The jokes and memes about Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase as proof of a massive midlife crisis are at least partly on point. The internet, for one, is having its own midlife crisis. Many of us who have ...

One of five (19%) US internet users now uses Twitter or another status-update service, according to an Oct. 21, 2009, article from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. This figure marks a big ...

The lawsuit Twitter filed this month against the Indian government is not a story of Silicon Valley versus a state. It is a case about universal free expression, and a much-needed example of a company ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dani Di Placido covers film, television, and internet culture. Have you heard of the Dead Internet Theory? It’s been gaining ...

Free speech access to the internet as we know it could soon be dramatically transformed, with the Supreme Court set to hear a high-stakes pair of oral arguments over holding social media companies ...

Twitter once aspired to be the town square of the internet. Today, it’s more like wandering through a third-tier business convention. You can still have some interesting conversations — as long as you ...

Twitter has banned more than 100 accounts that pushed the pro-Russian hashtag #IStandWithPutin for participating in “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” days after the hashtag trended on Twitter amid ...

Now that Google has made it possible to personalize searches with social information from Google+ and Picasa, some of its social-media rivals are getting hot under the collar--starting with Twitter.

SPOKANE, Wash. — A North Idaho internet provider, Your T1 WIFI, confirmed it is still blocking Facebook and Twitter from its WIFI service for some customers who request it due to concerns over ...

In an era when we can take great photos simply by pressing a button on a smartphone, we often forget the astonishing effects that can be achieved with a traditional camera and a roll of film. But one ...

The notorious Twitter troll and alt-right figure Douglass Mackey, known better as his alter ego, Ricky Vaughn, was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of election interference stemming from ...

Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits. Credit...Illustration by Erik ...