The 46th annual Super Bowl was a stupendous hit --- not just in terms of it being the most-watched program ever in television history, but also for giving the popular microblogging service Twitter a new ‘tweet-per-second (TPS)’ record for a sporting event!

In what apparently is part of Twitter's strategic move to expand its business around the world, the popular micro-blogging site said in a Thursday announcement that it has refined its technology so as to selectively `censor' messages on a country-by-country basis, rather than on a global basis.

With police authorities claiming that popular social networking sites - like Facebook and Twitter - are apparently being monitored by burglars to find out when the users make a mention of their plans for holiday activities, it is being advised that the users of social media sites should refrain from disclosing their whereabouts during the holiday season this year.

Around 20 years back, the pager used to be the sole mobile communication instrument.

However, very soon the pager got replaced by flask-size mobile phones which today are considered antiques by many, being replaced by the widest range of smart phones. And as goes the current status, none of these new and smart gadgets ever let us lose connection with the rest of the world, making sure we’re always online.

Alex Wilson and his dad helped catch a thief, Craig Royal in Darlington, Co Durham, as he running off with a shoplifted Apple device from a pedestrian. Royal was getting past the shop on his bike when he was captured on camera by the pint-sized sleuth, who further uploaded the picture on Twitter when he got back home.

Co-founder of the world’s third largest social network, Twitter, Mr. Evan Williams has said that the site would achieve one billion users mark.

Dr. Christopher Sibona , a PhD student in the Computer Science and Information Systems program at the University of Colorado Denver Business School has found that frequent, unimportant posts on Facebook is the number reason for ‘unfriending’, a term described as the ending of online friendship.