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14-year-old arrested after homemade clock is mistaken for bomb, prompts #IStandWithAhmed on Twitter

By Colleen Shalby

Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested Monday after a teacher mistook a clock he made for a hoax bomb. Outraged Twitter users have responded to his arrest and suspension with #IStandWithAhmed.

Twitter dives into campaign fundraising

By Julie Bykowicz, Associated Press

The social media service Twitter on Tuesday introduced a feature that enables political candidates and advocacy groups to raise money directly via its mobile application, making it quicker and easier to harvest small donations from followers.

Why Salman Rushdie is probably quitting Twitter

By Frank Carlson, Corinne Segal

Salman Rushdie will be the first to tell you that free expression is imperative to society. But there's one way the award-winning author does not always enjoy speaking out: on Twitter.

#ILookLikeAnEngineer challenges public perception of gender norms in tech

By Colleen Shalby

Sexist online reactions to an ad campaign featuring a female engineer prompted engineers to share their stories on Twitter with the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer.

Cracking the code to a more diverse tech workforce

By PBS News Hour

The giants of Silicon Valley -- Google, Twitter, Facebook -- report that just three to four percent of their workforce is black or Hispanic, and men outnumber women by more than two to one. Now, tech companies are investing hundreds…

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Twitter removes plagiarized jokes, sparking copyright debate

By Corinne Segal

Joke about a juice cleanse on Twitter, and you just might begin a national conversation on copyright laws.

Could Facebook or Twitter stop the next terrorist attack?

By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials.

Facebook is changing how parents raise their kids

By Laura Santhanam

Most parents who use social media today find information about raising children through their networking sites and care little about what information friends and family share on social media about their kids, a new study finds.

Latest black church fire in South Carolina not a result of arson, authorities say

By Joshua Barajas

A federal law enforcement authority said Wednesday that a fire that destroyed a black church in Greeleyville, South Carolina, was not arson.

Twitter shuts down Politiwoops website

By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press

Twitter has killed a website dedicated to publishing the deleted tweets of politicians, including members of Congress, governors and candidates for president, the Sunlight Foundation announced Thursday.