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Paytm’s Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma Trolled For Kerala Flood Tweet

22Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Paytm’s Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma Trolled For Kerala Flood Tweet

With all the people trying to give their helping hand towards Kerala Flood Relief, Paytm also introduced a feature on its platform through which the users could donate any amount of their choice for helping the people affected in Kerala. Paytm’s founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma also donated an amount of Rs 10,000 towards the Kerala Flood Relief and later did something that got him trolled on the largest social media platform Twitter. He after the donation process on Paytm tweeted that he had donated Rs 10,000 to the Kerala Chief Minister's Disaster Relief Fund through his transaction app. He put up a screenshot of the message stating, “Just did my Rs 10,000 donation towards #KeralaFlood relief. Go ahead and open your Paytm app to donate now!” He had no idea that his twee...

Netflix Running Video Promo Between Shows Annoys Users

21Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Netflix Running Video Promo Between Shows Annoys Users

Nowadays, Netflix has brought in a latest test feature that plays video promo in between episodes of a series you’re watching. It appears on the full screen which lasts for 10 to 20 seconds. Subscribers now face promotional videos that can not be skipped. These videos are almost like a commercial which appear between the videos reminding the users to not miss a particular show on Netflix. With this feature, the users seem to be unhappy and face inconvenience. Users who have faced this are expressing their annoyance through Reddit and Twitter. @netflix if you bring ads to your programming, I will have no reason to continue. I pay for your programming to avoid commercials. Just a customers input. — JennyB (@itsgonnabfine) August 17, 2018 The users have even...

Twitter’s Invention Hashtag is Now Eleven Years Old

21Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Twitter’s Invention Hashtag is Now Eleven Years Old

It’s quite impossible to remember the time when we didn’t use the tagging system on social media through hashtags, but for your surprise hashtag has been with us for only eleven years. It was for the first time used by former Google and Uber designer Chris Messina on 23 August 2007 on Twitter, and since then it has flooded the social media with hashtags. The first hashtag that was used was #barcamp. how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? — Chris Messina™ (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007 What is the importance of Hashtag? Hashtag has now become an important part of Twitter and Instagram, and other platforms as well. Hashtag is an efficient method to search for information and content related to a certain topic or issue...

Twitter Lite App to Expand in 21 More Countries

14Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Twitter Lite App to Expand in 21 More Countries

One of the leading social media platforms Twitter has announced that its lighter app known as Twitter Lite will be expanding to 21 more countries. After the expansion, Twitter Lite will be available to people across 45 countries in total. The data-saving app was launched last year with an aim to increase the user base and bring in users especially from emerging markets to Twitter. Like various other lite apps, Twitter Lite has also been designed to provide better and faster surfing even on slower network connectivity, like 2G and 3G. Also, the app has a smaller storage capacity, so it takes up less space on the phone. The app is less than 3MB in size, so it loads quickly on slower networks as well. And similar to Twitter, the app also includes features like Bookmarks, a darker “Ni...

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project

21Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project

Four of the biggest technology companies are associating together to make it easier for the users to download and transfer their data between services. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter formally announced The Data Transfer Project (DTP) today, an open-source initiative to create new tools that ‘enable people to freely move their information across the web without any kind of hassle. The Data Transfer Project is an open source initiative “dedicated to developing tools that will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.” With portability and interoperability as the goal, this reduces the problem of switching especially for people with limited data and then manually upload it to another product. W...

Twitter Suspends 70 Million Fake Accounts in Two Months

7Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

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Twitter Suspends 70 Million Fake Accounts in Two Months

Leading Microblogging website Twitter Inc. suspended over 70 million fake accounts in two months (May and June), as per the latest report revealed by the Twitter sources to The Washington Post. In the report of the Washington post, Twitter said that they are running a massive clean-up drive to clear out bots and trolls on the platform. The impact of this campaign is that the rate of suspension of accounts is doubled since October. Over 1 million accounts were suspended a day in recent months. Twitter is now on image makeover campaign, clearing all the fake and spam accounts on its website. The most popular blogging site between celebrities is looking to stop spam and abuse of fake accounts. However, these aggressive measures against unwanted accounts may impact the Twitter user...

