New Year is a time to wish your dear ones with prosperity, good health and many good wishes for the new coming year and saying good bye to all what the previous year gave.

Twitter is known as the most popular micro-blogging site to easily make all your dear ones read what you are wishing them and what all is going through your mind. But unluckily, the site got crashed yesterday due to overload of New Year messages and greetings.

Britain’s national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, is now making use of micro-blogging site Twitter to detail their day to day work.

Ordnance Survey said the sharing their work on Twitter would help general public understand their role better.

To begin with, a total of 14 surveyors across the country will send tweets as they go about recording and measuring changes for the maps.

Twitter users can now include photos in their text messages to share them with others, thanks to the MMS feature newly introduced by the micro-blogging site.

The social networking site has deployed one of the BlueVia APIs to provide users with a new way to update their profiles. Users can send pictures from any MMS-enabled handset to their profiles and the pictures will be exhibited in instantaneously.

In its document sent to developers about some forthcoming updates on the popular social network, Facebook has reportedly mentioned that it is working on a feature which will help its members to channel their profile directly to a linked Twitter account.

Facebook, the world's most popular social networking site, has introduced a Subscribe feature that allows users to subscribe to posts even from non-friends.

With the Subscribe feature, Facebook has become more like micro-blogging site Twitter and Microsoft's new social networking platform Google+.

The FBI has launched a probe into the recent hacking of NBC's Twitter account, which allowed hackers to spread fake information about the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs and a plane crash at New York's Ground Zero.