Tweet News

Phuket - International R&B star Rihanna may soon be adding "crime fighter" to her resume after her tweets led to the arrest of a bar owner in Thailand whose lewd shows she said left her "traumatized."

New York - How many times have you been drawn to a quote in an article that you wish you could share without the hassle of "copy and paste"? Thanks to a new experiment from The New York Times, "copy and paste" and "tweet" may soon be old news.

TIME Magazine's senior national correspondent, Michael Grunwald, has been caught out sending a tweet which stated he can't wait to report on the execution of Julian Assange by drone strike. (Updated).

Madrid - Former actor and model now Spanish politician, Toni Cantó, is famous for his many gaffes, particularly on Twitter. Now he has sent a tweet mocking Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's slurry diction.

Tattoo artist, Kat Von D, 31, and Joel Zimmerman, known as DJ Deadmau5, 32, will not be getting married, as they both have confirmed this.

New York - Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez shared an unapproved update on his hip injury, angering the team's general manager Brian Cashman.

On Monday, after reading a fake message from someone who claimed to be the British journalist Piers Morgan, Spanish tennis star Rafael (Rafa) Nadal tweeted news of the death of former South African president Nelson Mandela.

When the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Twitter account of The Onion (the satirical, parody news website), at first people thought it was just the "normal" news. Since then both sides have confirmed the attack, with ever-increasingly morbid "humor."

In the wake of recent attacks on Twitter accounts, including that of Associated Press on Wednesday, Twitter is planning to roll out two-factor authentication to make things a little more secure.

On Tuesday an @AP tweet caused panic and hit the stock market, by broadcasting that the White House had been the subject of two explosions, and that President Barack Obama had been injured. AP's Twitter account had been hacked.