(Reuters) – Rocket company SpaceX's verified Facebook page disappeared on Friday, minutes after its founder and Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk promised on Twitter to take down the page when challenged by a user. Elon Musk at a SpaceX press conference last month. REUTERS/Joe Skipper. Read More

The same goes for politicians. A global study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union found that social media platforms, including Twitter, are “the No. 1 place in which violence and abuse against women parliamentarians is perpetrated …. (posing) yet another challenge to women's political engagement.”. Read More

However, that hasn't stopped people on Twitter from launching a hate campaign against the vegetables that they can't stand the most. A couple of days ago, senior legal analyst Imani Gandy tweeted: “Is there a vegetable that's a bigger liar than spinach?”, also sharing a photo of a small amount …

During a tweetstorm, Elon Musk has removed both of his companies' Facebook pages after being challenged to do so by a few of his followers. The pages of both SpaceX and Tesla are now inactive. Each had around 2.6 million followers. Musk was answering a flurry of tweets this afternoon …

And, according to Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, that currency is Bitcoin. Speaking with The Times of London Wednesday, Dorsey said: "The world ultimately will have a single currency, the internet will have a single currency. I personally believe that it will be Bitcoin." But how long until that's …

An estimated 48 million Twitter accounts—approximately 15 percent of the entire userbase—are actually bots, according to research published last year from the University of Southern California and Indiana University. Some of these accounts blasted more than 2 million tweets during the 2016 election. Read More

Marchers walk through the Homewood neighborhood during their on Aug. 19, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania one week after the violent 'Unite the Right' rally in Virginia that left one woman dead and dozens more injured. Black Twitter has been a major platform for black social activism. Read More

Tate Martell was one of the athletes who appeared in an in-depth piece from The New York Times in January about social media's “black market” in which it was detailed how individuals can collect numerous fake accounts for their Twitter followings. Martell, a former Texas A&M quarterback commit … Read More

Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis apologized on Thursday for the purchase of 5,000 fake Twitter followers to inflate the appearance of his social media profile. The purchase was made “on his behalf” in March 2015, Chicago Tribune Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Bruce Dold wrote in a … Read More

James Milner has been welcomed to Twitter by a popular parody account which labels the footballer as dull. The Liverpool and England midfielder's first tweet after joining the social network on Thursday pictured him ironing a t-shirt. The Boring James Milner account, which often describes his chores, … Read More