THE oldest person on Twitter, Ivy Bean, died this week at the age of 104. The great-grandmother from Bradford had first hit the headlines when she got ‘bored’ with one social network – Facebook – and switched to Twitter. She ‘tweeted’ about her love of fish and chips, her online friendship with celebrity Peter Andre [...]

FLEDGLING businesses in Greater Manchester want more help to market themselves on the internet as the recession bites, according to a Sound Communication survey. They want better technical support, more training and stronger creative input to help market their businesses more effectively on the web. Although most are ‘reasonably’ or ‘very well equipped’ to use [...]

A SOCIAL networking site about a new schools programme has attracted more than 600 friends, mainly young people. The website – on the giant MySpace system – carries the latest news about the school building project, up-to-the-minute photographs of the buildings under construction, comments and questions from young readers and links to newspaper articles. It [...]