LONDON - Had he been alive today, Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of India, may have overcome his aversion to technology and embraced the mobilizing power of software such as Facebook and Twitter to organize massive pro-democracy protests, claims George Paxton of the London-based Gandhi Foundation.

WASHINGTON - The first astronaut to tweet from space has passed an important social media milestone, as in he now shares his daily experiences with more than a million followers on the micro-blogging service.