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Jakarta is the biggest “Twitter city” in the world. Henry Belot of The Citizen looks at the impact of social media on next year’s Indonesian presidential election — and it’s not all rosy.

Australia’s largest companies say they’re using social media, but they’re not using the networks most Australians use. Twitter rules, ahead of Facebook.

You could have the box seat for the next terrorist attack — whether you like it or not. The Boston bombings and resulting social media storm were a window to the revolution online.

The British county of Kent appointed a new youth commissioner — who turns out was acting like a bit of a youth on Twitter. The scandal is a top tabloid fodder across the nation.

Another pointer for Murdoch on racism … this dog really did fly … Jehovah’s Witnesses still on the beat in ACT …

Too many entrants to the Daily Leadership Beat-Up Award to even choose a winner, plus other political issues of the day.

Hacking is getting easier, and any criminal with a cause — or even without one — can now bring down companies’ websites and access users’ personal information. The latest victim is the ABC.

Janet Albrechtsen is joining Insiders next year, but she thinks it’s a decade too late. Also: a fruity media release and an ABC Twitter fail.

Trial by media? Trial by Google is the real threat to privacy, Lord Justice Brian Leveson told a Sydney audience today — fresh from delivering his media ethics report to the UK government.

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas heats up again, Crikey intern David Donaldson traces war by social media.

Organisations looking to connect with Aboriginal communities can learn from social media activist Luke Pearson, founder of popular Twitter account @IndigenousX. Pearson speaks to Crikey’s health blog Croakey.

You may have heard of black hat search engine optimisation, but what about black hat social media? Patrick Stafford of SmartCompany asks if it works.

Social media will enhance or destroy the journalism model, depending on who you believe. Gideon Haigh on Twitter, Facebook and measuring news in the third chapter of his investigative special for Crikey on the future of the media.

Bleak humour about the Queensland budget and a reminder about the many inequities within the healthcare system were two of the highlights of last week’s Tweets about public health, writes Melissa Sweet.

The trolling debate is merely the mainstream media doing what it’s always done: try to make money from enraging readers. But it’s unlikely to work.

Facebook and email are Australians’ preferred social media, depending on age. And Twitter barely features for them.

Chickshite novelist turned Tory MP Louise Mensch has kicked a minor Twitterspat into play by demanding that Labour repudiate a flock of Labour activists talking about party planning for the day of Margaret Thatcher’s death.

Twitter has generated its fair share of scandal in the London Olympics — but there’s an upside to the social media games, writes Crikey intern David Jeans.

In today’s Media briefs: Marian Wilkinson leaves Global Mail … Food fight: The Age dishes up a win to The Oz … Twitter suspends journo’s account … Jonah Lehrer resigns from The New Yorker in disgrace …