Twitter has suspended its new retweet function (http://status.twitter.com/post/240745460/retweet-feature-temporarily-disabled).

Now, this takes me back. When I started writing about technology...

The wires are abuzz with stories of Twitter (http://twitter.com) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) customers being robbed. It's fairly simple; you Tweet or tell your Facebook friends that you're...

Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) is going on trial for an alleged breach of privacy it appears. The full story is here...

ITV (http://www.itv.com) has finally put all the rumours into perspective and sold FriendsReunited (http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk). It's lost millions in doing so and there's no getting away from...

Twitter (http://twitter.com) has struck again according to reports. The German elections had their results leaked online, both on Twitter and over the open Internet. In the same week that the UK...

Is this the beginning of a backlash? It looks as though there's some research out there to suggest that the over-55s are starting to desert Facebook...

This is going to be important - although some lawyers are saying it's not going to stick outside Sweden. The Pirate Bay people, who aren't so much advocates of Internet file swapping as proud...

The debate goes on and on about whether social networking and in particular Twitter are any use for the business community.

One of the better debates I've seen about this is here...

One of the major problems with social networks - hey, one of the major problems with any new trend - is that so many people spend so long trying to persuade themselves that they're actually looking...

...and the Times has now removed its original story, which was about an abusive site for which Ryanair accidentally took credit. Looks like the Times' own online marketing has taken a bit of a...

It trundles on and on - there was a Ryanair Twitter site from one of the marketing team but they've shut it down.

Times story here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5851864.ece...

OK - according to the Travelution site it seems that earlier today someone in Ryanair confirmed that this was indeed an official Ryanair site, but later someone more senior said it wasn't. My best...

I'm excited today. I've had a meeting with a publisher and I've been commissioned - contract in the post - to write a book about using social media for business. There, I wasn't going to tell you but...

Following which I find Twitter has ground to a go-slow this afternoon and I even had a message saying it was over capacity, please try again later. It's always the way - you tell people about...

There's only been one story in most of the UK National papers this year so far, apart from 'Apple releases some fairly dull equipment', and that's been Twitter. Last year everyone was talking about...

If this is the year of anything then it's the year of social media. And yet I start to see the tide turning.

I'm quite a keen Twitterer (www.twitter.com (http://www.twitter.com) for anyone who...

I've been doing some work on social networking recently. Specifically my column in the UK's Sunday Telegraph newspaper has found a number of companies that have used the idea very much to their...

An interesting development in the UK is that residents of Solihull Community Housing are about to get connected to the Internet through their power points at low cost, subsidised due to their low...