Facebook has advice for New Zealand travel firms: get a good app.

The New York Police Department discovered the perils of trying to engage with Twitter to boost its own image after a hashtag campaign went badly awry.

The Chinese government has shut down thousands of websites and social media sites in a bid to purge the internet of online pornography, it was revealed today.

Just over a week ago, the Governor-General's Facebook page was just another fairly ordinary page in the social media world. But no longer - thanks to the royals.

A Kiwi who uses a silver fern symbol on his Twitter account has been warned about copyright infringement by a government agency.

The Independent's Ian Burrell gets the low down on how phenomenally successful site Buzzfeed is seeking to refresh itself.

Mary McCoy from Continuum sings a humor-laced theme song for this year's Social Media Marketing World called "Let's Get Social". Courtesy of YouTube/Phil Mershon

Spending too long on Twitter makes you more likely to break up with your partner, a study claims.

The ascent of social media has produced a type of hyper-experience of mortality, Rosemary Overell writes, following the death of Peaches Geldof.

The online world has made trying to be yourself, to be honest and ordinary and real, more risky and exposing than ever, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

San Francisco's union workers plan to march on Twitter's headquarters to give it a bill for the $56 million tax break it got three years ago.

When I set out to explore Twitter, I had no idea it was possible to spend so much time to such little purpose, writes David Fisher.

Selfies are daily expressions for many. So what does the modern generation do when we start feeling a little bit sexy? Take a selfie, of course.

New Zealand internet sensation Jamie Curry and charismatic Kiwi The Mad Butcher are behind two anti-bullying campaigns aimed at teens.

"Did I upset you, boss?" That's how the owner of one of Turkey's biggest media groups apparently began a telephone conversation with the country's premier after his Milliyet newspaper published a story that displeased the leader.

Auckland Airport is backing a push to attract food tourists to New Zealand from emerging markets.

The no-makeup-selfie hashtag that went viral in the UK has arrived in New Zealand, with at least one cancer organisation riding on the coat-tails of its success.

Want to write a book? Make a movie? help someone in need? Hop on to one of the many crowdfunding sites and ask for a few dollars, writes Alan Perrott.

Twitter has launched a new tool to find anyone's first tweet. Here's how celebrities and politicians opened their Twitter game.

We're all a bit sick of the 'selfie' but one particular dopey burglar has more reason than most to hate the ubiquitous social media trend.