SOCIAL MEDIA

"We will show you the power of the Turk!" the hackers tweeted from the compromised accounts.

"Nobody believes you Trump!" one Twitter user wrote.

"Comey's mastery of the subtweet is one of the only good things to come out of 2017," one Twitter user added.

Baroness Jenkin used the c-word in what is believed to be a House of Lords first during a debate on online abuse.

Some social media users speculated that Trump is "feeling the heat" as the investigations gain momentum this year.

Meme that originated on Twitter being taken seriously by teenagers who bite into pods of laundry detergent and upload videos on social media.

Days after Carrie Gracie resigned from the BBC in protest over equal pay, the corporation's main Twitter account tweeted suggesting people start the year by asking for a pay rise.

"Someone told Alexa to turn off the lights," one Twitter user wrote.

"As clueless as his dad," one Twitter user wrote.

"My money is on Oprah", one Twitter user wrote.

"At least she's a real 'stable genius'," one Twitter user shot back.

"All those pants on fire," one Twitter user cheekily wrote.

Twitter ruthlessly mocked the US president's blunder in light of his recent claim to be a "stable genius" and "like, really smart."

"Trump saying he's a 'very stable genius' is like Nixon saying 'I'm not a crook," Congressman Dan Kildee tweeted.

Trump and the White House have fiercely denounced the book by a "totally discredited" author as "fake" and full of lies.

The nuclear button is in the spotlight following the boasts of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.

"You hear more intelligent, mature dialogue from children in the playground," one Twitter user wrote.

"Is this more 1984 or V for Vendetta? I can't decide which futurist hellscape our evil overlord is trying to mimic," one Twitter user wrote.

Last year, as part of his New Year resolutions, Silicon Valley's Mark Zuckerberg pledged to travel across America. This year, his challenge will be more difficult: fixing Facebook.

"Over my dead body," one Twitter user wrote.

Twitter's response has already prompted fierce backlash and protests with people accusing CEO Jack Dorsey of being "complicit" in Trump's behaviour.

KFC has taken on Ronald McDonald by clearly referencing Donald Trump's provocative nuclear threats against North Korea.

Donald Trump's frightening and controversial remarks come after Kim said in a New Year's Day speech that the US should know he had a "nuclear button" at his desk.

"If Trump was a rooster, he'd try to take credit for the sunrise," one Twitter user wrote in response to the US president's remarks.

A Twitter user who reported the violent tweet was informed via email that Clarke's account was locked for violating Twitter rules.

Internet users left stunned after Donald Trump takes credit on Twitter for declining airline passenger fatalities.

Exiled NSA leaker Edward Snowden has spoken out amid the civilian uprising in Iran, writing online that the US government could help protesters by working with Google.

"There's more humanity in the animatronic," one Twitter user wrote.

"Yes, we have a very, very special counsel for just that purpose," one Twitter user chimed.