HIGHLIGHTS Reports had claimed PM Modi had over 60 percent fake followers Fake follower measurement tool is not our product: Twitter “The methodology used by ‘Twitter Audit’ is deeply flawed” After reports surfaced that some of the top Indian politicians including Prime Minister Narendra Modiand Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter accounts are infested with fake followers, the […]
SRINAGAR: A purported video of a death-defying stunt by a Kashmiri man, in which he lies on a railway track while a speeding train passes over him, has taken the social media by storm, prompting calls for strict action to prevent it from becoming a trend. The undated video, which emerged on social media late […]
Twitter has started testing the ‘save for later’ bookmarking feature that it had teased last month. Called ‘Bookmarks’, the feature is aimed at helping its 330 million monthly active users privately flag tweets for personal viewing at their convenience. To recall, Twitter had announced in October that it is developing a bookmarking feature to save tweets. Keith Coleman, […]
Micro-blogging site Twitter has admitted that specific locations included with some of its users’ tweets were revealed without their permission last week due to a “bug”. “We’ve discovered an issue for a small percentage of people who recently had location-sharing on, Tweeted from https://twitter.com, and tapped to add an emoji or GIF. In certain instances, a city-level location […]
Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Monday it would check next year if Twitter has complied with the law requiring all companies to store personal data of Russian citizens on Russian soil. “We can certainly say that we will check them until the end of 2018 to make sure they delivered on their promises,” Roskomnadzor head Alexander […]
The battle to be crowned the best cathedral in England and Wales on social media may seem an unlikely place for a gentle war of words, but social media managers at some of the most magnificent churches across the country have been waging a low-key fight over who is the best. The first shots were […]
HIGHLIGHTS Obama’s tweet garnered 2.8 million ‘likes’ This tweet is also the fourth most-retweeted post ever Obama (@BarackObama) has 93.3 million followers Former US President Barack Obama’s tweet in response to the deadly violence in the Charlottesville, Virginia rally garnered 2.8 million ‘likes,’ making it the most-approved post in the Twitter’s history. Obama’s tweet that he posted […]
Governments around the world are enlisting “cyber troops” who manipulate Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets to steer public opinion, spread misinformation and undermine critics, according to a new report from the University of Oxford. Adding to growing evidence of government-sponsored efforts to use online tools to influence politics, researchers found 29 countries using social media to shape opinion […]
HIGHLIGHTS Twitter users can now disable notifications from unfollowed accounts Users can also filter lower-quality content from their notifications It said in March to introduce new notification filtering options Twitter, in its latest step to curb abusive behaviour on its platform, rolled out new features on Monday to help users disable notifications from accounts that […]
Social media giants Facebook, Google’s YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft said on Monday they were forming a global working group to combine their efforts to remove terrorist content from their platforms. Responding to pressure from governments in Europe and the United States after a spate of militant attacks, the companies said they would share technical solutions […]