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Super PAC, YOLO, Superstorm and other new terms provided heated competition, but GIF was named the 2012 word of the year.

One Reddit user posted a comic last week about his friend's experience taking a pregnancy test, which led to an unexpected -- and lifesaving -- result.

Reddit broke the Guinness World Record for Largest Game of Secret Santa last year. The site may surpass its own mark -- 30,250 participants in 115 countries -- in less than 24 hours.

Months after a server was fired for tweeting a picture of a receipt from NFL quarterback Peyton Manning with a generous tip, the latest viral sensation stems from a customer who did the opposite. The receipt, which is for a bill of $138.55, is marked with a note supposedly from a single mom who left no tip.

Reddit and a slew of other social services are down due to an issue with Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute Network in North Virginia.

Over the past year, the social media site Reddit has taken on an increasingly important role in the political sphere.

After 4chan and Reddit teamed up to send the reviled rapper Pitbull to the frozen wastelands of Kodiak, Alaska, the two groups of internet trolls are at it again, this time attempting to send Taylor Swift to perform an exclusive concert at a school for the deaf. Yes, for the deaf.

A new report released by the business consulting giant McKinsey Global Institute, showed that social-media tools stand to add $900 billion to $1.3 trillion to the economy, largely through increased productivity among skilled workers.

On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama did something that helped him reach and communicate with millions of people directly. The President spent around half-an-hour on the popular link-sharing website Reddit, answering questions from the general public and became the first ever sitting president to participate in a forum, commonly referred to as an AMA or "ask me anything."

President Barack Obama took part in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday, which answered users' questions and caused a server error.

John Wayne Gacy, Jr., who was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering at least 33 young men and teenage boys in the 1970s, had apparently tried to get his case seen by a new lawyer that might help him find justice. On Wednesday, Reddit user "Shipyaad" submitted a photo of an aged, worn-down letter, allegedly written from Gacy to Mr. Luis Kutner, the famous lawyer and activist from Chicago who co-founded Amnesty International.

Online forum Reddit is home to all kind of users, and all of those users are seeking to find another new home on Reddit Island. The community based around the front page of the internet plans to make an island home for themselves, but the Reddit community might not make the best society.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has written a letter to the President of the fast food chain Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, after Cathy’s negative remarks about gay marriage, suggesting that a Chick-fil-A would be unwelcome in the city of Boston.

On Tuesday night, self-professed geek rapper MC Chris (often stylized mc chris) booted a fan from his concert after the fan posted a tweet critical of chris' opening act. The fan was called out by name as mc chris was onstage and then forcibly ejected from the concert.

After Digg got soldout to Betaworks for a paltry $500K despite being valued at $164 million previously, news of Social Network competitors killing Digg is doing the rounds even as messiahs urge competitors to refrain from going the Digg way.

Digg dug its own grave. Once the darling of the social media world, the company was bought Thursday for $500,000. Here's how the social news-sharing site lost out to rivals like Reddit, Twitter and Facebook.

After issuing a warning last week, saying that it would block links from certain domains for misuse of the service, popular link-sharing website Reddit announced Wednesday that it had indeed banned a number of domains that included leading publications like The Atlantic and Businessweek.

Deep-fried cockroaches sound appetizing? According to one Reddit user, McDonald's served him hash browns with a roach cooked inside one of the breakfast treats. Identified on Reddit as LinkBoyJT, the user posted a photo on Wednesday of the hash brown with a fried roach inside, which has been viewed nearly 750,000 times with over 2,000 comments.

If you're on Reddit, the Jets want to know what you would do with the 16th pick of the 2012 NFL Draft.

The transformation from Zeddie Little into the Ridiculously Photogenic Guy began in April when the 25-year-old South Carolina, decided to compete in the 10km Cooper Bridge run in nearby Charleston. On April 16, Little introduced himself to the Reddit crowd that made him Internet famous by hosting his first-ever AMA (stands for Ask Me Anything) on the social news site.

Women around the world would not question the power of makeup - the power it has to instill confidence; the power it has to portray a particular feeling; and the power it has to transform. However, few women would dare to juxtapose the contrast between their face with makeup and their face without. A three-month-old photo posted on the social news website Reddit, entitled The power of makeup, ignited conversation online on Monday night.