Facebook and Twitter are stirred with the tributes, obituaries and lamentations since morning after the news of the untimely demise of Syed Fahim Munaim spreaded.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, when asked, says that he will tell fans about his plans to get married through Facebook or Twitter.

There is a furious response from viewers who think TV weather presenter Liberte Chan has been treated outrageously being handed a cardigan and told to cover up during her broadcast.

Microblogging site Twitter is to stop counting photographs and links in its 140-character limit for tweets, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Twitter users praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to post pictures of his mother's first visit to his official residence in Delhi on social media.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will leave French champions Paris Saint-Germain at the end of this season, the Swedish superstar confirmed via Twitter on Friday.

Disagreements about who should do housework blew up on Twitter in Saudi Arabia this week, and offered some insight into popular attitudes in the country.

West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has raised eyebrows by saying he named his baby daughter "Blush", a nod to an infamous sexism scandal which engulfed him in January.

A fresh tremor rattles Ecuador overnight, a 6.1 magnitude jolt that was the strongest aftershock since a lethal earthquake killed hundreds of people on Saturday. There was no immediate report of further damage.

The final-over clash between Bangladesh and India at Bangalore prompts the International Cricket Council (ICC) to rethink it as the most memorable finish ever.

As the internet becomes dominated by images, Facebook is launching a system which can "read" photos and tell visually impaired people what appears in them.

Sir George Martin, the legendary music producer who shaped the Beatles into the world's most important pop music force, has died, Ringo Starr said on Twitter. He was 90 years old.

Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first athlete to surpass 200 million followers on social media.

For the last 48 hours Twitter has been… well, all of a Twitter. An article in Buzzfeed suggesting that the social network was about to introduce what is known as an algorithmic timeline - promoting tweets deemed most relevant rather than publishing them in reverse chronological order - sparked a wave of what can only be described as furious panic.

Twitter says it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 "for threatening or promoting terrorist acts".

Four key Twitter executives are to leave the company as the social network continues its attempt to turn around its fortunes.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, the most followed Indian on Twitter, scores a fan following of 19 million on the micro-blogging platform.

Indian National Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's recent interaction with the students at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai has Twitter buzzing again.

Theoretical physicist Laurence Krauss sent the scientific community on Twitter reeling when he suggested that researchers may have detected, for the first time, an astrophysical phenomenon called gravitational waves.

Actor Russell Crowe lashes out at an airline on Twitter, after they refused to let his son's hoverboards on board.