Revered American film critic Roger Ebert asked his 196,838 followers if they would be willing to pay to use Twitter — 20% of them said that they would cough up for the privilege as the debate about how will Twitter make money continues. Read More »

This will excite a lot of people who not only like to tell their Twitter followers what they’re doing, but where they’re doing it – the social networking site has launched a one-click-and-here-I-am function called Twitter Places, which comes with Foursquare and Gowalla integration. Read More »

Anyone following England footballers on Twitter won’t be reading any interesting tweets from players at the World Cup thanks to a social networking moratorium imposed on international teams. 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 »

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 »