When Usain Bolt sprinted clear of compatriot Yohan Blake to complete an unprecedented second straight Olympic 100m-200m golden double.

Just after the 2011 Rugby World Cup, Samoan centre Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu received a six-month ban from the IRB for a series of offensive Twitter rants.

After publicly issuing media guidelines for players to follow on their coming tour of Australia, the Lions lost the plot with their official account.

It's 6.58 on an unremarkable Tuesday night in Mt Wellington, and influential sports jock Andrew Mulligan is about to go live on air.

Alan Perrott finds out just how different @DanCarter is from the real Dan Carter ...

Twitter in sport is generally seen as an athlete's game but one coach bucking that trend is Dean Vickerman.

Reporters Kris Shannon and Steven Holloway investigate how Twitter has changed the daily experiences of Kiwi athletes - for better and worse.

Few top businesspeople in this country think social networks such as Twitter and Facebook place their firms' reputations at risk, new research suggests.

MYOB New Zealand executive director, Scott Gardiner on establishing ambassadors for your brand instead of doing it all yourself.

Check out this list of the most popular musicians on Twitter.

Former Apple chief evangelist and now entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki says he wants to help New Zealand be even more enchanting on his upcoming visit here on Wednesday.

With so many eyes glued to social media during work time, employers are increasingly considering how sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook can help them hire staff.

Warren Buffet famously said: "I don't invest in things I don't understand." writes Liam Dann. On that basis you can be pretty sure he isn't one of the mega-wealthy US investors who have been buying into kiwi tech stocks.

Facebook's net income and revenue grew in the first quarter of the year, helped by an increase in mobile ad revenue, a figure some sceptical investors are watching closely.

More than 8000 people are using social media to jostle their way to the front of a virtual queue and win a Samsung phone.

The Edge DJ Dominic Harvey is facing a hail of criticism over a 'sexist' tweet saying it's hardly ever a good idea for women to rap.

Returned service clubs have embraced Facebook and Twitter - and a controversial sponsorship deal with gambling giant SkyCity - to reach out to younger New Zealanders for this year's Poppy Day appeal.

Facebook users are being warned to secure their profiles after an Auckland woman's account was hacked and more than $300 was charged to her credit card.

If waking up to find your old tweets dredged up and splashed on the front page of a Sunday newspaper wasn't enough of a rude awakening for Paris Brown, the ordeal had only just begun.

Air New Zealand's exposure in China will be boosted in a leading Chinese reality show You Are The One.

A Hokitika man who crashed a party in Greymouth, assaulted a woman and broke a window, tried to avoid prosecution by shaming his accusers on Facebook.

Facebook users have to pay 65 cents to message anyone outside their group of friends - unless they're contacting people like Richie McCaw, who is worth twice that.

A new New Zealand lost pet service is looking to tap into the power of social media.