StumbleUpon Officially Shuts Down After Sixteen Years Of Existence

2Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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StumbleUpon Officially Shuts Down After Sixteen Years Of Existence

StumbleUpon, a content delivery platform has officially been shut down after sixteen long years of operations. The social sharing platform had foregone both Twitter and Facebook. This news comes after a month of the announcement that StumbleUpon will possibly be closed forever. Well, the day has arrived and the company is officially no more in existence. StumbleUpon was launched in 2002 before the Facebook or Twitter came into existence. It was a random content developer where the user would click the stumble buttons and was directed to a random website, app, meme, forum, etc. that the platform considered was interesting for the users. Today is the last day to hit that Stumble button. Thank you to our dear Stumblers for joining us in internet history. We hope you find yo...

Reliance Jio OS Provider Raises Investment From Google

29Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Reliance Jio OS Provider Raises Investment From Google

Google is increasingly pushing itself as a startup investor as it has invested $22 million into KaiOS, the company that has built an eponymous operating system for feature phones that packs a range of native apps and other smartphone-like services. Under the new partnership, Google services like Assistant, Maps, YouTube, and Google Search will be available to KaiOS users, as informed by the Hong Kong company in a post. KaiOS CEO Sebastien Codeville in a statement, This funding will help us fast-track development and global deployment of KaiOS-enabled smart feature phones, allowing us to connect the vast population that still cannot access the internet, especially in emerging markets. It is interesting to note that KaiOS has played a significant role in pushing feature phone demand ...

14Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Twitter App Update: Now Get Highlights on Big Events, News stories

Social media giant Twitter is revamping its service to give more space to events such as World cup, earthquakes, royal weddings and elections, a move dedicated at making it a lot easier for users to find interesting tweets. Notably, Twitter has made efforts to stand out with advertisers and users alike by pushing live events and instant news as compared to social networks like Facebook that has made news a lower priority over friends and family posts. Now Get Push Notifications For Events on Twitter San Francisco based company has informed that it would now send notifications to users in its apps for events while promoting them at its dedicated Twitter's search page. The prompt will appear right at the top of Twitter's timeline, the very first thing that users will get to...

Facebook Releases Searchable Archive of U.S. Political Ads

25May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Facebook Releases Searchable Archive of U.S. Political Ads

Social Media Giant, Facebook has launched an archive of US political ad on its platform which showcases details like who paid for them and other details, after an outcry over Russians' alleged purchase of such ads during the 2016 elections. Facebook which today has 2.2 billion monthly active users had promised seven months ago to create a cache in context of U.S. congressional hearings that it wanted to increase transparency on its role in political advertising. The company has said that the archive tool will be rolled out to other countries in coming months. Meanwhile, on Thursday, Rob Leathern, Facebook’s director of ad product management said in his blog statement that all U.S. ads about elections or political issues on Facebook and Instagram must be labelled with the payer. He...

Twitter Changes Strategy to Fight “Internet Trolls”

16May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Twitter Changes Strategy to Fight “Internet Trolls”

Social Media Platform Twitter is gearing up its strategy for fighting abusive "internet trolls" by announcing that it will use behavioural signals to identify harassers on its platform and then limit their visibility of tweets. Twitter's present rules already prohibit abuse as the social media platform can block or suspend offenders once someone reports them. Even Users can mute people they find offensive. The San-Francisco based giant has been into the freewheeling discussion since the times it came to inception in 2006 trying to get rid of harassment and personal attacks that were driving people away from it. Twitter's Chief Executive Jack Dorsey informed that the company is now focusing on finding problematic accounts by examining behaviour such as how frequently people tweet a...

Twitter is working on End-to-End Encrypted Messanging:Report

8May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Twitter is working on End-to-End Encrypted Messanging:Report

Amidst data security concerns looming over Facebook and WhatsApp, Twitter is reportedly working on testing a new feature on its Android app that will aim at making messaging secure with end-to-end encryption. With this feature onboard, the messaging platform will roll out "Encrypted messaging" that will facilitate secret conversation allowing viewing both sides of the conversation for encryption keys to verify a secure connection. The encrypted Direct Message (DM) option was first tracked inside Twitter for APK that had codes for unreleased features that companies were testing. WhatsApp, on the other hand, is already using "end to end encryption" in all conversations which can also be opted on Messenger. Twitter is working on End-to-End Encrypted Secret DM! pic.twitter.com/2lL...