Donald Trump tweeted today that Rex Tillerson will no longer be serving as Secretary of State and will be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. However, according to State Department Under Secretary Steve Goldstein, Tillerson didn't find out about his removal from the president and it appears that … Read More

The New York Times is reporting that Kelly asked Tillerson to cut short his trip to Africa and advised him last Friday that he “may get a tweet.” It seems that Twitter is now the preferred medium of communication among all White House and Cabinet-level staff these days. The undersecretary …

Mo Norai has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade. He's done stints at Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple, but only as a contract worker, meaning he has missed out on the tech giants' storied perks, benefits and job security. So when he was approached last April by a recruiter …

London – A casual conversation while training in her local pool led to Lizzie Simmonds facing an unlikely Twitter attack after the British swimmer became known to millions of sports fans in the United States. Getting in some extra training outside her scheduled sessions with the University of Edinburgh, … Read …

But Twitter, at least, is trying to get it right. The social media platform has created an Irish themed emoji that will be triggered by a range of related St. Patrick's Day hashtags, from #StPatricksDay and ##LáFhéilePádraig to #GrünFürIrland and #SãoPatrício. Nine different languages will get the shamrock … Read More

On Friday, the platform cleared house of a particular kind of leach, suspending several popular accounts known for ripping off other people's tweets or jokes without crediting the original creator and for making money by retweeting the plagiarized content. BuzzFeed reported in January that the so-called … Read More

But Lineker, who works for both BT Sport and the BBC, posted a joke on Twitter about Carragher's removal from Sky Sports' coverage of the Monday night Premier League encounter between Stoke City and Manchester City. “Seems @Carra23 can't do it on a cold, damp Monday night at Stoke,” Lineker … …

NINTENDO HAS UPDATED the Switch to make it easier for hybrid console fans to add contacts from Facebook and Twitter into their friends list. The new feature comes courtesy of Nintendo's 5.0.0 update which also smooths over some kinks in the operating system and adds new parental controls. Read More

Forget Russian botnets or cryptocurrency spammers – the latest robots to join Twitter are chemists. By hooking up automated platforms to the internet and letting them chat on social media, researchers have shown that robots can work together to solve simple chemistry problems. Lee Cronin at the … Read More

There are a few ways of getting “followers” on Twitter. If you are already popular offline, you just need to sign up and announce to the world that you are on Twitter. If you aren't, go the old-fashioned way of working hard at building a following — tweet regularly on …