Social Media: News

21 Jun 2017

X

Facebook, Twitter being increasingly used to spread political propaganda

In social media, truth takes a back seat and propaganda rules; it's not a random observation but the summation of a detailed study made by Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Research Project.

19 Jun 2017

Karnataka

Bengaluru bit by yoga bug, from old to young everyone's practising

Bengaluru has reached a yoga frenzy with people as old as 79-year-old to young men, women practising yoga and not missing it for a single day.

19 Jun 2017

X

Two-factor authentication: Protect your online accounts against hackers

Considering the fact that every second one or more accounts are getting hacked across the world, a little bit of precaution won't hurt.

19 Jun 2017

Facebook

Facebook bug reveals moderators' identities to suspected terror groups

Facebook acknowledged that a security bug last year resulted in the company inadvertently leaking the personal details of its content moderators to suspected terror groups using the social network.

17 Jun 2017

Reddit

Reddit raising funds, company's valuation to be $1.7bn

Giving a major boost, venture capitalists are funding popular link-sharing website Reddit that will give the company a total valuation of $1.7 billion.

17 Jun 2017

India

Bollywood will always make no-brainers because they feed the industry

Every time a typical Bollywood flick releases, social media pundits come up with posts like, "When will we get out of a masala flick and get some serious cinema in India" or "The plot doesn't make any sense."

15 Jun 2017

Facebook

Facebook makes GIFs available for comments

To mark the 30th anniversary of the GIF, Facebook has introduced a new feature enabling users to add GIFs to comments.

12 Jun 2017

Facebook

Binky, the social media app that does nothing. Literally.

Someday, technology would grow to an extent that humans wouldn't even have to think for themselves. It seems we are one step closer.

11 Jun 2017

Thailand

Thailand: 35 years prison sentence for 10 anti-monarchy pictures

A man in Thailand has been sentenced by its government to 35 years in prison. His crime was uploading 10 pictures, videos and comments which authorities felt was critical of Thailand's monarchy on social media.

07 Jun 2017

India

From Taher Shah to Dhinchak Pooja: The stars of cringe-pop

Music lovers might cringe at the thought, but 'cringe-pop' has emerged as the newest sensation. Sometime ago, Dhinchak Pooja took over our computer screens with 'Swag Wali Topi', clicking 'selfies'.

06 Jun 2017

Facebook

Facebook has been vanishing your friends for some time now

Have you ever wondered what happened to all your friends on Facebook, why do they not post anymore or even if they do, why don't you get to see them anymore in your newsfeed?

03 Jun 2017

Facebook

Facebook to launch a messaging app for teens

According to tech-magazine The Information, Facebook is planning to launch a version of its Messenger app only for teenagers. It would reportedly be called "Talk".

01 Jun 2017

India

Homemakers generated Rs. 54,000cr in sales via social media platforms

Whenever we think about e-commerce, it's usually enterprises like Flipkart, Amazon and how they are changing the consumption pattern in India.

30 May 2017

Pakistan News

Reports show terror outfits flourishing on Pakistan social media

Reports indicated that at least 41 out of the 64 terror outfits banned by the Pakistani government are extremely active on social media.

21 May 2017

X

Twitter boss apologizes for Trump's win

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams apologized for the role his company reportedly played during the US presidential elections, which ended with Donald Trump's victory.

17 May 2017

India

Massive social media influence helped BJP in 2014: Stanford Study

A Stanford Study on BJP's social-media strategy revealed that the party's massive social-media influence helped it comeback to power in 2014, thwarting a decade-long Congress rule.

14 May 2017

Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, the man behind a social media empire

The world is on social media and Facebook is ruling the roost with Instagram in the foray; the circle is complete.

08 May 2017

Alibaba Group

China's Internet gets more shackles added to its existing burden

China already has a strongly fortified Internet firewall in place to block elements that the government considers to be a misfit in their present scheme of things.

04 May 2017

Facebook

Facebook for terrorists is in the making, says Europol

Facebook needs to move aside for a major social media revolution that is about to happen, a platform that would bring all the radical extremists together to plot mass genocide and also to complement each other on their dead-body count.

04 May 2017

India

After global outage of few hours, WhatsApp is back online

Popular messaging service WhatsApp experienced a global outage on Wednesday that lasted for several hours before it was resolved.

03 May 2017

YouTube

DaddyOFive YouTube channel gets prosecuted for abusing their own children

When people cross the line in a mad dash to be famous, it leaves an unsavory taste in the mouth.

02 May 2017

Facebook

Facebook is peddling ads by targeting teenagers who feel "defeated"

Facebook currently has more than 2 billion users and it's not shy of exploiting them for revenue.

28 Apr 2017

Facebook

Instagram hits the 700 million user mark

Facebook-owned photo and video sharing platform Instagram just reached the milestone of having 700 million monthly active users.

27 Apr 2017

India

CRPF jawan loses kin, lashes out at Rajnath Singh

Another Facebook video of a frustrated CRPF jawan Pankaj Mishra surfaced where he spoke against Rajnath Singh after having lost a relative in the Sukma Maoist attack.

26 Apr 2017

Sudan

World's last northern male rhino joins Tinder to find mates

The world's last male northern white rhino has now joined Tinder in an attempt to find breeding options for the survival of the species.

25 Apr 2017

Donald Trump

Obama's first post-presidency speech: 'Ready to train new leadership'

In his first post-presidency speech, former US President Barack Obama announced he wants to spend the next phase helping "prepare the next generation of leadership".

20 Apr 2017

India

Katy Perry faces Indians' wrath after Goddess Kali post

Angry Indians have unleashed their wrath on American singer Katy Perry after she posted a photo of Goddess Kali on Instagram with the caption, "current mood."

19 Apr 2017

India

Addiction to internet and social media on the rise

Technology has opened the doors to a whole new range of addictions, the most noteworthy being addiction to internet, or specifically, social media.

17 Apr 2017

Facebook

Facebook says it has ended a "coordinated operation" of spammers

Facebook has recently been in news for fake news and spamming which seems to have become rampant on its platform.

15 Apr 2017

India

Snapchat not for poor countries like India, Spain: Evan Spiegel

An ex Snapchat employee revealed that Snapchat's CEO Evan Spiegel had once commented that the app was for 'rich people' and that he wasn't interested in expanding to 'poor countries' like Spain and India.

Social media norms for paramilitary forces

Guidelines have been issued by the Home Ministry with respect to use of social media by security forces.

23 Aug 2016

Pakistan News

Pakistan's Red Light District wiped out due to Social Media

Heera Mandi, Pakistan's oldest red light district is, according to locals, facing threat from technology.

16 Aug 2016

Kerala

Kerala official: Stare at women 14 seconds and be jailed

Kerala's Excise Commissioner Rishi Raj Singh said that charges can be booked against a person who stares at women for 14 seconds or longer.