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Following the recent allegations of Lord Ashcroft who claims that David Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig while at university, Twitter fans have gone mad posting hilarious tweets.

We know LOL and OMG but the kids have one up over their parents. ParentInfo, however, is a new site that helps parents better understand the lingoused by their children. These include acronyms such as:
GNOC (Get naked on camera)
IWSN (I want sex now)
PAW (Parents are watching)
CD9 (Parents are around)
MOS (Mum looking over shoulder)

Slovenian journalist and publicist Sebastjan Erlah has caused "a scandal on Twitter" when he suggested migrants should be shot at, Tanjug is reporting.

Twitter failed to add users at a quick enough pace for investors in the second quarter even as revenue grew sharply, feeding concerns about whether it can ever become a mass-market service like Facebook or Google.

The Greek police cyber crime squad announced the cracking of an internet pornography case involving a young girl, aged 17, as the victim. The investigation was launched after the mother of the young girl reported that her daughter had been talking to strangers on social media and had, at some point, sent racy photographs.

A Turkish court blocked Twitter for more than two hours after ordering a publication ban on photos and videos of the deadly bombing in southeastern Turkey in the latest instance of a gag order on the media after major crises.

Caitlyn Jenner has 2.5 million Twitter followers from the moment she revealed her new identity on the cover of Vanity Fair.

Her fans can now buy a Caitlyn Jenner doll, according to “OK” magazine, bearing a full body silk bathing suit and luscious long brown hair. The toy has already become a hit on Twitter.

A young Turkish woman accepted a marriage proposal tweeted by her boyfriend, whom she met on Twitter two years ago, after a thousand people "favorited" the tweet.

Things started to unfold when Onur Cengiz, a social media strategist for an Istanbul-based advertising agency, wrote about his willingness to propose once his tweet received 250 favorites. 

?We are trying to write serious things on our Twitter accounts. But some of our ministers seem to be obsessed with Twitter. One of them boasts about his thousands of followers,? a skeptical Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesperson Bülent Ar?nç said last year in a press conference.

Dumping social media stocks that show any sign of weakness is trending on Wall Street.

Shares of LinkedIn Corp. plunged 21 percent in after-hours trading on April 29 after the professional networking service gave a disappointing outlook for the second quarter, weighed in large part by its pending purchase of online learning company Lynda.com.