SENIOR politicians in the SDLP and Green Party have unfollowed a Twitter profile about a Sinn Féin councillor after she branded it "clearly misogynistic". Patrice Hardy, a Mid and East Antrim representative, questioned why the social media account had been followed by other politicians. The recently … Read More

Launched in 1979, the Cozy Coupe was partly modelled after the Volkswagen Beetle and proved extremely popular with children. In 1991 the toy car sold around 500,000 unit in the US and UK alone. One Twitter user said: "Actually, this is the first time I've seen a Cozy Coupe broken …

It also boasts the greatest online engagement of any movie in Twitter's history, spawning #InWakanda, #NoContextSpoilers, and even the Black Panther Project, which paid for poorer kids to see the movie. As zeitgeisty site High Snobiety put it “Black Panther is not dominating the news cycle – it IS the … …

All told, so far, there are 43 million "actions" taken by fans who follow the Chadwick Boseman film on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or Youtube, according to Shareablee, a company that helps businesses analyze social content using dat and also partners with ComScore. (These "actions" do not take into … Read More

When I'm not on Twitter, I spend a lot of time at an improv theater (hey guys!). A common kind of scene I see there is a blackout scene. That's a scene that's only a few seconds long, and which typically features an action, and a response to that action. …

Scammers are tricking gullible Twitter users into sending their hard-earned ether (Ethereum's in-house cryptocurrency) to random wallets with the empty promise of a hefty giveaway. It's the latest chapter in the neverending saga of scammers exploiting the cryptocurrency gold rush, and the so-called … Read More

Governor Eric Greitens, who campaigned on a platform of family values and law and order (and machine guns, of course), was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with felony invasion of privacy in an incident related to an extramarital affair he has admitted to that took place in 2015. Naturally … Read …

Young people today are being given slightly outdated advice in an attempt to encourage them into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths, the head of Twitter Ireland has said. “There's a saying in terms of encouraging young women in particular and young women in general to look for … Read …

Many a meltdown took place this week as thousands of Twitter users discovered that thousands of their followers on the social media platform had vaporized overnight. Conservative pundits and alt-right activists were among those extra bothered by the sudden virtual exodus. “I've lost close to 1,000 … Read More

A recent purge of dormant Twitter accounts has started the hashtag #twitterlockout, with many speculating that this update is part of an effort to get rid of alleged Russian bots. This development has angered many conservative and far-right Twitter users who have lost up to thousands of followers, … Read More