The BBC is reporting that Twitter’s new European boss, Tony Wang, has indicated that users who broke the superinjunction to reveal Ryan Giggs’ name could face the English courts – and that if they do it will be on their own.

He said that people who did “bad things” would have to defend themselves. He was referring to a number of high profile users including Boy George, Piers Morgan and Dom Jolly who tweeted the Manchester United player’s name. Read More »

Poor David Cameron. Here is getting the PR hit of his life with the state visit of Barack Obama, but that can’t stop a bit of Twitter fun as the President addresses both houses of Parliament.

Labour tweeters have highlighted the fact that Cameron backed Obama’s defeated Republican rival Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election and got #cameronbackedmccain trending in London. Read More »

I’m not sure if it is a joke, but an article on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website (so not by the paper) in response the Ryan Giggs super injunction story makes the ludicrous suggestion that social media sites like Twitter and Facebook should “introduce a delay mechanism so that content can be checked before it goes up”.

Someone should have pointed out that this is not only impractical (although it would create a few thousand jobs), but quite impossible. There is no putting the social media genie back inside the bottle. Read More »

If you have followed The New York Times Twitter feed you will know that until now it has been an automated one much like many other publications, but that’s now changed — at least temporarily.

As Poynter reports The New York Times has replaced its main automatic feed this week with two real people, in social media editors Liz Heron and Lexi Mainland, as an experiment. Read More »

Social gaming firm Zynga is to file for its initial public offering as early as next week, according to a report on AllThingsD.

The marker of Farmville and Petville will follow LinkedIn whose IPO last week saw the business social networking site valued at more than 500 times its earnings at around $8.5bn. Read More »

So now we all officially know what we already knew. Whatever one might think about the importance of alleged affairs by alleged footballers with alleged models though, the past few weeks has dramatically demonstrated how the rules of engagement have changed for anyone wishing to fully control the flow of information about themselves.

In short, you can’t. A whole new set of social skills needs to be employed if you don’t want to end up with 75,000 people tweeting about you for all the wrong reasons. Read More »