With hashtag activism, the micro-blogging site Twitter has triggered the biggest ever push for racial justice the US has seen in decades, researchers report. With hashtags like #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice, the social media activism fuelled the rise of “Black Lives Matter (BLM) – a nationwide movement dedicated to ending police brutality. The study by ... Read More »
The International Cricket Council (ICC) and social networking site Twitter are all set to introduce a range of new interactive experiences for the ICC World Twenty20 in India. Twitter Trump Cards (#WorldT20Heroes), #AskCaptain and some new Twitter emojis are part of the new initiatives, ICC has innovated with Twitter for cricket fans to get a Trump Card of their favourite ... Read More »
Twitter Inc has been offering additional restricted stock and cash bonus to employees to prevent staff departure, the Wall Street Journal reported. Twitter granted varying amounts of restricted stock depending on when the employees started working, intending to make up for the value they lost since joining the company, WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Since the fall, ... Read More »
Popular social media platform Twitter will collaborate with Election Commission of India in its awareness campaign on striving for 100 percent voting for the May 16 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Rajesh Lakhoni held discussions with Raheel Khursheed, Head, News, Politics and Government at Twitter India in Chennai. Later, speaking to reporters, Khurhseed said ... Read More »
There’s good news for the Twitter faithful Friday: the network’s signature 140-character limit isn’t going anywhere. Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey told the Today Show’s Matt Lauer that the limit is too much a part of Twitter’s identity to let go. “It’s staying, it’s a good constraint for us,” he said. “It allows for of-the-moment brevity.” Twitter’s chief executive was ... Read More »
With 320 million users including celebrities such as Harry Styles, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber on its platform, the micro-blogging site Twitter on Monday wrote a 140-character thank you note to its users as it celebrated its 10th anniversary. Twitter users are creating 500 million tweets per day and 200 billion tweets every year. “On March 21, ten years ago, ... Read More »
Apple CEO Tim Cook is far from a regular user of Twitter, having racked up just three tweets this month and a total of 226 since joining the micro-blogging service back in July 2013. But despite the burden of the upcoming iPhone event and the ongoing Apple vs FBI battle over encryption, Cook took to the site to congratulate the ... Read More »
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 »
Twitter users on Friday were witness to an ugly sight as CEOs of rival Flipkart and Snapdeal traded barbs on the social network. It all started with a tweet by Flipkart’s founder and Executive Chairman, Sachin Bansal. Reacting to news that Chinese giant Alibaba would step up its India operations, Bansaltweeted that Alibaba starting operations in India directly shows how ... Read More »
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