- which will be effective almost immediately. The adverts, which have been branded ‘Promoted Tweets’, will take pride of place at the top of the site’s search results. Apparently, Promoted Tweets will be regular updates that businesses intentionally post in order to reach their target audience.Regarding the content of the tweets, Twitter has promised that any content that the user doesn’t deem relevant will be removed.Only one Promoted Tweet will appear per search...

TweepML is an extensible, open standard format that allows you to manage and share groups of Twitter users. TweepML is a simple format to make it easy for people to share a list of Twitter users (”Tweeps”). TweepML is an XML-based format. You can start by checking the spec, examples or you can use one of the libraries available to add support to your app.

The full transcript of NDTV’s exclusive interview with Evan Williams, Twitter’s Co-Founder at their headquarters in San Francisco. NDTV: It’s a word on everybody’s lips. You can hardly pick up a newspaper or a magazine without somebody talking about Twitter and we are very pleased to have its CEO Evan Williams join us.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has conceded that 140 characters are not always enough to get your message across, especially when it comes to summarising the amazing growth of your micro-blogging site in the last year. Stone used 1552 characters in his email newsletter to account holders yesterday, offering some insight to the highlights of Twitter’s ‘annus miraculous’

With the number of online social network users rising, people who access these sites on their mobile browser is also increasing. Mobile Internet browsing is the best option to keep in touch with the world while you are on the move.