More than half of all MPs now use the social networking site Twitter, a survey suggests.

Facebook, Google, Twitter and other social networking sites will support European citizens’ initiatives that will be launched starting 1 April, corporate representatives said during a conference in Brussels last week. More »

Labour MP Diane Abbott walks off to take a phone-call in the middle of a Sky News interview in which she was asked to explain controversial comments made on the social networking site twitter.

Candidates for the party nomination in the US presidential race still need to press the flesh in an age of social networking and TV debates

A 60-year-old man has been charged with making threats and sending abusive messages to Conservative MP Louise Mensch via emails and social networking sites.

Nick Clegg has said that the government won’t “start cutting people off” from social networking sites, following the riots two weeks ago. He also pointed out the value of such networks in emergency situations like these: As it happens, those social media sites were also quite useful for the police to communicate with people, and

A 61-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of making threats to the Conservative MP Louise Mensch via email and social networking sites.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is considering banning people from social networks if they were suspected of inciting violence online. The plans have raised concerns among free speech advocates.   "If people use social networking sites to provoke violence, we must stop them." Those were the words of British Prime Minister David Cameron in the wake of large-scale looting and violence...

Over on the MHP blog, Mark Pack makes a good point about the calls from some politicians to ban or restrict the use of social networking in response to the riots. Here’s some of what Mark has to say: Yet from some commentators and MPs there were immediate demands to suspend, curtail or otherwise regulate

The police received a savaging in parliament earlier. I lost count of the number of MPs who relayed the anger of their constituents about riot police who stood by as buildings burned. Cameron’s defence - that the police took time to adapt to a new threat posed by crime facilitated by social networking – did not satisfy the doubters. By the end of the debate, there was consensus that po...