Almost from the very moment of its first tentative tweet, legions of onlineMorrissey fans and others had converged on what was assumed to have been the new home of the bequiffed one on Twitter. "Hello. Testing, 1, 2, 3. Planet Earth, are you there? One can only hope..." came the tweet from the new account, @itsmorrissey, whose authenticity was bolstered by the fact that it had been endowed with a blue verified badge from Twitter itself.

A cross platform collaboration among The Guardian, The Telegraph and YouTube is aiming to shake up coverage of the 2015 General Election by bidding to stage a leaders debate between the main contenders for Prime Minister. The audacious bid is being played as an attempt to introduce new audience interaction techniques whilst appealing to a younger audience.

Terrorist organisations such as Al-Qaeda are gradually increasing their presence in social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, a new report has found. A study from the Woodrow Wilson Center Commons Lab in Washington warned that this usage could pose a big challenge for security agencies across the world.

On Tuesday, Vice News announced a new, collaborative project with five other digital news outlets to pool their coverage of the Ukraine crisis around one hashtag and re-distribute it from an independent Twitter account. Ukraine Desk - involving Vice News, Quartz, Mashable, Mother Jones, Digg and Breaking News - is publicly billed as a low-cost experiment in digital collaboration as the "institutions of journalism become more porous", Monika Bauerlein, co-editor of Mother Jones, told Journalism.co.uk.

Police did not want the full extent of hacking including that of Kate Middleton and Prince William known publicly because they wanted to protect the News of the World's "victims", it was claimed at an Old Bailey trial. Clive Goodman, the paper's former royal editor who yesterday admitted hacking Middleton 155 times, said that he has been "completely open, honest and frank about phone hacking".

Being socially active does not necessarily reward retailers with custom, according to new data. Using social media to speare a branded voice onto your target audience doesn't put pounds in the till, suggests data from the e-tailing group which found that a credible social presence online delivered little e-commerce traffic.

The new app is based on PageSuite's latest feed-driven app CMS that enables publishers to execute a multi-channel publishing strategy with minimal resource, says PageSuite. Selected editorial content is fed into customisable templates before being scheduled to launch. Before publishing, users have the option to edit the page order and tweak layouts and once published they are able to edit live content.

The European Court of Justice's 'right to be forgotten' judgement has re-ignited the debate over data and privacy in the digital world - and even the UK's cyber law experts are polarised on the correct way to balance the internet of information with the interests of the individual.

The publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, has shrugged off the ongoing fallout from the phone hacking scandal to post a 49 per cent increase in its digital revenues for the year to 27 April. This helped mollify a 9 per cent decline in advertising revenue at its print titles, which also stabilised losses in circulation to just minus 1 per cent over the period.

Natalie Nougayrde, the first female editor-in-chief of the prestigious French daily Le Monde, has quit after a power struggle with top staff who staged a protest last week over her plans to revamp the newspaper. Last week, seven senior editors stepped down from their posts after disputes over a planned new print format, a tablet edition and disagreements about planned personnel changes.