Cabinet Chief, Aníbal Fernández stated today that “to say that a person is politically responsible for drug-trafficking is an act of cowardice”. The statement was made in response to strong accusations of his involvement in drug handling, made by head of Civic Coalition, Elisa Carrió.
Three days after Economy Minister Amado Boudou was picked by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to be her running mate in the upcoming presidential elections, he took to Twitter to make his first public statements after the nomination. “I am thankful that the president chose to trust me,” he tweeted from Paraguay, where he’s attending a Mercosur summit.
The head of the National Electoral Board, Alejandro Tullio, admitted that “it may be banned to continue the campaign via Twitter or Facebook” during the electoral ban and did not rule out the possibility of setting sanctions to those who do not respect the rule.
Adrian Bono returns with the latest edition of Trending Now, exploring the most talked about news on Twitter in Argentina this week.
This week, Adrian explains some of the most popular trending topics on Twitter Argentina, including the vulture funds case and a nationwide strike that paralyzed the entire city with (somewhat hilarious) consequences.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner affirmed that the Civil Court that has blocked the decree to expropriate La Rural grounds has "exceeded its limits."
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner hit back at the International Monetary Fund today following it decision to sanction Argentina for its lack of credibility regarding official statistics.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner stated in her Twitter account that the "ban to act as rating agencies should be the most real and effective sanction" for those agencies that failed the citizens and investors.
Anonymous hackers attacked Twitter this week and may have gained access to passwords and other information for as many as 250,000 user accounts, the microblog revealed late.
US President Barack Obama opened a new front in the battle between Democrats and Republicans over the best way to avoid the year-end "fiscal cliff" - Twitter.
The US presidential election votes counts had an intense aftermath in Twitter, as the social network registered more than 11 million tweets over the election a few hours after the polls closed in the East Coast.
Two service outages within the course of several hours rocked microblogging platform Twitter on Thursday, as users worldwide reported significant down-time and slow service across both Twitter's website and mobile applications.
Twitter suffered its second widespread outage in 5 weeks, a blow to the micro-blogging service's reputation and reliability.
British Prime Minister David Cameron attracted tens of thousands of followers, along with a barrage of abuse, when he began posting messages on Twitter to mark the opening of the Conservative Party conference.
By Adrian BonoTwitter users in the United States were fuming today at the microblogging site and denouncing free speech violations after the Company’s CEO admitted to “editing out” any trending topics containing obscenities.
Hate mornings, especially on Mondays? You may be surprised to know that much of the world doesn't share that grumpy feeling.
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams plan to revive Obvious, the company they conceived years ago as a technology project incubator that eventually spawned Twitter.
US President Barack Obama took to Twitter today to press his economic agenda, using the popular social media site to tweak Republicans and advocate for a deal to reduce the deficit.
A US court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential documents.
Pope Benedict gave a qualified blessing to social networking, praising its potential but warning that online friendships are no substitute for real human contact.
Reports that Google has held takeover talks with Twitter that value the microblogging site at as much as US$10 billion are "just a rumor," Chief Executive Dick Costolo said.
Any old cobra can hiss, but the one that tweets had more than 150,000 people following Twitter posts about her escape from New York City's Bronx Zoo, including top politicians and celebrities.
French TV and radio stations can tweet as much as they like but must stop telling people to consult them on Twitter and Facebook, which amounts to advertising for those sites, France's media regulator says.
Social media moved into a new realm in technologically backward Cuba when Cuban President Raúl Castro's controversial daughter Mariela began tweeting and quickly got into the Twitter equivalent of a shouting match with dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez.
Venezuela's verbose Hugo Chávez is offering to send supporters his tweets to their mobile phones as the socialist president fights a vigorous opposition campaign across the Twitter-mad country ahead of an Oct. 7 election.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ended a weeklong silence after his latest cancer treatment with a call to state television, singing a folk song and vowing to deepen his self-styled socialist "revolution."
Without even setting foot in Brazil, Twitter attracted 40 million subscribers in this social network-obsessed nation.
Footballer Gerard Piqué published a picture of his baby’s feet on his Twitter account today, sporting a pair of personalized trainers. He labelled the post “Milan’s feet”.
Los Angeles Lakers All-Star guard Kobe Bryant finally succumbed to the social network Twitter when he opened his own verified account today.
Greek triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was withdrawn from the London Olympics after causing an uproar at home for a tweet slammed as racist, the Greek Olympics team said.
Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has been fined and warned about his future conduct over a comment he made on Twitter where he referred to Chelsea's Ashley Cole as "choc ice", the English FA said.
Argentine David Nalbandian has said he will appeal against an $8,000 fine after denying on his Twitter account that he threw water at an Australian Open staff member.
Brazil’s football icon Pelé has launched his official Twitter account on Monday and reached to the 38,149 followers in an hour.
Musician Luis Alberto Spinetta confirmed through a letter that he has “lung cancer,” but assured he is in good conditions “in the midst of a treatment towards the definite healing.”
Celebrities may want to resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the new year after so many of them tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011.
Veteran actor and comedian Steve Martin is writing a book based on his Twitter posts, with all profits going to charity, the book's publishers said.
British actress and model Elizabeth Hurley used her Twitter account to announce that she had separated from her husband of three years, Indian businessman Arun Nayar.
Pop star Lady Gaga has revealed her new album title, "ARTPOP" along with a photograph of a matching new tattoo, announcing the highly anticipated follow-up to her 2011 album, "Born This Way."
Thailand's government is up in arms over a tweet by pop sensation Lady Gaga about buying a fake designer watch in a Bangkok street market and has complained to the United States.
The Rolling Stones will perform a short warm-up gig in Paris later today for a few hundred fans and announced on Twitter that they were selling tickets for 15 euros ($19.45) each at a music store in the centre of the city.
Facebook Inc's recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram removed a key element of its integration with Twitter, signaling a deepening rift between two of the Web's dominant social media companies.
Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber with his hordes of fans known of Beliebers became the King of Twitter on Tuesday, topping fellow pop star Lady Gaga as the user with the most followers.
BuenosAiresHerald.com Deputy Editor Adrian Bono hosts a new episode of Trending Now, where he explores some of the most talked-about topics on Twitter in Argentina. Featuring this week: #AFA, #MAXIMA, #AMIA and #GANANCIAS.
This week, Adrian explains some of the most popular trending topics on Twitter Argentina, including New York Judge Thomas Griesa, the 7D deadline and River Plate's search for a new coach.
This week, Adrian Bono explains some of the most popular trending topics on Twitter Argentina, including the #SuperClasico frenzy, the unexpected #Macri-Moyano alliance and the frigate Libertad scandal in #Ghana.
It's this end-of-the-world special edition of the Trending Now webisodes, Adrian Bono explains how Carlos Bianchi, Uritorco and Libertad could be the last trending topics you see before the universe evaporates.
Adrian Bono returns with the final episode of Trending Now of the year, where he explores the most-talked about topics on Twitter in Argentina.