Social Media

Twitter Inc said it was testing a feature to show advertisements to people who read tweets without logging in, as it tries to make good on its long-time ambition to monetize non-active users. The company said the feature will help it cash in on an additional half a billion people each month, pushing its shares up as much as 7.8 ... Read More »

Facebook at Work, Facebook Inc’s professional version of its social network, is expected to launch in the coming months, after spending a year in tests, a company executive said. The new service, geared towards workplace collaboration, is nearly identical to its ubiquitous social network, with a scrolling news “feed”, “likes” and a chat service. “I would say 95 percent of ... Read More »

Bending to publishers’ demand, social media giant Facebook is changing the advertising policies for its Instant Articles platform. The company agreed to the changes after publishers complained that restrictions made it too difficult for them to generate revenue from content they posted to the social network’s new feature, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to Facebook’s Instant Articles product manager ... Read More »

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for emphasising the difference between Islam and terror, after the billionaire social network tycoon posted a message defending Muslims against discrimination. Erdogan, who once threatened to ban Facebook in his country, used his official page on the website to respond to Zuckerberg both in Turkish and in English. ... Read More »

Turkey’s communications regulator has imposed an unprecedented fine on Twitter for allowing the publication of content deemed to justify terror, the state-run Anatolia news agency said Friday. The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) has fined Twitter TRY 150,000 ($50,700 or roughly Rs. 33,97,000), the first time it has issued such a penalty to the company. Despite repeated warnings, Twitter ... Read More »

People who are distressed by a breakup are more likely to monitor their ex-partners online which could make it difficult for them to move on, a new study suggests. Social networking makes it easy to monitor the status and activities of a former romantic partner, an often unhealthy use of social media known as interpersonal electronic surveillance (IES) or, more ... Read More »

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip this weekend to Silicon Valley gives Facebook and Google the chance to press him on issues that have bedevilled them in that country, a market they see as vital to their aggressive global expansion. Among their concerns are unreliable electricity, slow Internet speeds and an education system that does not produce the engineers they need. ... Read More »

Chennai Police has taken to Facebook to share information on unclaimed two-wheelers retrieved from Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus (CBT) in the city. About 65 vehicles were found abandoned at the parking lot of CMBT, where about 4000 two-wheelers are parked daily, police said in a release in Chennai on Thursday. A special team of police personnel found that many of ... Read More »

With the Facebook user base touching 1.49 billion – or roughly 20 percent of the world’s population – can any social networking site claim to be bigger than this? Well, Twitter does. Although it has reported 316 million users in the second quarter – around five times less than Facebook’s figure – and its stocks not doing very well either, ... Read More »