A Twitter tirade once again allows Pakistan to play the victim.

The Taliban has drastically ramped up its presence on services like Twitter and WhatsApp in the past few years.

In India, even the number of Facebook "likes" counts for politicians.

The potential is enormous, but a change in mindset will be needed.

How to follow the Umbrella Revolution on social media.

Also, China's "creeping invasion" and is India China circa 2001? Some general interest links.

Sonya Rehman speaks with a young Palestinian on life in Gaza and the role of social media amid the devastation.

Using the hashtag #CancelColbert, social media users are calling for The Colbert Report to be cancelled.

Iran’s diplomatic outreach using Twitter has been unprecedented – and successful.

The South China Morning Post reports that internet users within the new FTZ will have access to banned websites.

Twitter will integrate a “report abuse” button for individual tweets.

Organizing topics with a simple “#” now available for Facebook users.

SE Asian leaders are becoming increasingly savvy with social media. The results have been positive–mostly.

Brad Pitt, who is banned from entering China, has opened a Weibo account and is studying Mandarin. Why?

AKB48’s Minami Minegishi shaved her head and made a tearful apology online for having a boyfriend.

The popular Twitter-like site is used by Chinese citizens, foreign diplomats, and government officials in remarkably innovative ways.