• Tweet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has never paid to boost his social media profiles. But his office acknowledges some of his 1.4 million Twitter followers aren’t genuine. ‘Neither he (Mr Rudd), nor his office, has ever paid to boost the Prime Minister’s Twitter followers, Facebook friends or Facebook likes,’ a spokesman for Mr Rudd told [&hellip

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  • Tweet The television networks’ worms were split on who won the leaders’ debate, but the verdict from the blue birds of Twitter was unanimous: they were not impressed. The commentary on social media was that the debate was boring, the leaders were evasive and the rhetoric was more of the same. John Collins tweeted that [&hellip

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  • Tweet Twitter says it is stepping up security measures for the popular messaging service, following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media organisations and others. Twitter said it would implement a new login verification system, ‘a form of two-factor authentication’ which is ‘a second check to make sure it’s really you’ when a [&hellip

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  • Tweet Twitter has began to allow ads to be targeted at users based on the words written in ‘tweets’ and messages forwarded to followers at the popular social network. Previously, contents of Twitter messages relied on algorithms that pool the interests of users to send them potentially relevant ads in the form of tweets ‘promoted’ [&hellip

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  • Tweet Buzz has continued to build about the social media giant Twitter’s launching of a new music app. Key ‘influencers’ have already been given a sneak preview of the software ahead of a public roll-out, expected within days. Tech site AllThingsD said the music service, originally mooted for a Friday launch, was expected to be [&hellip

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