It appears anyone can get a Twitter account these days, even a massive government document.

Online magazine The Root has just launched 'The Chatterati', a new webpage that watches Twitter users, phrases and hashtags trending in the black community.

What is appropriate language to use online and in everyday life? Janell Burley Hofmann, a mother of five who helps us figure out how to behave with technology, shares her advice.

Putnam Investments says certain words used on social media can trigger regulatory scrutiny.

One tweet sent the stock market downward, but just for a minute. Now the Commodity Futures Trading Commissions is looking at how social media and the markets should interact.

A fake tweet from the AP caused the Dow to fall almost about one percent on Tuesday.

Terminated employees used to go quietly. But Twitter is becoming a popular site for announcing one's own professional demise. Is that a good thing?

Twitter is launching a comedy festival in conjunction with Comedy Central, and it will all be on Twitter and Vine. How funny can you be in 140 characters and six seconds?

Many companies have learned how to use social media as a useful marketing tool, but some have made some major faux pas along the way.