Twitter came under an unprecedented cyber-attack on Thursday night, which blocked some 17 million subscribers from accessing the micro-blogging platform. Clues on the origins of the attack suggest the Russian-Georgian conflict may have spilled over into the social networking site. Read more...

Some job-hunters will to anything for their CV to stand out, like try to hype it up on the Internet. Two Observers decided to put try their luck using social networks and video sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Daily motion to spread their video CVs far and wide. So did it work? Did employers return their calls and, ultimately, hire them? Read more...

The shooting broke out at 9:30 this morning in a school in Winnenden, a small town north of Stuttgart. The incident reached newsrooms at 10:30am. Just under an hour later, a resident from the town was giving her account live on FRANCE 24. So how did we find her? Thanks to Twitter. Read more...