SOCIAL MEDIA

IBTimes culled the most notable, or outrageous, Twitter moments of 2012. Congratulations, Rupert Murdoch.

Facebook's New Year's Eve Midnight Message Delivery feature automatically sends messages on NYE.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has filed for a handful of new trademarks for "Poke," its new messaging service that rivals Snapchat, despite abandoning its original "Poke" trademark little more than a year ago.

Mike Busey, the nephew of Gary Busey whose real name is Michael Andrew Ward, was arrested in a Santa suit Saturday.

Twitter has appointed Ali Rowghani and Mike Gupta as the social media startup's new COO and CFO, respectively. The news broke after Twitter announced the changes Wednesday night on, well, Twitter itself.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has done it again! Zuckerberg has donated liberally to a charity in Silicon Valley.

Instagram has addressed concerns about its Terms of Service update, saying that it does not plan to sell users' photos or display them in ad campaigns.

Instagram is the target of a storm of outrage on Twitter and other sites after a change in its user agreement hinted that it might use shared photos in ads.

Nielsen is partnering with Twitter to create a new media metric service known as the Nielsen Twitter TV Rating.

Facebook has changed it's privacy settings, which has again resulted in unfavorable reactions from users.

Instagram began to trend on Twitter after Facebook went down for some users.

Fortunes are changing for Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, whose file-sharing website and servers were raided illegally in January by New Zealand police. A new court ruling from New Zealand’s High Court has confirmed that the country’s spy agency illegally spied on him and must make public the details of their Dotcom surveillance.

Keek was released in March and has exploded in popularity in the ensuing months, receiving 250 million page views and 21 million visits in August alone.

Get to know Ellen Grossman, the New York artist seen in Jay-Z's documentary video who admits during a ride on the subway that she has no clue who he is.

AARP hopes to unite members with a new dating service.

SugarSync, the provider of virtual storage in the cloud, introduced a service to allow customers to synchronize data using all versions of smartphones.

Plyfe, the website that allows customers to get unusual rewards by playing games on Facebook, is now available via smartphones.

Shares of Workday Inc. (NYSE: WDAY), among the hottest initial public offerings, fell after the company reported better-than-expected results.

At Lattice Engines, CEO Shashi Upadhyay believes his salesPRISM software will be the foundation that unlock new sales leads.

Google is making it easier for users to attach Google Drive files into Gmail messages allowing up to 10GB file attachments when sending an email.

“Cyber Monday” sales surged more than 30 percent above last year, creating the top online sales day, IBM (NYSE: IBM) said.

New data from Quantcast has put Tumblr in the top ten most-trafficked networks, an achievement that the New York-based startup spoke of too soon by announcing that it had become one of the top ten most-trafficked websites.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) surged as much as 9 percent after two major investment firms upgraded their ratings.

U.S. consumers used mobile platforms to generate a 17.4 percent boost in online sales, according to an IBM survey.

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the customer-relationship management software developer, reported stronger than expected third-quarter results.

Facebook users are likely to witness a slight slowdown in their connections shortly as the social networking site makes the transition for all its users to secure HTTPS connection this week.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, quashed market speculation it might forge an alliance with Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine.

Worldwide platform as a service (PaaS) revenue is estimated to reach $1.2 billion by the end of 2012, up from $900 million in 2011, a latest Gartner report stated.

Cisco Systems announced Sunday it plans to acquire privately held cloud-networking company Meraki Inc. for about $1.2 billion.