Tuesday, November 5

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How the World Reacts to the Flipkart-Walmart Acquisition Deal
9May By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments
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How the World Reacts to the Flipkart-Walmart Acquisition Deal

The Flipkart-Walmart acquisition deal is almost completed and only details are left to be finalized. Walmart CEO Doug Macmillan and other Walmart top executives are reportedly set to reach Indian soil shortly to officially announce the completion of the deal between the brick-and-mortar giant and the Indian e-commerce company. However, while the deal met with some optimistic reaction from users and sellers, it does not make unanimous satisfaction in the country and has hit a few hurdles already with some people looking at the deal with skepticism. Here, we have compiled the best tweets related to the acquisition deal :   1. Selling a business for $15 Bn is quite an achievement though...   Walmart to acquire Flipkart for $15b. Most Indian #startups end up bein...
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Know why Twitter Suspended Its Blue Check Mark Verifications
11Nov By RishabhNo Comments
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Know why Twitter Suspended Its Blue Check Mark Verifications

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ollowing the uproar, that began Tuesday, after the company verified the account of Jason Kessler, an organizer of the August white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that left one protester dead and many others injured. Heather Heyer, the protester who died protesting the white nationalist rally(he created) was called "fat, disgusting communist" and that her death was "payback time". Kessler received his blue check mark less than a month after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promised “more aggressive” enforcement against hate symbols and violent groups. Looks like I FINALLY got verified by Twitter. I must be the only working class white advocate with that distinction. pic.twitter.com/IMXqtmhgvn — Jason Kessler (@TheMadDimension) November 7, 2017 Promi...
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Are You Happy With Loooonger? Twitter Rolls Out 280-Char Tweets
8Nov By RishabhNo Comments
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Are You Happy With Loooonger? Twitter Rolls Out 280-Char Tweets

Testing over! 280 character tweets are actually good! Twitter officially announced that it is putting 140-character limit tweets a thing of past. #280character is the new cool. Twitter said on Tuesday, that after a global test about making the tweets two times longer, the result showed that it actually is good. The test was launched in September, with a goal to ensure "the speed and brevity" said Twitter in a blog post. "During the first few days of the test many people Tweeted the full 280 limit because it was new and novel, but soon after behavior normalized (more on this below). We saw when people needed to use more than 140 characters, they Tweeted more easily and more often. But importantly, people Tweeted below 140 most of the time and the brevity of Twitter remained," the blog q...
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Does Twitter Really Reflect The World’s Emotion?
8Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Does Twitter Really Reflect The World’s Emotion?

Twitter is an unreliable witness to the world's emotions, and assuming that the micro-blogging site accurately reflects real life may be risky, scientists say. With over 300 million monthly active users around the globe sharing their thoughts in 140 characters or less, studies based on Twitter data are "particularly alluring" to researchers and the media, said sociology expert Eric Jensen, from the University of Warwick in the UK. However, he cautions against this "big data gold rush," pointing out that there is no evidence that social media content shared on Twitter is a truthful reflection of how its users feel. Twitter users have developed their own unique cultural behaviour, conversations and identities, which shape the ways in which they present their views online. Social ...
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