With Democrats and Republicans locked in a tense showdown over the US debt, both sides have taken to social network Twitter in a bid to score points in 140 characters or less.Since talks began, leading the Democrats, President Barack Obama's communications team and their Republican counterparts on House Speaker John Boehner's staff have scrambled to get out their message the traditional way -- in print, on talk radio and in televised addresses.With time running out for a deal to raise ...

Over the years, I've done a ton of research on retweets.I've found five specific points that are the most powerful ways to get more retweets, so I rolled them up into one simple infographic. If you're curious where this data came from, check out the two links in the first paragraph, which explain the research surrounding the science of retweets.

A man who used the online nickname "Evil" has been charged with cyber attacks that police alleged could have caused considerable damage to Australia's national infrastructure.The 25-year-old unemployed truck driver, who had been unable to find a job in information technology, faces 49 charges after a six-month investigation into his online activities.The activities include hacking into the systems of Platform Networks, one of the 13 service providers for the National Broadband Network (NBN), the largest infrastructure project in Australia's history.Potentially, ...

This week I take a look at the most popular of the infamous Tapbots app range, Tweetbot, a stylish, easy to use and cleverly designed Twitter client that blows all its competitors out of the water. To start off, Twitter has, and will always be, a very weird and interesting part of the Internet for me. Millions of people posting pics, sharing stories and having conversations in 140 characters or less.Rich Mulholland once said, and I still believe it is ...

Seventy-one percent of online Americans were using video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo as of May, up from 66 percent a year ago and 33 percent five years ago, according to the survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.Read more on Gearburn.com

It has been revealed that the perpetrator of the recent horror massacre in Oslo may have been influenced by a right-wing South African blog, reports online publisher News24.It has come to light that Anders Behring Breivik, the man behind the Oslo bombings and mass shootings, borrowed heavily from several sources, including the controversial blog iluvsa. The blog is hosted by Google's blog service, Blogger.In Breivik's rambling 1 500-page Manifesto on Western Civilisation, there is a link to what he calls ...

The US military is surrendering to YouTube. Less than three years after its launch, the Pentagon is shutting down TroopTube, a video-sharing site set up for US soldiers and their families.A statement posted on the home page of TroopTube said it would close on 31 July.TroopTube was launched in November 2008 at a time when many members of the US armed forces were restricted from using YouTube.Its stated mission was to be "an online video site designed to help military ...

Just when you thought it was safe to concenrate on your work and not be distracted by anything on the interwebs, Old Spice proves you wrong. Fabio, the "new" Old Spice guy has challenged the "old" Old Spice guy, Isaiah Mustafa, to a duel. So if you have plans for Tuesday, July 26th 12pm EST (5pm GMT), cancel them because this promises to be interesting.Italian male model/actor, Fabio, who appeared on the cover of hundreds of romance novels throughout ...

There was little the rest of the world could do but sit back and watch in shock as the events in Oslo unfolded on the afternoon of 22 July. While we tried to digest the news of the bomb blast in central Oslo, news began filtering in of an even worse occurrence -- a mass shooting at youth summer camp.In the hours and days after the tragedy, we started to learn more about the twisted world of ...

If you're a writer of any stripe you will have come across numerous recommendations for Scrivener as the ultimate tool for collating research, scribbling down ideas and finding the structure of the story you're trying to tell.In fact, though it's marketed as software for novelists, Scrivener's powerful feature set is a boon to anyone who needs to wrangle large amounts of information.I've used Scrivener almost exclusively since 2007, so when I made the switch from journalism to user ...