Social Media

Tay, Microsoft Corp’s so-called chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to engage with millennials on Twitter, lasted less than a day before it was hobbled by a barrage of racist and sexist comments by Twitter users that it parroted back to them. TayTweets (@TayandYou), which began tweeting on Wednesday, was designed to become “smarter” as more users interacted with it, according ... Read More »

An Indian newspaper journalist has been arrested after allegedly posting an “inflammatory” message on social media, police said Thursday. Prabhat Singh had criticised police in a WhatsApp post about the situation in Bastar region of eastern Chhattisgarh state, where rights groups say journalists are facing official harassment from security forces. Last year two journalists in the region were arrested under ... Read More »

Tinder made a name for itself by getting users to “swipe” right or left to find a date. Now it wants to use that idea in the US presidential campaign. The mobile dating app on Wednesday launched a feature called “Swipe the Vote” that allows users to respond to questions and find a political “match.” Questions include “Keep same-sex marriage ... Read More »

Stating that the state government is committed to openness and responsiveness in governance, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik issued such an instruction during a meeting yesterday. Highlighting importance of social media, Patnaik said as the government functions at multiple levels, it should be used to establish interaction with the people directly, they said. The Chief Minister also directed the departments to ... Read More »

Facebook Inc apologized to users on the other side of the world from Sunday’s suicide bombing in Pakistan who received computer-addressed notices asking if they were safe. Facebook users as far away as New York and Virginia showed notifications they received on social media site Twitter. “Unfortunately, many people not affected by the crisis received a notification asking if they ... Read More »

Twitter’s Periscope – a prominent live video streaming app for Android and iOS – is celebrating its first anniversary this week with a milestone of 200 million streams in a year. Out of the 200 million broadcasts hosted within the app, 100 million were created in the past three months alone, the company wrote in a blog post. In addition, ... Read More »

Earlier this month, WhatsApp rolled out an update that introduced text formatting options such as bold and italics for Android. The options at that time only showed up for Google Play beta testers. However, the same feature has now started rolling out to regular users as well, starting with iOS, and also bring the strikethrough formatting feature. WhatsApp for iOS ... Read More »

Snapchat is dressing up its messaging with an upgraded video chat and animations, part of the social network’s efforts to be the preferred service for young users. “We’re excited to introduce Chat 2.0,” the California startup announced on its blog Tuesday. “You can start by sending a few chats, and when your friend shows up, start talking or video chatting ... Read More »

One of the most significant changes brought about by internet connectivity has been in the way we manage our finances. Think about it for a moment – it used to be that if you wanted to deposit or withdraw your money, you’d have to go to an actual bank, you’d have to wait in line in between those herding barriers ... Read More »

If you’re considering using Pinterest for your marketing and branding efforts, one of the first things you need to know is who’s using the platform – i.e. is your target audience on Pinterest? Second to that, what you also need to get a handle on how people are using the platform – what are the common user trends and behaviors, ... Read More »