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Russian Twitter accounts helped opposition in UK election: Report

30Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

News

Russian Twitter accounts helped opposition in UK election: Report

According to a new research, it has been revealed that Russian Twitter accounts pumped out messages in support of the opposition Labour party in an attempt to influence last year's British election. About 6,500 automated accounts had sent messages praising opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his policies in the closing stages of the election confirmed a research by Swansea University and The Sunday Times. Further, the study has found that 10 messages from the accounts about Labour backed the party. In contrast, nine out of 10 tweets about the Conservatives were hostile. The messages also targeted Prime Minister Theresa May for refusing to take part in televised election debates and criticised her for cutting police numbers in the wake of the Manchester bombing. Matt Hanc...

Twitter Founder Invests in Delhi based AI Startup

23Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

FUNDING

Twitter Founder Invests in Delhi based AI Startup

Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone has invested in his "personal capacity" in a Delhi based health startup that makes use of an artificial intelligence bot in its app, as he wants to contribute to a future where AI is seen as a "positive enhancement of humanity". "Visit", founded in 2016 is an on-demand healthcare service provider that facilitates consultation from a pool of medical specialist and general physicians to its users. The startup has recently introduced an AI-based "chatbot" which acts as a digital assistant to provide "smart help" to patients in accessing doctor's consultation. Indian investors Rohit Bansal and Kunal Bahl, co-founders of Snapdeal have also invested in their personal capacity in Visit. Vaibhav Singh, Co-founder, and Head at Visit said, This is country's ...

16Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

ANALYSIS

How Cricketers like Virender Sehwag Make Rs 30 Lakh Using Social Media

While he may have retired professionally for over a year now, nonetheless he continues to rule our hearts not only with his masterful strokes but also as a newly found social media entertainer! Yes, we are talking about our very own Viru paaji (nickname). Virender Sehwag the most destructive batsmen to have adorned Indian cricket industry is now making it big in the world of social media with his maiden skill to grab eyeballs through his unconventional, funny and witty Tweets like never before! "I have, in the last six months, made around Rs. 30 lakh through my Tweets", says, a much pleased Sehwag. While people can't stop gushing over his witty tweets, the brands to have not been able to resist the temptation of showcasing him for their brand promotion! Given the magnificent scope of cri...

Google is Shutting Down its URL Shortener Platform goo.gl

12Apr By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

News

Google is Shutting Down its URL Shortener Platform goo.gl

Google’s URL Shortener platform ‘goo.gl’ will no more be available starting 13 April 2018. Existing users will still be able to shorten their URL and view their analytics data through the same platform for one more year until March 30, 2019 when the platform will be officially discontinued. Google URL Shortener is a feature of Google Inc that allowed users and non-users to shorten links and was useful when advertising links on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The platform was launched in 2009 in a bid to facilitate the sharing of links while allowing registered users to measure their online data traffic. Additional URL shortening services then popped up and drastically changed the way internet users found content on the World Wide Web from desktop webpages to app...

10 Best Tweets About Facebook Data Leak Scandal

22Mar By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

News

10 Best Tweets About Facebook Data Leak Scandal

Facebook has been under hot water these past few days after an investigation has been initiated against the social media website amidst reports that the world's most popular social website's user data was used to influence the 2016 US Presidential Elections result. The news shocked the world and many individuals started a twitter campaign under the hashtag #DeleteFacebook on the micro-blogging platform voicing out their opinions about the scandal. Facebook did issue an apology but it failed to convince most users. Here at Pixr8 News, we have compiled the 10 best Tweets found on the popular website. 1 This is indeed very disturbing... This Mark Zuckerberg's attitude towards your privacy. Didn't expect this ?#DeleteFacebookpic.twitter.com/3CRCyiw3jH — Ketul Madhvan...

Twitter Joins Facebook and Google in Banning ICOs

21Mar By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

News

Twitter Joins Facebook and Google in Banning ICOs

Reports emerged that twitter will put a ban on ads promoting blockchain tokens and initial coin offerings (ICOs). The news is not yet confirmed but speculations reported that a source close to twitter shared the information anonymously. According to the report, the source did not give additional details as to when the ban will be implemented. However, this rumor refuels earlier speculations stating that the crypto-ad ban will begin in the coming two weeks. Twitter did not yet release a confirmation statement concerning the speculated blockchain ad ban despite pressure from different news publications. However, rumors were circulating since February 9th and reported back then that the company was still deciding which position it would take against cryptocurrency ads back then. Neverthele...

