If you use the main Twitter website, we can help you out with some seriously useful keyboard shortcuts. Whether it's navigational tricks or keyboard actions, these handy shortcuts will save you tons of time. SEE ALSO: 10 Tips and Tricks for Powerful ...
Plants, presidents and cute animals turned evil await you in this week's edition of Reddit Facts. Spy any good knowledge bombs on the front page of the Internet this week? Share your favorite tidbits in the comments section....
Got $7 burning a hole in your pocket? Want to promote a post on Facebook, but don't want to appear egotistical? Then boy, are you going to be pleased by Thursday's news from the social network: you can now (or will soon be able to) pay to promote you...
If you're looking for love late at night in a bar, you're doing it wrong. According to a recent study conducted by Match.com, almost one-third of singles have dated someone they met online. About 20% of those surveyed said they met their most recent ...
For Valentine's Day this year, we challenged you to create your best #Valenvine by using six second video app Vine. SEE ALSO: 10 Works of Art on Vine You got creative and shared vines that were both adorable and eye-catching. These valenvines ranged ...
The real, post-college world can be a scary place. When it comes to finding rewarding, fun work, wouldn't it be nice if there was somewhere you could go for all the answers? Well, you might want to check out Reddit's Ask Me Anything board. Since 1 o'...
Actress Evan Rachel Wood on Wednesday fired off a series of angry tweets to vent about paparazzi pictures that show her clutching ultrasound scans of her unborn child presumably near a hospital. The photos first appeared in The Daily Mail. "I have ne...
We're happy to announce the return of MashBash at SXSWi 2013! Amid the plethora of panels, presentations and parties, Mashable will be hosting one of the biggest and most memorable events in Austin. Join Mashable and the SXSWi community on Sunday, Ma...
Facebook has clarified its platform policies in response to the news that it has shut off friend-finding access to Twitter's new video sharing app, Vine. Within hours of Vine's launch, the ability for users to find Facebook friends also using Vine di...
Twitter users may soon have a new way to share videos in their tweets. Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, tweeted on Wednesday morning about making steak tartare, but unlike the more than 5,000 other tweets Costolo has posted to date, this one feature...
A web developer is claiming he was able to access personal Facebook profiles through a security hole.
It has been another busy week in the digital world. Catch up on the latest digital media resources with our weekly features roundup.
Canadian tennis professional Rebecca Marino announced she is quitting the sport, following a bout with depression that has been exacerbated by cyberbullying on social media sites. Marino -- the 22-year-old who was once in the top 40 players in the wo...
Unless you’ve been living with that Russian family cut off from human contact since before World War II, you may have noticed that pretty much every video worth a watch on YouTube has an ad in front of it. This, of course, is not an accident. This is...
iMadeFace is one of the hottest new apps, enabling anyone with an iPhone to turn their social avatars into cartoonish versions of their self. Last week, we asked you to submit your best iMadeFace self-portraits. You sent us some amazing submissions, ...
Behold: The real Harlem Shake. Not that spasmodic-yet-entertaining thing that's been going around lately.
Anna Lamb-Creasey's son had disappeared without a trace. She called hospitals and jails. She waited for days and then weeks and then a month, desperate for a sign of life. She posted to his Facebook page: "Rickie where are you? Love mom." Rickie was ...
Oscilloscope Labs’ newest film, It’s a Disaster, made its web debut Tuesday on Vine. "From the moment it launched just three short weeks ago, it was so clear to us that six-second loops of video, edited in-phone, and posted in real time was and will ...
Blogging -- even "microblogging" -- can be a big project to take on seriously. For people using Tumblr to write about their cancer experiences, the community becomes an unconventional source of support, easing the transition between treatment and recovery.
Taking a cue from real Twitter account hacks, MTV and BET partook in some viral marketing Tuesday -- by "hacking" each others' accounts. The Twitter accounts from the two Viacom-owned cable channels, MTV and BET appeared as if they were hacked Tuesda...
It didn't take long for non-profits to catch the Vine bug. As soon as Twitter launched the new Vine app, Becca Meyers of the New York Humane Society shared a six-second clip of cat Parker from the non-profit's newly minted account. Last Friday, Parke...
The papal Twitter account, @pontifex, will be shut down when Pope Benedict XVI leaves office, the CNN reports citing Vatican radio. "It seems unimaginable that one could continue to use a communication tool so popular and powerful during the 'sede va...
The Pinterest team hasn't been idle over the past year; it has a major redesign in the works. But what pinners want most isn't included in the new design.
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Do you follow a brand in social media? Are you glad you did? If that's the...
To cut down on fake email scams and ploys to steal your passwords, Twitter is boosting its email authentication security to prevent malicious attacks.
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Donald Trump is the latest high-profile victim of a Twitter hack job. Just before noon EST on Thursday, Trump's account, @realDonaldTrump, tweeted a line from Will.I.Am's "Scream & Shout (Remix)." The lyrics in question come from Lil' Wayne's verse i...
Our favorite thing about Facebook is that it keeps us connected to our faraway friends and family. If you want to send someone a special message via the service, did you know you can record a voice version? Thanks to the Messenger apps for iOS and An...
Houston's Memorial Hermann hospital system live-tweeted a C-section delivery for the first time in world history on Wednesday morning, giving followers an educational -- and extremely graphic -- look at one way human life begins. The operation on an ...
If you’re tweeting out a URL, your tweets just got a bit shorter. Starting Wednesday, any tweet sent with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters, or 117 for https links. First announced in December, the reduction is due to a change in Twitter’s t.co...
