Beauty site apologises for mistaking Whoopi Goldberg for Oprah Winfrey at Oscars

Total Beauty has promised to donate $10,000 to charity after admitting there were ‘no excuses’ for its Twitter error

Damn Daniel, deleted: death of a viral video after Twitter hack

Despite millions of views, the Damn Daniel video was deleted on Monday morning after a hacker gained control of its creator Josh Holz’s Twitter account

#OscarsSoWhite: a 10-point plan for change by the hashtag’s creator

How should the Academy Awards address its diversity problem? The woman behind the hashtag, April Reign, shares her suggestions

Kanye West tells rock producer Bob Ezrin: ‘Please never speak in public again’

Rapper calls out the Pink Floyd and Lou Reed producer in series of angry tweets after ‘old guard’ Ezrin compares West unfavourably with Macklemore

Play nice! How the internet is trying to design out toxic behaviour

Online abuse can be cruel – but for some tech companies it is an existential threat. Can giants such as Facebook use behavioural psychology and persuasive design to tame the trolls?

Business of Fashion boss: ‘People on the inside don’t see how exciting it is’

How founder Imran Amed turned a bedroom blog into a must read for a trillion dollar industry

Twitter can be cruel, but Stephen Fry didn’t have to leave

The anonymity of the app allows people to dispense instant, often thoughtless, judgment. But there is a right to reply, and you can always switch off

Cynthia Nixon: Emily Dickinson would have loved Twitter

A Quiet Passion actor suggests that celebrated 19th-century American poet was far from cut off, and would have been ‘emailing and tweeting all day long’

Amani al-Khatahtbeh: ‘It’s transformative to have Muslim women in the tech world’

The editor-in-chief of MuslimGirl.net, the leading online magazine for Muslim women in the US, talks about prejudice and being inspired by Batman

This attempt to shame Susan Sarandon is no more than Victorian

Oh whoops – the actor’s outfit for the Screen Actors Guild awards evening caused a Twitter storm

Apple says iPhone ‘Error 53′ is to protect customers’ security

Security measure is necessary to prevent use of fraudulent parts, says company, after thousands of users affected

James Franco to direct Twitter tale of stripper Zola’s sordid road trip

Drama is based on viral tweets by Aziah ‘Zola’ Wells – that won praise from Ava DuVernay and Missy Elliott – about her brush with a violent pimp

Twitter’s US users fall by a third in two years – report

Social network has suffered from stagnating users, according to figures it publically reveals, but third-party data suggests that the real story is worse still

Stock rout demotes Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey from billionaire to millionaire

With both companies struggling on the stock market, Dorsey has fallen out of the three-comma club with a net worth of $944m, Forbes reports

It’s time for a virtual tea break and to draw together

Most illustrators spend a lot of time alone… and many eat a lot of toast to comfort themselves. That’s why Sarah McIntyre has made a Twitter-based virtual studio tea break that everyone can join in with