A Twitter user has passed themselves off as the communications department of beleaguered oil giant BP, with a series of tongue-in-cheek tweets about the current oil crisis and racked up more than 35,000 in the process — many more than oil giant’s official voice. Read More »

The Wired iPad app had just gone live launched with the message that Apple’s device finally gives s the magazine the “opportunity to make the Wired we always dreamed of”. And isn’t that a great cover to kick off with? Read More »

Brands are struggling to use social media to its best possible advantage, and many recent high-profile social media fails have shown how badly wrong things can go. Read More »

Is this the dawn of the closed web and anti-social media? Or is the move by the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times to erect its paywall a journalistic and business dead-end. I think increasingly it is the latter. Read More »

Social media can help save the planet, according to Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo who has been speaking about the organisation’s campaign to stop Nestlé from sourcing palm oil from plantations that are causing deforestation. Read More »

Holy shmoly social media fans it is all happening at Twitter. Yesterday as we reported Twitter said it planned to ban third party ad services and now it says it is to charge publishers who build content around Twitter. Read More »

As Twitter prepares to ramp up its Promoted Tweet Program it has announced that it plans to ban all third party Twitter ad platform killing off the raft of independent Twitter based ad networks that have sprung up. Read More »

Information Architects has come up with this great map of the Twitter universe that reveals the 140 most influential people on Twitter. Read More »

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has reacted to public and media condemnation over the use of its members’ personal data by promising to add privacy controls to the site in the coming weeks. Read More »

Hopes of a last-minute reconciliation between BA and union leaders have been scuppered because of tweets made by a senior representative of workers’ union Unite. Read More »