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Social media – does it increase or decrease loneliness?

New research has been revealed suggesting that social media is actually leading to people feeling more isolated than ever.

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It pays to be cheeky sometimes!

The power of being cheeky is not something that should ever be underestimated, and there are some lovely examples of people doing that at the moment.

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Twitter Artist

A new craze is sweeping the twittersphere, one in which users are falling over themselves to come up with the most original tweets. The quirkier, the better. But why?  The reason is simple. They want to see their tweet transformed into a drawing by UK artist Scott Weston.

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There’s just no recipe for going viral

Humans are a tricky species to understand, there’s no doubt about it, and a study by Twitter has highlighted just how unpredictable we can be.

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Happy Birthday to Twitter!

Today, March 21st, 2013, is Twitter’s seventh birthday: happy birthday Twitter!

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LivesOn: providing social media updates even after death

A couple of weeks ago I watched a television programme that really unsettled me.

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Twitter calls on low-paid humans in hashtags battle

Technology marches on, but it sometimes just isn’t intuitive enough: there’s a surprise.

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