Slate social media editor Jeremy Stahl employed a simple but effective strategy: he issued the correction as a reply to the original tweet. That's why the correction begins "@Slate," and it's why it refers to the photo without having to show it again. Anyone viewing the original tweet can see the resulting correction in the stream of replies.

A Belgian magistrate has mulled blocking Apple's websites there, according to local reports on Tuesday, as spotted by Tech.eu. This was as a result of the still-ongoing kerfuffle over Apple and warranties - although EU law says consumer goods should automatically come with a two-year warranty, and although Apple acknowledges as much on a webpage, the firm still advertises its gadgets as being covered by a one-year warranty.

Paddy Power's controversial ad campaign featuring Oscar Pistorius, which offers "money back if he walks", is to be investigated by the UK's advertisingwatchdog after receiving nearly 50 complaints. The adverts, which offer refunds for losing bets if the South African Paralympian is found not guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been criticised for being in bad taste.

Far too many companies are attempting to reach out to new audiences with aggressive content marketing strategies, which is having a detrimental effect on their campaigns. That's according to Charlie Laidlaw, who believes content management can live up to the potential of being the new PR if companies start to use it in a more subtle and effective manner.

The study of 1,200 Twitter users found that 35 per cent follow a main newspaper brand on Twitter, while 17 per cent follow a sub-brand, such as the Sun's Sunmotorsport account. In addition, 60 per cent said they engaged with news providers on Twitter that they wouldn't normally read in print, while 43 per cent actively posted link to articles and 57 per cent retweeted interesting links and comments.

Local authority websites in the UK are struggling keep pace with rapid rise in mobile access to their services, with one in three accessing websites via smartphones, a new report revealed. According to Socitm's Better Connected survey, only 31% of council websites have reached the 'Better Connected' standard for mobile access.

Despite flat revenues for the year, the FT Group delivered underlying profit growth of 17 percent year on year in 2013 to GBP55 million. As CEO and 25-plus year FT veteran John Ridding tells TheMediaBriefing, that increase in profitability is being driven by a fundamental shift away from a reliance on print advertising towards digital subscriptions

Based on a Pinterest-style structure and design, founder Mark Potts described Newspeg as "a site where people can really easily share and save news stories, in a visual kind of way, in a way that picks up graphics from the story but also lets people know where it came from". Users can create their own boards based on their interests, pegging articles onto each board and creating their own personal network of stories.

Ask.fm now has 100 million registered users, the Latvia-based social network said on Monday. The service is apparently used in 150 countries and questions posted there - Ask.fm is kind of like Quora, only skewed more towards the teen demographic - now generate a billion answers a month. Bearing in mind that you don't have to be registered to use it, Ask.fm also said it gets 190 million unique visitors each month.

According to Twitter management platform SocialBro, businesses on the social media site will lose 15% of new followers within three weeks unless they make an effort to engage early. Sample data from the company has shown that famous or influential individuals (100,000+ followers) will lose one to three per cent of new followers in the first week and 10 per cent after three weeks.