Social Media

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be announcing details of a new tool “which has the power to save lives” in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts to be broadcast Tuesday morning.  A tool that saves lives — what on earth could that mean? A Facebook-branded defibrillator? We doubt it, but then Facebook has had a few surprises up its sleeve lately, so who knows what to expect. News of Zuckerberg’s appearance on Tuesday’s Good Morning… Read More

Welcome to the inaugural Ask DT post, where we’ll be answering reader questions you’ve sent in. This week we've got a rather technical question about chargers, some ways to placate your Timeline troubles, and the age-old developer query about whether to go Android or iOS. Check out our answers, and be sure to keep sending in your questions to [email protected].  The need for a voltage converter when abroad Q: I recently moved from… Read More

It was only a matter of time before someone launched a spoof of social media ranking service Klout. And that time is now. A new site, called Klouchebag, allows anyone to find out "how much of an asshat you are on Twitter." Of course, the fun isn't limited to your own Twitter profile — you can find out how much of an asshat everyone else is, too! The site was launched by British technology evangelist Tom Scott who, if… Read More

A few weekends ago, Saturday Night Live revived its ongoing Laser Cats skit with its most recent Digital Short featuring a Steven Spielberg-inspired plot. Low in production? Absolutely. Hilarious? Sure. Overdone and getting old? Well, if you agree with that last statement, you might be excited to learn there's a new animal in town that's about to get equipped with lasers, and it ain't going to be tiny kittens. Wicked Lasers,… Read More

The company behind Facebook smash hit Farmville has made multiple fortunes by adhering to a well-defined business formula: Zynga takes hyper-simple game concepts, hones their risk/reward ratio to a shining razor's edge, slaps some simple aesthetics on the package and drops them into the unassuming, wildly lucrative world of Facebook or the cellular phone market and reels in buckets of cash from players enticed by each game's… Read More

For all its inherent problems, Pinterest has managed to remain a hot commodity for the better part of this year. But that early and meteoric rise to the top may be leveling out: Facebook-connected Pinterest active users have decreased over the last month, and general interest appears to have died down. Part of that can easily be attributed to early hype. How many of you signed up for a Pinterest account because you had to see what the craze… Read More

It's been quite some time since Twitter updated its iOS and Android apps — but now the wait is over. Twitter announced today a number of new features that appear in the micro-blogging platform's most popular mobile versions. The first and most significant update is a new "Activity" stream that appears under the Discover tab. According to Twitter's description, "Activity is a stream of updates that shows which… Read More

An extraordinary European soccer match between Spanish side Barcelona and British team Chelsea saw a new record set for tweets-per-second (TPS) during a single sporting event.  According to a post on the Twitter UK blog, total global traffic on the popular social networking platform peaked at an astonishing 13,684 TPS towards the end of Tuesday night’s game, beating the previous record of 12,233 TPS set during the Super Bowl in February. What… Read More

As mentioned recently on the official Google+ Developers blog, the development team behind Google+ has launched a sharing button for users of Google+. Google already has the +1 button to allow users to recommend content. The +1 button is similar to the Facebook Like button and acts as a public endorsement of the content. The new Google+ Share button is fairly identical to the Facebook Share button and allows Google+ users to share a piece of… Read More

If our daily spam email is anything to go by, it's a dangerous Internet out there, intent on giving your computer viruses and stealing all your information just because you found yourself convinced that someone called "Jen" really wanted to reconnect, even though you couldn't remember ever knowing a Jen at any point in your life. Well, help is at hand, and coming from somewhere that you might now have expected: Facebook… Read More

Today, Facebook took a ballsy step toward owning more of your life. The newest update for the Facebook Android app has been released and it contains two extra apps: Messenger and Camera. Like the 1990s WB series Sister, Sister, your phone will soon have two nearly identical Camera apps and two messaging apps. Camera and Camera: Facebook has now placed a Facebook Camera app right next to your default Android camera app. So you now have… Read More

According to a recent ruling mentioned on Thompson Reuters, a New York judge ruled that police officers can subpoena all tweets from a Twitter account without the need for a warrant. Equating the tweets to bank account records, criminal court Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. ruled that an Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protester couldn't challenge the third-party subpoena that wanted access to his Twitter account information in addition to a… Read More

Admit it: You've been wondering what to do with all of your old Facebook messages. You've been on the site for some time, and they're all just cluttering up your timeline with messages from friends and family that don't serve any real purpose anymore. If only there was something you could do with all of them, you've thought to yourself, some way to turn them into something useful... Well, guess what: There is.… Read More

As one of the most-connected countries in the world, computers in the United States have historically been the biggest source of spam on the Internet. That doesn't mean the U.S. is full of spammers, but rather that the United States is comparatively packed with computers, and a significant number of those have been infected with malware and botnets that put them in the control of spammers. Those spammers, of course, can be located… Read More

Viddy’s growth has been seemingly unstoppable. After becoming a Facebook Timeline app a little over a month ago, the video-meets-filter app hasn’t slowed down. The Viddy community now boasts 10 million registered users (it had 1.5 million users less than 10 days ago) and has some new cash to line its pockets with. Today Viddy announced a slew of names that will help it complete its Series A round of fundraising. Names like Twitter’s Biz Stone,… Read More