In a notably tone-deaf global culture clash the Syrian Electronic Army has hacked the Onion's Twitter feed to gush about Syria's beleaguered President Bashar Al-Assad and zing Israel. One of the funnybone-challeged hackers told the New York Times ...

After decades of coups and political instability, Pakistan is set for its first democratic transfer of power since achieving independence. LinkAsia's Wajahat Khan presents the latest on the general election, and what the landmark event means for t...

Social media in Japan and South Korea has been abuzz after recent nationalist moves by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. While some stand by Abe's actions, others expressed confusion and disappointment with Japan's swing to the extreme right.

The feds are on the hunt for the techie who hacked the AP Twitter site to post a fake report that a bombing at the White House had injured President Obama. The "news" sent the Dow tumbling 100 points in two minutes, but the markets recovered quick...

The hacktivist Weev, known in the non-virtual world as Andrew Auernheimer, may be the first person ever to live tweet (apparently) from behind bars @rabite. Auernheimer is serving 41 months in prison for taking data from AT&T's network. He's g...

The hashtag #nowthatchersdead was trending worldwide on Twitter following the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher -- but a lack of capitalization also caused alarm to some of US entertainer Cher's fans.

Kenyans and Nigerians have been engaged in a Twitter battle following reports that Kenya's national football team the Harambee Stars had been denied a proper training ground. The Kenyans also complained about their hotel accommodation as the team ...

Chris Hadfield has become the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station but the veteran astronaut is probably better known for his social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube, where his videos include plenty o...

"Can a search engine succeed if you have no concept of the free flow of information?" That was the question posed by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee on his Sina Weibo account, in response to the failure of China's government-run Jike search en...

When hermetically-sealed North Korea ran its third nuclear test this past week, the news first broke on Asian social media. It soon became the top trending topic on China's Sina Weibo and on Twitter in Japan and South Korea. Here is a sampling of ...