At a time when we’re sharing more and more on the web, Matt Buchanan wonders if deletion is the only way to privacy: http://nyr.kr/YkLXq0

Nilkanth Patel on dunking—and being dunked on—in the age of YouTube, Twitter, and 24-hour sports networks: http://nyr.kr/YUmPUz

Is Gulnara Karimova a philanthropist and pop star or a “robber baron?” Natalia Antelava tweets with the daughter of Uzbekistan’s dictator: http://nyr.kr/UhKfVs

Yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI sent out his first tweet, under the handle @pontifex: “I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart.” Back in 2011, Paul Rudnick anticipated what some of the octogenarian Holy See’s Tweets—or “pearls of wisdom” as the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications called them in the Times—might be. From the vault, here is “The Pope’s Tweets”: http://nyr.kr/TXB7mG

Cartoon by Harry Bliss. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/RlF99m

Twitter has been instrumental during past moments of political upheaval, typically as a means for citizens to communicate outside the wrath of oppressive states (such as in the Arab Spring). But news, and precedent, were broken here: this is a narration of real, physical violence by the agents of violence, all as the violence is being wrought. And this raises a number of questions for the start-up giants who founded the various platforms…

Emily Greenhouse writes “The Tweets of War,” on Israel’s and Hamas’s recent use of Twitter: http://nyr.kr/UDWiWL

Last week, our Twitter game show, Questioningly, asked participants to create titles for the inevitable Petraeus movie. 

Many titles played off the similarity between “general” and “genital,” or “undercover” and “under cover.” Others went straight for military jokes: the best of these was “Dishonorable Discharge,” which was submitted by @turnoffdark and @yamageo. And then there were the entries that isolated the tension between Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley to yield “Single White Gmail” puns.

Click-through to discover the winner of this week’s contest.

Want to play Questioningly? Follow us on Twitter @newyorker, and look for a new question every Friday!

Lauren Collins recommends eight key Brits to follow on Twitter whose dispatches “regularly serve to create a sense of the city as much as they reflect it”: http://nyr.kr/QlhIMd

In this week’s Questioningly contest, we asked people to imagine that they were tweeting from an imaginary official Twitter account for Earth.  The results took two tacks, some people imagined they were representing humanity, while others tweeted as the Earth itself.  Click-through to see the best entries: http://nyr.kr/MTIqDW

This evening, the New Yorker Fiction Department (@NYerFiction) will start tweeting Jennifer Egan’s new story “Black Box,” which will appear in its entirety in the Science Fiction issue, out on Monday.  We asked Egan what inspired her to structure her story in paragraphs of a hundred and forty characters or fewer; click-through to read her response: http://nyr.kr/JpQHDv