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Hackers sent out a message on an Associated Press account claiming that two explosions had injured President Obama.  

New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is tweeting about her enthusiasm for the job during her first full day at work.

Jewell said Monday on the social media site Twitter that she’s “honored & humbled” and “ready to get to work on behalf of all Americans.”

“I look forward to working w/ great employees @Interior, Congress & citizens to oversee our public lands & waters,” Jewell said in another tweet.

Former President Clinton has joined Twitter, with a little help from comedian Stephen Colbert.

In an interview taped over the weekend at the Clinton Global initiative and aired Monday night on Comedy Central, Colbert asked the former president about his online habits. Clinton noted that he rarely used email or social media, and did not have a Twitter account.

"Would you like to break into the 21st century right now, and send your first tweet?" Colbert asked, whipping out a smart phone.

Mike Tyson is launching a petition as he joins a bipartisan group of lawmakers in urging President Obama to posthumously pardon the first African-American world heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson.

Tyson created the Change.org petition Wednesday after meeting with Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

The majority leader, along with fellow Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mo Cowan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), introduced legislation last month to pardon Johnson.

At the time, Reid — an amateur boxer in high school — said in a statement, “Johnson’s memory was unjustly tarnished by a racially-motivated criminal conviction, and it is now time to recast his legacy.”

Johnson, who died in 1946, was imprisoned for a year under the Mann Act, for crossing state lines with his white girlfriend.

In the petition, which garnered more than 700 supporters within hours of launching, the 46-year-old retired heavyweight champ writes, “I started this petition to keep the Jack Johnson pardon at the forefront of peoples minds. I am honored to do this for his legacy.”

The tweet, linking to a U.S. comedy show that mocked the Egyptian government's recent crackdown, sparked outrage from Egyptian officials.

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is publicly backing Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) filibuster over the Obama administration’s drone-strike policy – despite a Twitter mix-up.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) called out C-SPAN on Thursday for misidentifying him as Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.). 

Both Flake and Heller are Mormon. 

So what gives, CSPAN? I guess all mormons look alike? twitter.com/JeffFlake/stat…

— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) March 7, 2013

Flake actually was confusing C-SPAN's error with the Senate Recording Studio's, according to a number of C-SPAN staffers who quickly responded on Twitter. 

Twitter announced Thursday that it adopted a new security technology that's aimed at cracking down on phishing, a popular method used by hackers to send emails to users that appear to be from a Twitter-related email address in order to gain access to their account information.

The San Francisco-based company said it started using DMARC, a security protocol, earlier this month to prevent bad actors from sending emails to users from a poser Twitter.com email address. DMARC — which stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance — cuts down on phishing attacks by allowing an email sender, such as Twitter, to indicate that their email messages are authenticated and also direct email providers to either reject a suspicious message or flag it as spam in a user's inbox, according to the security protocol's website.

In a blog post published Thursday, Twitter Postmaster Josh Aberant said the company hopes users feel more at ease when receiving emails from Twitter because of its adoption of the security technology.

Twitter said on Monday that 1.1 million people tweeted messages during President Obama's second inauguration.

The figure easily surpassed the 82,392 tweets sent during the inaugural ceremony four years ago.

Although there was more excitement for Obama's first inauguration, the social media service was still in its infancy in 2009.

Sen. Claire McCaskill is keeping memories of her mother close at hand as she’s sworn in at the Capitol.

On Thursday, the Missouri Democrat wrote on Twitter, “Really missing mom. Wearing her wedding rings today. She would’ve been so happy and making new friends all over the Capitol.”