Twitter continues to be a big topic of conversation in regard to the Olympics but sadly, not in a good way. We’ve gone from the mildly annoying #nbcfail campaign to serious threats, racist comments from athletes, banning and even an arrest.

Two athletes have already been banned from competing after posting racist and violent Tweets. Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella vented his anger at the South Koreans after a loss. Before the games began, Greek triple jumper Voula Papachristou was banned for remarks about African immigrants. It’s implied that Papachristou’s remarks were politically motivated, but clearly Morganella’s motivation was anger at a loss. Not that anger is a good excuse, but we’ve all said things we wish we could take back, though most of us never said it so loud and so publicly.

This year’s Olympics is putting Twitter to the test. In a partnership with NBC, they’re the most visible social network of the games and it’s led them to some huge highs and some deep, deep lows. And we’re only 3 days in.

It began on Friday, when nearly 10 million people Tweeted about the start of the Olympics. Or 5 million, depending on who you want to believe. The lower number comes from Bluefin. They’re putting together excellent infographics for each day outlining the Twitter numbers and highlighting the highs and lows of the social graph.

The difference in the first day numbers is probably semantics. Bluefin appears to be counting only Opening Ceremony Tweets where Twitter UK is counting all Olympic mentions for the day. (Feel free to correct me if that’s wrong.)

Facebook is known for randomly changing things and annoying millions of users in the process. Well, not this time. This time, they got it right.

Facebook has announced a change to the way photos are displayed and it’s large. . . your pictures, I mean. This is what your photo pages will look like going forward:

Pretty, huh? This page is extra cool because she’s doing fun things in a cowboy hat, but I bet this new design will make everyone’s pictures look cooler.

Gone are the ugly thumbnails, the even rows and boring layout. With the new photo design, you choose which photos to highlight in the same way you highlight a post. Easy, I assume, because my account hasn’t switched yet, so I can’t test it.