Developers and users of Twitter have reacted angrily to changes made by the social network to restrict creation of third-party applications.

Any new app that wants to serve more than 100,000 users must now seek the company's explicit permission.

A new feature allows Facebook users to save content to read later, putting it in a folder available across all devices.

Although the new feature is not yet widely available, reports suggest it will appear first on Facebook’s mobile website and iOS app, but will soon be available in the desktop version of the site.

Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts.

Last week, during its first quarterly earnings report as a public company, Facebook revealed it had 955 million monthly active users and 543 million monthly active mobile users. In the social-networking giant's 10-Q filing published last night, the company disclosed that nearly 20 percent of the latter number, 102 million users, accessed the social network in June solely from their mobile device.

Facebook may be more populous, but Google+ is better-liked.

That's the message from a new set of data released Tuesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Google+, the 1-year-old social network that pundits declared dead last year, ties Wikipedia at the top of the list of social media sites, with a score of 78 out of 100.

Facebook is the least-liked social network on the list, with a score of 61 on the group's ranking of e-businesses.

If we ever needed more proof that one day Lady Gaga will take over the world and turn us all into flamboyant little activists, the singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and general badass has now launched her own social network.

Little Monsters has been a private beta entity for some time, but today it's been released into the wild and any Gaga adoring creatures can sign up to connect with others, share all kinds of content and talk about Lady G in a slick Facebook/Pinterest/Chat Room kinda space.

Yahoo had sued the social network in March claiming 10 of its intellectual properties had been infringed.

Facebook subsequently bought 750 patents from IBM and counter-sued. It later bought hundreds more patents from Microsoft to strengthen its defence.

The firms said they would now cross-license innovations from each other and collaborate on future projects.

Social media statistics company known as Socialbakers have recently released a report on the most Socially Devoted countries on Facebook, the report places Kenya at number two on the countries with socially devoted brands on Facebook with 83% response rate while South Africa comes in at a global position of sixth. Kenya and South Africa are the only African countries represented on the top 10 countries. According to Socialbakers, the data was taken from brand Facebook pages in these countries from 30th of March 2012

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The Internet in particular and ICT generally are key components in Uganda's efforts to become an information-driven, knowledge based economy.

As more of the world comes online, the Internet offers Uganda an unparalleled opportunity to diversify and become more competitive as a trading nation: to increase entrepreneurialism and employment. Its importance is reflected in government's focus on promoting e-commerce and e-government.

Twitter has 100 million active users around the world, the social networking site’s chief executive has announced.

Dick Costolo, speaking at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, said that more than half of the site’s 100 million active users log in each day. He said that 40 per cent of them simply read the site, without tweeting themselves.