Social Media

It was a busy day at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, California yesterday, where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made three very important announcements, largely giving Facebook users more control over what they share and precisely who with.

According to comScore data released today for the month of August, Facebook is now the second most popular platform to watch online video content, narrowly overtaking Yahoo!

Jay Leno's wise cracks at the expense of Brian Cowen have met with uproar from the media, most of whom are disgusted at the treatment of the 'Prime Minister of Ireland,' but those sentiments don't seem to be share by Ireland's social media users.

Twitter users across the world are reporting that the social networking site is resetting their follower counts to zero. Twitter users are being greeted with the following message

If reports surfacing in the last 24 hours are true, Twitter is about to launch another monetization feature - “Promoted Accounts”.

Mark Zuckerberg, along with Newark mayor Cory Booker, visited a school in Newark that will benefit from Zuckerberg's recent pledge of $100 million to help improve the Newark education system.

Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, appears on the Oprah Show to discuss his new Startup: Eduction foundation, which the billionaire officially announced on a blog post yesterday.

UPDATE: As of 10pm GMT the site is back up and functioning correctly. Facebook is in the process of fixing a major DNS failure which has brought down the social networking site globally.

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Today Facebook announced a number of new features that give its users more control over the updates they see in their News Feed.

As the hack-prone Twitter website was again rendered unusable by a serious security flaw today Twitter users were quick to vent their anger and frustration...on Twitter itself.

Flickr’s popularity continues to grow with the service quietly celebrating its five billionth photo upload.