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In this first installment of Shallow Dives Around The World, we will take a not-that-deep look at the trending topics...

It was a momentary blip which cost the U.S Stock Exchange over $136 billion - and it was caused by a hacked tweeter account.

Twitter got 2013 off to a great start with a record breaking number of tweets posted in the seconds just before and after midnight, as this infographic shows

Twitter has released its review of 2012, showing the most popular and important tweets of an eventful year for the social network.

Facebook has revealed its year end review of the most mentioned topics on the site as well as an application that allows you to create your own timeline review of 2012.

This year's United States presidential race will be won and lost on Twitter, with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo stating that "2012 is going to be the Twitter election". Costolo made his comments during an interview at the Dive Into Media event organised by All Things D.

United States President Barack Obama has joined Google+ ahead of next year's presidential election. The Google+ Page has officially been verified by Google and its first update published Wednesday afternoon.

It was bound to happen – President Obama must have known when he uttered those iconic words, “is féidir linn”, to cheering crowds on May 23 that he was creating the mother of Irish memes.

If you weren't one of the luck 40,000 people who squeezed into Dublin’s College Green to hear President Obama’s speech then click over to this brilliant panorama by Irish photographer Con O’Donoghue.

US President Barack Obama's indestructible limo, nicknamed 'The Beast', got stuck leaving the US Embassy in Dublin earlier today. An exit ramp trapped the vehicle in which Barack Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama were traveling in following lunch with US Ambassador Dan Rooney.

The latest information for people who will be in and around Dublin City during the visits of Queen Elizabeth and President Obama.

The Gardaí, Ireland’s national police force, has joined Twitter ahead of the historic visits of Queen Elizabeth and President Barack Obama in the next two weeks. The Gardaí’s Twitter account, @gardatraffic, will become one of the main ways the police force will notify the public of planned widespread disruptions to vehicle and pedestrian travel in and around Dublin City.

To coincide with US President Barack Obama’s state visit to Ireland on May 23rd, an initiative that attempts to get Ireland trending on Twitter that day is well under way. The initiative, started by PocketNative, hopes that a high volume of tweets containing the hashtag ‘#IRLday’ will ensure that the topic trends on Twitter during the President’s visit and Ireland receives the attention of over 200 million other Twitter users.

While U.S. President Barack Obama’s security team was in Moneygall, Co Offaly, last week they were too early to pick up one of these “What’s the craic Barack” t-shirts.

The White House have released this iconic image of US President Barack Obama’s dinner with technology business leaders last night in Woodside California. The aim of the gathering is said to promote technological innovation as a means to increase employment and boost the US economy.