Twitter Removes 2 lac Followers From Amitabh Bachchan’s Account

23Feb By Sabhyata AgarwalNo Comments

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Twitter Removes 2 lac Followers From Amitabh Bachchan’s Account

On what is termed to as Twitter's bot crackdown by the outer world, many account holders including Amitabh Bachchan lost thousands of followers overnight. Twitter that is reviewing its services and making changes on the platform for a safer online social experience got into an argument with the users as many of them lost considerable number of followers in a night. One of them was Senior Bachchan who tweeted about the matter last evening. T 2623 - अरे Twitter भाई साहेब , या बहनजी ( पता नहीं ना इनका gender क्या है , इस लिए दोनों को संभोधित किया ), हम कुछ छाप रहे हैं , और आप उसको छपने ही नहीं दे रहे हैं ! अमाँ , 200,000 follower एक ही दिन में काट दिया आपने .. अब इसे तो मत काटो यार !! अब इतना भी ज़ुल्म न करो ? pic.twitter.com/D1F4xYiUyq — Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) Februa...

Know Why Twitter Shuts Down Its App For Mac

17Feb By Sabhyata AgarwalNo Comments

Tech

Know Why Twitter Shuts Down Its App For Mac

The most used micro-blogging application, Twitter has announced today, that it is ditching its application for Mac, thus moving the users to twitter.com, Tweetdeck or third party websites. The company wants to focus on its efforts to provide great experience that stays consistent across platforms. They tweeted : We're focusing our efforts on a great Twitter experience that's consistent across platforms. So, starting today the Twitter for Mac app will no longer be available for download, and in 30 days will no longer be supported. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 16, 2018 Since yesterday, the twitter app for Mac is no longer available for download and after 30 days, it will not support the iOS platform Mac-book. (Also read: Twitter Booked Profit For The Fir...

Twitter Booked Profit For The First Time Since It Went Public

9Feb By AdityaNo Comments

BUSINESS

Twitter Booked Profit For The First Time Since It Went Public

Twitter Inc for on Thursday, posted its first quarter results, which are rather surprising, as for the first time in its history as a public company it generated a hefty profit, thanks to its expansion outside the USA. As soon as the results were announced, the social networking platform experienced a massive boost of 12 percent in its shares, breaking the two-years record. In the fourth quarter of 2017, Twitter made a net profit of $91.1 million against the loss of $167.1 million for the same period, one year ago. Twitter has been running in consistent losses ever since it became a public company in 2013, is now expected to turn profitable all around the year 2018. Even though the number of people using the social media is going down, it is really promising that Twitter has found su...

Twitter To Notify Users Exposed To Russian Propaganda During U.S. Elections

20Jan By reutersNo Comments

USA

Twitter To Notify Users Exposed To Russian Propaganda During U.S. Elections

Twitter Inc, which is reviewing Russian interference during the 2016 U.S. elections, said on Friday it would notify some of its users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service. The company said it would email 677,775 people in the United States who followed, retweeted or liked content from accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency (IRA) during the election. The IRA is a Russian organization that according to lawmakers and researchers, employs hundreds of people to push pro-Kremlin content under phony social media accounts. Twitter added that because it has already suspended these accounts, the relevant content is no longer publicly available on its platform. Twitter executives on Wednesday told U.S. lawmakers that it ma...

Twitter Says World Leaders Like Trump Have Special Status

6Jan By reutersNo Comments

USA

Twitter Says World Leaders Like Trump Have Special Status

Twitter Inc on Friday reiterated its stance that accounts belonging to world leaders have special status on the social media network, pushing back against users who have called on the company to banish U.S. President Donald Trump. “Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate,” Twitter said in a post on a corporate blog. Twitter had already said in September that “newsworthiness” and whether a tweet is “of public interest” are among the factors it considers before removing an account or a tweet. The debate over Trump’s tweeting, though, raged anew after Trump said from his @realDonaldTrump account on Tuesday that he had a “much bigger” and “more powerful” nuclear button than No...

Elon Musk Promises On Twitter To Build Pick Up Trucks ‘Right After’ Model Y

27Dec By RishabhNo Comments

News

Elon Musk Promises On Twitter To Build Pick Up Trucks ‘Right After’ Model Y

It's just about a month that Tesla launched its electric semi-truck along with a surprise launch of Roadster in November, Musk took to Twitter today relying to a fan that he will soon launching a pick-up truck. I promise that we will make a pickup truck right after Model Y. Have had the core design/engineering elements in my mind for almost 5 years. Am dying to build it. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2017 When a fan requested that he awaits on Tesla's pick-up truck, Musk tweeted,“I promise that we will make a pickup truck right after Model Y. Have had the core design/engineering elements in my mind for almost 5 years. Am dying to build it." When asked about the size of the pick-up truck and whether it will be comparable to Ford F150, he said,"Similar total size. M...