Trump’s Twitter provokes huge following, trouble
Donald Trump says there’s genius in his tweets, but his wife wishes he would stop.
CPD gets active on Twitter
The Columbus Police Department is making heavy use of its Twitter account two weeks after it went live.
Our View: CPD’s use of Twitter shows commitment to transparency
Transparency is much like dieting: People spend more time talking about it than actually doing it.
CPD Twitter account launches Monday
The Columbus Police Department is joining Twitter.
2016 candidates jump to raise money via new Twitter service
Think of it as tweeting for dollars.
Kathleen Parker: Is Twitter really America’s conscience?
Denizens of social media were rankled during the Academy Awards telecast when actor Sean Penn made a crack about Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and green cards.
Newsweek’s Twitter feed briefly hacked
The Newsweek Twitter feed was briefly hacked Tuesday morning, purportedly by a group associated with the Islamic State.
Twitter tries to make it easier to report abuse
Twitter is trying to make it easier for victims and witnesses of online harassment to report it.
Three charged in gay assault; lawyer denies homophobia
A defense lawyer for one of three young adults charged with beating a gay couple during a night on the town insisted the men were injured when a “fist fight … got out of hand,” and not, as Philadelphia police believe, during a homophobic attack.
Fake tweets stir debate about parody, lawsuit
Jon Daniel was watching cartoons with one of his sons when he created a spoof Twitter account in the name of the Peoria mayor. Out of boredom, he said, he soon began sending profane messages about sex, drugs and alcohol.
Online sleuths aid probe into gay couple’s beating
Police searching for a group of people suspected in the beating of a gay couple got an outpouring of help from Twitter and Facebook users, who located a photo of the clean-cut young men and women at a restaurant and helped match names to faces.
Starkville police presence moves to Twitter
The Starkville Police Department launched a Twitter account Wednesday that will provide updates on local policing issues, road conditions and severe weather situations, while directly answering questions and concerns from residents.
Nixon’s back! (At least on Twitter)
If you believe the media reports, Richard Nixon suffered a stroke in 1994 and died days later at age 81. He is buried in his native Yorba Linda, California, silent as the country marks the 40th anniversary of his resignation.
Starkville police investigating Twitter accounts
Starkville Police Department launched a new investigation last month into a Twitter account parodying an elected official, court documents show, but investigators say the case is not active or moving forward at this time.
‘Cuban Twitter’ — overtly political, poking Castros
Draft messages produced for a Twitter-like network that the U.S. government secretly built in Cuba were overtly political and poked fun at the Castro brothers, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
U.S. secretly built ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
The U.S. government masterminded the creation of a “Cuban Twitter” — a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned.
Security firms watch social media for feisty fans
As Minnesota Vikings fans were getting ready for the final game at the Metrodome last December, officials at Whelan Security noticed social media chatter suggesting some of the faithful might rush the field and try to steal a piece of history.
DeGeneres’ selfie crashes Twitter
Ellen DeGeneres’ goal of setting a retweet record with her star-studded selfie was achieved before the Oscars telecast was even over.
Some sponsors compose Olympians’ tweets
Between photos and insights about their Olympic experience, some Olympians are turning over their social media accounts to sponsors, agreeing to quotas of postings on Twitter and Facebook and letting other people send commercial messages in their name.
Students to host Twitter town hall on consolidation
Student journalists with The Jacket Buzz, Starkville High School’s newspaper, will host a Twitter town hall event from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday that will focus on dialogue between teachers, administrators and pupils about the impending Oktibbeha County school merger.