First lady Michelle Obama got in the game of pleading for the safe return of the 200-plus Nigerian girls abducted from their Nigerian families by radical Boko Haram members — with a Twitter photograph ...

Last year, an inveterate internet observer called 2010 "peak cyber utopia". That was the year Western social media users basked smugly in the belief that their technology had liberated numerous Arab ...

The hashtag was born on IRC networks before migrating to Twitter and evolving into something that people verbalised ("hashtag fail"). Now some factions are trying to turn it into a gestural expression ...

“The role of hashtags is important for trademark owners, who may have a real interest in registering their trademarks with the ‘#’ symbol when it is possible.” With its widespread use on social ...

THE use of social media for crusade has been on the rise this year, with celebrities using the medium to air their views on public issues. One of the trends used for the purpose of emphasis is the ...

The #BringBackOurGirls hashtag movement, which is intended to pressure the Nigerian government to accelerate efforts to rescue more than 250 girls captured by Boko Haram, has somehow resurfaced a ...