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Michael Jackson makes a comeback on Twitter Five years after his death, Michael Jackson is back with a new video that breaks new ground by premiering on Twitter

Russian prime minister’s Twitter account hacked Hackers took over Dmitry Medvedev’s Twitter account firing off a series of embarrassing tweets to the Russian prime minister’s 2.5 million followers

Twitter unveils video ads Twitter has unveiled a new advertising programme that delivers “promoted videos”

Twitter hires too many white, Asian men Twitter has acknowledged that it has been hiring too many white and Asian men to fill high-paying technology jobs

IOL Twitter account hacked The Twitter account for the Independent Online news website appears to have been compromised by mischievous hackers

Oscar’s tweets not in contempt of court Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius’s latest tweets were not in contempt of court, a media lawyer has said

Presidency asks Twitter to shut down accounts The Presidency is in the process of asking Twitter to close down fake accounts claiming to be Cyril Ramaphosa

Why hashtags matter for TV shows While some critics argue the second screen experience of looking at a device while a show is on serves to distract viewers, networks see nothing but an upside

Twitter COO Ali Rowghani resigns Twitter’s chief operating officer, Ali Rowghani, has resigned from his post and won’t be replaced

Tweetdeck offline after Twitter XSS attack A cross-site scripting exploit has hit Twitter’s own client software, Tweetdeck

CIA joins Twitter and Facebook “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet” – CIA

Free Twitter on MTN MTN has launched a new promotion offering its Internet users free access to Twitter

FNB Twitter “joke” causes online storm FNB’s Twitter personality, Rbjacobs made a social media blunder on Tuesday (22 April), when a joke regarding the whereabouts of the bank’s widely-known “Steve” persona blew up in its face.

Twitter redesigns user profile pages Twitter unveiled a redesign of its user profile pages, the latest in a series of steps promised by the company to bring new users to the seven-year-old service.

Turkey keeps YouTube ban A Turkish court backtracks on an earlier ruling granting citizens access to the video-sharing site