Twitter goes down, minds are promptly lost. When the micro-blogging site experienced an hour-long outage this afternoon, I’m sure it caused much fist-shaking and hair-pulling. Outside of a 60 minute outage back in October of 2011, the site has remained …

Tumblr has released the latest version of its iPhone app, version 3.0, after much anticipation from users. New features include high-res images, Spotify support and improved photosets from the dashboard, faster uploads, new shortcuts (like swiping the compose button up …

Twitter has been experiencing some downtime today. The company acknowledged site issues on its Status Blog, and shortly thereafter posted an update, indicating that the problem was resolved: Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working …

Google is rolling out new updates to Google+ Profiles and Pages. A sharebox is being added, and cover photos are being made easier to manage. Users will now be able to share from their own profile, as for some reason, …

If you are an athlete, actor, musician, etc. – just how far do you have to go to make it clear to your social media followers that a communication is serving as a sponsored advertisement? That’s the issue at the …

Facebook is launching subscription payments and local currency support for in-app payments, while getting rid of Facebook Credits. According to Facebook’s Credits page (pictured above), only 852 people liked Credits anyway. “With subscriptions, you can establish a recurring revenue stream …

For the second straight year, American Express and Facebook are teaming up for the “Big Break for Small Business” contest, which is “designed to transform the way small businesses connect and engage with customers online” – namely their social media …

Update: Apparently Scoble got it wrong when quoting Horowitz, and he did not actually say that Google+ will never have ads. Scoble said later in a comment on Google+: Also, sorry to +Bradley Horowitz for getting his quote wrong (apparently …

Facebook may not have applied for the .face gTLD, but the company has now acquired Face.com. With this acquisition, however, Facebook is getting much more than a good domain name. The acquisition isn’t a total surprise. We’ve reported on rumors …

If you’re a big fan of the Olympics and want to enhance your experience beyond simply watching the games on the tube, Facebook and the IOC are trying to make it easier for you. While various social media outlets are …

I am sure that many of us don’t remember a time when you couldn’t take an airplane to visit some far away destination. In fact, since commercial air travel was popularized in the 1960′s, many of us weren’t even born …

With Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other popular social websites woven into both our personal and business lives, it is clear that society has become dependent on social media. Technology companies and marketers are, of course, advocating this dependence since it …

Yesterday it was reported that some publications began criticizing Reddit, the democratized social sharing forum, for banning certain domains from being posted to its website. The banned domains included respected publications such as The Atlantic and Phys.org. The reason for …

Google continues to expand the presence of Google+ throughout its other products, but it is also finding ways to expand the presence of its other products throughout Google+. Google has now announced a new YouTube app for Google+ Hangouts. YouTube …

We all know about the great benefits social networking brings to our lives like reconnecting with old friends and acquaintances, staying in touch long-distance, and meeting new people with similar interests online. Also, did you know that for some people …

Reddit is one of the most popular content, link, and news sharing sites on the internet. Members of the site “upvote” or “downvote” posts, allowing the best content to rise to the top and be seen prominently. That’s the way …

Twitter announced some new expanded tweet functionality today for users accessing Twitter through twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com. Users will be able to view more content from the tweets themselves, before having to click through to the original site. I can’t imagine …

TwitVid, the service once known as the go-to destination for uploading videos to share on Twitter, has rebranded itself as Telly, and now has much bigger ambitions. WebProNews spoke with TwitVid and Telly founder Mo Adham about the launch. He …

Searchmetrics released a new study finding that the volume of Facebook shares a web page receives is closely correlated with how high it ranks in Google searches. “At the same time, too many Google AdSense ads on a page are …

ICANN finally revealed it’s list of all the applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). It’s a huge list, and includes all applicants from the January 13 – May 30 application window. Google applied for over 100 different gTLDs. Apple …

Twitter use as still on the rise as of February 2012. In fact, for internet users age 18-24, the number using Twitter in 2010 (16%) nearly doubled (31%) by February 2012. Also of interest is the percentage of the internet …