Have you ever wondered how some Twitter users manage to gain a huge following, despite having fairly limited online profiles otherwise? Welcome to “gaming”, a practice causing huge controv... Read More

@350: A tweet cannot express the level of frustration & disappointment I feel w/Obama right now. So much for change. #cop15 @TheEcoist: White House Announces Completely Meaningless Agreement in Cl... Read More

What if Twitter had been around during the Spanish Civil War? Would George Orwell have journeyed to Catalonia to fight the fascists? Perhaps not. Judging by events in 2009, maybe “@GeorgeOrwell&... Read More

Here’s something to briefly distract you from the Telegraph’s Pre-Budget report build-up: an online rumour claims that Sarah Brown’s recent gibberish tweet – “fvdfzsrsaz... Read More

My colleague Damian Thompson has just laid in to Stephen Fry with a vengeance. Here’s the case for the defence, written a few weeks ago after the row over Fry’s Twitter comments: I see tha... Read More

Face it. It’s going to happen. John and Edward, the Irish twins with the electroshock therapy quiffs, will win The X Factor. Critics will tell you that the twins, aka Jedward, are merely riding ... Read More

You may already be aware that, in the words of Stephen Fry on Twitter about an hour ago, “a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written somethi... Read More

Tim Cheetham, the Barnsley Labour councillor who sent a Twitter message describing Catholics venerating the relics of St Thérèse as “slobbering zealots”, is blaming the 140-character l... Read More

As a political consultant, I can’t get over how much money is still being wasted pandering to kiddies. To capture the elusive “youth vote” in any election campaign, I keep hearing, apparent... Read More

If you’re not into R & B, the name might not mean a thing. But believe me, Chris Brown is a big deal. I know this not because of my (often sketchy) knowledge of black music, but because the ... Read More