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Business
November 6
Twitter offering creating excitement
Investors saw social media and mobile as sweet spots and it was no surprise Twitter's initial public offering had created so much excitement and was oversubscribed, Ovum principal analyst Eden Zoller said yesterday.
Dunedin
December 1
Flood alerts via Twitter
Otago landowners along floodways will soon be alerted to the risk of flooding through the Twitter alerts service.
Business
June 21
Sustained Twitter outage after hacker attack
Two service outages within the course of several hours have rocked microblogging platform Twitter, as users worldwide reported significant down-time and slow service across both Twitter's website and mobile applications.
News
August 16
Twitter conference has grads tweeting
The most valiant of song birds could be forgiven for falling silent in snow-covered Dunedin yesterday, but a great deal of tweeting was actually going on, thanks to an innovative University of Otago conference.
Dunedin
December 15
Social networks could play part
Social networks Twitter and Facebook could play a part in pushing the case for the Hillside Engineering Group Dunedin workshops to build flat-deck wagons for its owner KiwiRail.
Cricket
December 2
Cricket: Pietersen's tweet not sweet for Strauss
England captain Andrew Strauss says all is not sweet with Kevin Pietersen's tweet which labelled Adelaide Oval groundsmen as pathetic.
Entertainment
August 23
Lady Gaga assumes reign as latest 'Twitter queen'
Lady Gaga has surpassed Britney Spears as the most followed person on Twitter - for now.
Dunedin
July 15
Media message for council staff
Social media is free, instant, widely used, and a tool local governments can no longer ignore if they want to engage the public and fulfil their responsibility to be accountable, Northland Regional Council community relations general manager Jason Dawson says.
Business
July 11
US uses Facebook to sow unrest: China
A Chinese government-backed think tank has accused the US and other Western governments of using social-networking sites such as Facebook to spur political unrest and called for stepped-up scrutiny of the wildly popular sites.
Business
July 5
Twitter's character limit sparks new style of writing
I was once quick to mock Twitter as yet another sign of society's incredible shrinking attention span. Now I find myself searching for the perfectly written tweet. And I'm not alone.
Business
June 29
Facebook tops for online evidence: divorce lawyers
Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.
Business
June 27
Man convicted for hacking Obama's Twitter account
A court in central France has convicted a young Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the account of President Barack Obama, and given him a five-month suspended prison sentence.
Business
June 25
Twitter reaches settlement after accounts hacked, privacy breached
Twitter has agreed to settle charges by federal regulators that it put the privacy of its users at risk by failing to protect them from data security lapses last year that let hackers access their accounts.
Business
June 21
David on Demand: Your tweet is his command
In an bizarre social experiment, a man has agreed to give up free will for a week and do whatever he is told by people who log in to his account on Twitter.
Business
June 20
World Cup contributes to Twitter outages
When a World Cup goal is scored, Twitter celebrates.
Business
June 18
Twitter takes Japan by storm as millions 'mumble' online
Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions "mumble" - the translation of tweet - and give mini-blogging a distinctly Japanese flavor.
Business
May 11
Twitter bug lets users claim fake celebrity followers
A Twitter glitch has allowed users to game the popularity contest by making it appear that celebrities had subscribed to read their mini-blog postings known as tweets.
Business
May 11
Twitter bug lets users fake followers
A Twitter glitch has allowed users to game the popularity contest by making it appear that celebrities had subscribed to read their mini-blog postings known as tweets.
Business
May 11
Twitter no timewaster when other line of communication fail
Too busy for Facebook, let alone Twitter? Tracey Barnett has second thoughts.
Business
May 11
Twitter infiltrator: 'I'm a nice hacker'
He's unemployed and isn't much of a computer expert. The Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the accounts of President Barack Obama and singers Britney Spears and Lily Allen says he wanted to reveal just how vulnerable online data systems are to break-ins - and he says he didn't mean any harm.
Home & Garden
May 8
Twittering away with your plant
Until recently, my plant and I didn't have much to say to one another.
World
May 8
Are you a twit if you don't want to Twitter?
Eily Toyama gave in after friends pestered her to join Facebook. But she used her cat's name instead of her own so she could avoid networking requests from people she didn't really want to connect to. And don't even ask her about Twitter unless you want to get an eye roll.
National
December 16
Twitter traffic spikes as NZ shakes
Scientists at the US Geological Survey (USGS) monitoring the Twitter micro-blogging service to gauge real-time public reactions to earthquakes have looked at New Zealand tremors.
