Social Networks Stories for 2014

Twitter Bug Locks Out Many Users 69
Facebook Apologizes For 'Year In Review' Photos 218
Startup Acquisitions Herald Virtual, Augmented Reality Apps From Facebook 11
Federal Judge: Facebook Must Face Suit For Scanning Messages 48
How a Wildfire Helped Spread the Hashtag 36
Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better 37
Facebook Drops Bing Search Results 33
How Your In-Store Shopping Affects the Ads You See On Facebook 69
An Algorithm To Prevent Twitter Hashtag Degeneration 162
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Twitterbot 54
Twitter Use By Romney and Obama In 2012 Highlight the Speed of Social Media 47
Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile 130
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech 436
Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives 88
Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her 189
The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" 110
How Facebook Is Influencing Who Will Win the Next Election 72
Facebook Planning Office Version To Rival LinkedIn, Google 91
Facebook Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries For Backup Power 41
Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills 70
German Spy Agency Seeks Millions To Monitor Social Networks 59
New Facebook Update Lets You Choose News Feed Content 54
Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years 206
Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment 716
Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features 116
Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech 109
New GCHQ Chief Says Social Media Aids Terrorists 228
How Google Can Get the Flu Right 31
Facebook Wants You To Vote Tuesday 165
Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor 125
Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps 294
Can Ello Legally Promise To Remain Ad-Free? 153
We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello 269
Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M 167
The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll 571
Facebook To DEA: Stop Using Phony Profiles To Nab Criminals 239
Snapchat Will Introduce Ads, Attempt To Keep Them Other Than Creepy 131
Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster 130
Eggcyte is Making a Pocket-Sized Personal Web Server (Video) 94
Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy 210
More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks 101
DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook 191
Why Do Contextual Ads Fail? 249
Ask Slashdot: Is There an Ethical Way Facebook Can Experiment With Their Users? 141
The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown 305
Downtown Project Suicides Shock High Tech Community 185
Facebook Ready To Get Into Healthcare 99
Online Creeps Inspire a Dating App That Hides Women's Pictures 482
Could Maroney Be Prosecuted For Her Own Hacked Pictures? 274
Interview With Facebook's Head of Open Source 29
Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 42
Google Quietly Nixes Mandatory G+ Integration With Gmail 139
Small Restaurant Out-Maneuvers Yelp In Reviews War 249
NY Magistrate: Legal Papers Can Be Served Via Facebook 185
Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join 178
Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans 108
Responding to Celeb Photo Leaks, Reddit Scotches "Fappening" Subreddit 307
Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone 131
Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media 220
Study: Social Networks Have Negative Effect On Individual Welfare 76
Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium 193
Illinois University Restricts Access To Social Media, Online Political Content 130
Researchers Made a Fake Social Network To Infiltrate China's Internet Censors 49
Book Review: Social Engineering In IT Security Tools, Tactics, and Techniques 45
Email Is Not Going Anywhere 235
Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League 226
Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases 457
Twitter Reports 23 Million Users Are Actually Bots 84
Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews 183
Inside the Facebook Algorithm Most Users Don't Even Know Exists 130
Google+ Photos To Be Separated From Google+ 114
Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet 928
New Digital Currency Bases Value On Reputation 100
Pseudonyms Now Allowed On Google+ 238
Google's Experimental Newsroom Avoids Negative Headlines 109
Gov't Censorship Pushing Users To More Private Messaging In China 47
Employees Staying Away From Internal Corporate Social Networks 131
Baton Bob Strikes Back Against Police That Coerced Facebook Post From Him 203
Google Kills Orkut To Focus On YouTube, Blogger and Google+ 71
Facebook's Emotion Experiment: Too Far, Or Social Network Norm? 219
In 2012, Facebook Altered Content To Tweak Readers' Emotions 130
Human Language Is Biased Towards Happiness, Say Computational Linguists 86
Emotional Contagion Spread Through Facebook 127
LinkedIn Spam Lawsuit Can Continue 50
Man Arrested For Parodying Mayor On Twitter Files Civil Rights Lawsuit 163
Facebook Lets Users Opt Out of Targeted Ads 97
Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to 15 Years For Organizing Protest 70
Thai Police: We'll Get You For Online Social Media Criticism 86
NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images 136
German Intelligence Agency Planning To Follow Big NSA Brother On Shoestring 80
Linus Torvalds Reads Your Mean Tweets 62
Iranian Hacker Group Created Fake News Organization For Social Engineering 57
Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations 304
The Internet Is Now Part of the Crime Scene 145
Twitter Capitulates To Governments, Censors Users 91
Data Mining Shows How Down-Voting Leads To Vicious Circle of Negative Feedback 293
Data Mining Reveals How Wording Influences Tweet Propagation 21
Foursquare Splits To Take On Yelp 24
Google Plus Now Minus Chief Vic Gundotra 93
NYPD's Twitter Campaign Backfires 173
VK CEO Fired, Says Company Under Kremlin Control 149
The Limits of Big Data For Social Engineering 95
Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist 169
Click Like? You May Have Given Up the Right To Sue 216
44% of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted 121
Can Web-Based Protests Be a Force for Change? 76
Chinese Man On Trial For Spreading False Rumors Online 53
Study: People That Think Social Media Helps Their Work Are Probably Wrong 40
How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion 1037
More On the "Cuban Twitter" Scam 90
Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future 218
Social Media Becomes the New Front In Mexico's Drug War 120
Facebook, Google Battle To Bring Internet To Remote Locations 49
Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password 367
Turkish Finance Minister Defends Twitter Ban 94
Turkey Heightens Twitter Censorship with Mandated IP Blocking 102
Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies 96
The Net Routes Around Censorship In Turkey 82
After FOIA, Homeland Security Releases Social Media Monitoring Guides 21
The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly 260
Yik Yak, After Complaints From Schools, Suspends Its Service In Chicago 167
First Study of the Evolution of Memes On Facebook 56
Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales 310
Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive 116
Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 387
Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page 506
Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System 149
Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? 280
WhatsApp Founder Used Unchangable Airline Ticket To Pressure Facebook 144
The Science of Social Participation 48
How Jan Koum Steered WhatsApp Into $16B Facebook Deal 136
Gracenote, Privacy, and the Rise of Metadata As a Valuable Asset 33
Venezuelan Regime Censoring Twitter 152
Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices 462
How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse 136
LinkedIn Ditches Feature That Was a 'Dream For Attackers' 70
Facebook Estimates Around 10% of Accounts Are Fake 140
Rome Police Use Twitter To Battle Illegal Parking 157
Startup Out of MIT Promises Digital Afterlife — Just Hand Over Your Data 241
Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion 448
Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? 293
Facebook Mocks 'Infection' Study, Predicts Princeton's Demise 193
Snapchat Account Registration CAPTCHA Defeated 52
Facebook Is a Plague That'll Burn Out In a Few Years, Says Study 338
In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page 324
Tweets and Threats: Gangs Find New Home On the Net 144
Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts 339
Dallas PD Uses Twitter To Announce Cop Firings 118
Should Facebook 'Likes' Count As Commercial Endorsements? 189
Twister: The Fully Decentralized P2P Microblogging Platform 169
UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership of "Pinterest" Trademark 133
Headhunters Can't Tell Anything From Facebook Profiles 209
The Math of Gamification 36
Google's Comical New Social Networking Patent 45