As BrandRepublic has reported today, MailOnline has overtaken the Huffington Post to become the world’s second largest ‘newspaper’ site.

It receives plenty of criticism for its editorial stance, in particular for its inflammatory stories on immigration, benefit cheats and the sexuality of recently deceased pop stars.  Then there’s the incessant focus about women in the public eye being too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too fertile, too sterile, too rich, too poor, too pretty, too ugly, too drunk, too boring….you get the idea. Read More »

News Corporation might recently have delayed The Sun’s move to paid content, in light of the disappointment with the The Times, but that is not stopping the Telegraph Media Group pushing ahead with plans to introduced a metered paywall for Telegraph.co.uk.

Marketing reports today that the Daily Telegraph website is to a unveil paid-for website in September and that it will be a metered model, which unlike The Times and its anti-social media paywall will allow articles to be freely shared online. Smart move. Read More »

In case there was any doubt, your Twitter feed is now officially fair game for any tabloid hack with some space to fill. That’s because the Press Complaints Commission has said in an historic ruling — the first it has made regarding republication of information originating from Twitter — that it is not upholding complaints made by a tweeter about stories that ran in the Daily Mail and the Independent on Sunday.

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Roy Greenslade has highlighted a case of blatant plagiarism as the Daily Mail is caught red handed ripping off a long piece about how the rise of consumer electronic devices could cause plane crashes.

The New York Times piece, by Christine Negroni, quotes half a dozen sources and every single one appears in the story by Mail hack Liz Thomas including people with distinctive names such as Dinkar Mokadam, of the Association of Flight Attendants. Like no one is going to spot that, right? Read More »

Intriguing research into how social networks are sending traffic to French news websites shows that Twitter is well behind Facebook in terms of the percentage of total percentage of visits delivered.

Source: AT Internet

Why intriguing? Twitter is full of links. URL shorteners are running out of short links because of the number that tweeters use. Tweeters blame each other for spikes in traffic to the Daily Mail website caused by links being shared. Read More »

If you follow a load of left-leaning London media types on Twitter, you’ll know that there’s not a lot of love for Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre.

And today it emerges that the feeling is mutual, with Dacre criticising the blogosphere, among others, not for criticisng the Daily Mail endlessly but for being ignorant about the Press Complaints Commission. Read More »

It doesn’t get much more embarrassing. The Daily Mail has been caught out by the notorious fake Steve Jobs Twitter account and reported a tweet that Apple’s new iPhone 4 might have to be recalled as the real thing. Ouch. Read More »

http://t.co - the native Twitter URL shortener

Twitter has had its fair share of problems with spammers and phishing, especially through its direct messaging feature, but in March it started using its own URL shortening service in DMs, partly as a way of blocking suspicious links. Read More »

The Sun has come under fire today on Twitter and elsewhere for a poll it has run, in the wake of the David Laws resignation, which asks the question: “Should gay people be cabinet ministers?”. Read More »

Richard Madeley has harnessed the power of Twitter to tell his 21,171 followers about the “b*****d rich kids” driving around North London in a Bentley and dropping litter Read More »