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Hockey fans fed up with ongoing NHL labor strife
Sitting in a hockey locker room, Steve Chase became the latest die-hard fan fed up with the NHL lockout. Living in Los Angeles, Chase believed the ...
A look at prolific Twitter accounts
Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account. In amassing an army of ...
Pope hits 1M mark as he tweets: 'Dear Friends... '
Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account, blessing his online fans and ...
Boy arrested for sending racist tweet to player
Police say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested for sending a racist tweet to a Manchester United player, widely reported to be Rio Ferdinand, during ...
Italy tax police check Facebook's books
Italian tax police have visited Facebook's Milan offices to check the books of the social networking site, part of the country's crackdown on tax ...
Israel's President tweets the pope a welcome
Israeli President Shimon Peres welcomed Pope Benedict XVI, both octogenarians, to social media with a personal tweet on Tuesday. Peres, 89, tweeted ...
Pope joins tweeting masses with Pontifex handle
Benedict XVI, the pope known for his hefty volumes of theology and lengthy encyclicals, is now trying brevity — spreading the faith through his own ...
Tajikistan blocks US-funded news website
Tajikistan has blocked a popular U.S.-funded news website, only days after barring access to social networking site Facebook for featuring content ...
China detains man for Twitter joke on party meet
Hundreds of Chinese Internet users are rallying around a Beijing blogger who has been detained by police after posting a joke on Twitter about the ...
Outrage in India over arrests for Facebook post
As India's financial capital shut down for the weekend funeral of a powerful politician linked to waves of mob violence, a woman posted on Facebook ...
Man demoted for Facebook comments wins case
Britain's High Court ruled Friday that a Christian was unfairly demoted for posting his opposition to gay marriage on Facebook. Adrian Smith was ...
In UK, Twitter, Facebook rants land some in jail
One teenager made offensive comments about a murdered child on Twitter. Another young man wrote on Facebook that British soldiers should "go to hell.
Austria court upholds Facebook ban for broadcaster
A court in Austria has upheld a Facebook ban for state broadcaster ORF after the country' broadcast regulators ruled that its statutes do not allow ...
Pope to join celebs, presidents with Twitter feed
He already has a billion followers. Now, Pope Benedict XVI will join the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world's ...
World Series averages record low television rating
The San Francisco Giants' sweep of the Detroit Tigers set a record low for the World Series' television ratings. The four games on Fox averaged a 7.
Armstrong removes Tour titles from Twitter bio
Having won seven Tour de France titles is no longer part of Lance Armstrong's Twitter profile. As late as Monday night, Armstrong's bio on the social ...
After lawsuit threat, Twitter to pull racist posts
Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for ...
Twitter shuts out German neo-Nazi group's account
Twitter has for the first time blocked an account using a new tool that allows it to bar content in individual countries, shutting out a banned German ...
Ashley Cole fined by FA for vulgar Twitter post
England's Football Association has fined Chelsea left back Ashley Cole 90,000 pounds ($145,000) for insulting the governing body in an offensive ...
Bahrain detains 4 for alleged anti-king tweets
Bahrain has detained four people for defaming the island's king with Twitter posts in a case that is likely to test the limits of expression in the ...
Turkish pianist on trial for insulting Islam
A top Turkish pianist and composer appeared in court on Thursday to defend himself against charges of offending Muslims and insulting Islam in ...
British Ambassador apologizes for Falklands tweet
Britain's ambassador to Chile has apologized for a Twitter message that indirectly referred to a vulgar chant questioning the bravery and sexual ...
Teen who posted video on bullying found dead
Canada was in uproar Friday over a 15-year-old schoolgirl who was found dead, an apparent suicide, five weeks after she uploaded a video to YouTube ...