Meet Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher, the world’s longest-married living couple. Herbert is 104 years old and Zelmyra is 102. They’ve been married for 86 years. Their favorite activities include sitting on the front porch and watching passing trains, counting cars, and socializing with neighbors. And soon, socializing with you on the world wide web. The Fishers [...]

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has reacted to a Twitter protest against sanctioning media and limiting free speech. The protest, which has seen tweets with hashtag #freevenezuela elevate the subject to a trending topic, calls for everything from freedom of the press to Chávez’s resignation. Chávez’s response was to brand Twitter a threat to the country’s security, [...]

One of the many beauties of the WordPress engine is the ease with which plugins can be used to automate, or make extremely quick and easy, social media. Twitter has a particularly seamless integration, and even boasts its own category in the WordPress plugin repository. Here’s a list of 10 useful plugins rated 5 stars by [...]

NBA players can’t get enough of Steve Nash’s brand of videos. He has made a few short films involving his teammates on road trips this season, and the most recent may be the funniest one yet. The video features Leandro Barbosa dressed up as an Avatar character on the team plane – in a dream [...]

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards and cutting-edge social media have collided tonight, as British songstress Imogen Heap’s dress has been interfacing with Twitter live from the event’s earlier, non-televised festivities. The idea? Heap says it’s to let fans be with her on the red carpet, as the dress uses its own Twitter account to display pictures [...]

Hours from the much-anticipate reveal of Apple’s wildly speculated Tablet, Twitter users are tweeting about the product so frantically that the micro-blogging service is being crippled under its weight. Processing time, or time line delays, at 11:00am ET was clocked at over 4 minutes for a number of users. This means any news or rumors that [...]

Thursday, January 28th members of the Westboro Baptist Church, now famous for their picket signs declaring “God Hates Fags” (and domain name www.godhatesfags.com), will aim their protests at a new target: Twitter. Chief among their protest tools will be…Twitter. Church members have planned what appears to be a massively convoluted and confusing protest simultaneously against and [...]

The International Space Station posted its first direct Tweet today. “Hello Twitterverse!” wrote Flight Engineer TJ Creamer, who was the prime mover in gaining internet access for the space station. The Twitter feed can be accessed here.