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Modi Emerges As Most Tweeted About World Leader After Trump

6Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Modi Emerges As Most Tweeted About World Leader After Trump

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as the "most tweeted about world leader" after US President Donald Trump in 2017, micro-blogging site Twitter said today. Two postings of former US president Barack Obama were among the top three most-liked tweets of 2017. Obama's tweet "No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion..." was the second most retweeted tweets of the year. "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." pic.twitter.com/InZ58zkoAm — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017 A tweet by Carter Wilkerson "Help me please... a man needs his nuggs" which was retweeted 3.6 million times was the most retweeted tweet of this year, acco...

Elon Musk To Compete To Fund High-Speed Loop In Chicago

30Nov By reutersNo Comments

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Elon Musk To Compete To Fund High-Speed Loop In Chicago

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Tuesday The Boring Company will compete to fund, build and operate a high-speed Loop connecting O‘Hare Airport to downtown Chicago. Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc and rocket company SpaceX, recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high-speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion. Earlier on Wednesday, Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked respondents to present proposals to develop, design, equip, finance, operate and maintain an O'Hare Express operating system through a public-private agreement with Chicago. “Although cost estimates for the project are not yet known, the RFQ (Request for Qualifications) stipulates that the O‘Hare Expres...

Google, Twitter-Block Porn or Get Blocked

17Nov By RishabhNo Comments

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Google, Twitter-Block Porn or Get Blocked

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]ndonesia has warned Google and Twitter, world's largest social-media providers to block pornographic content in its country of face the blockage. Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and a host of companies have been put on notice by Indonesian Communications Minister Rudiantara, who threatened “all platforms” that if they don’t adhere to government requests to block content, they will be blocked permanently! “The worst case is I will not allow them to be in Indonesia," Rudiantara, who uses one name, said in an interview on Thursday. "We are focusing on content. If you violate content then you are violating rules and laws in Indonesia.” Indonesia's 260 million population, with world's largest Muslim population has grown concerns about the spread of pornography,...

Twitter Revokes Check Marks From Several White Supremacists

16Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

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Twitter Revokes Check Marks From Several White Supremacists

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]witter has announced that it has updated its authentication process for verifying its accounts and awarding blue check mark, in a series of tweets. In these tweets Twitter acknowledged that its verification comes across as endorsement, and that the social network’s treatment of verification has led to this, and now they will be changing the way verification of accounts takes place. Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance. We recognize that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it. We have paused all general verifications while we work and will report back soon — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 9, 2017 On Wednesday, Twitter admitted in a...

Russian Twitter Accounts Promoted Brexit Ahead Of EU Referendum: Times Newspaper

15Nov By reutersNo Comments

USA

Russian Twitter Accounts Promoted Brexit Ahead Of EU Referendum: Times Newspaper

Russian Twitter accounts posted almost 45,000 messages about Brexit in the 48 hours around last year’s referendum in an attempt to sow discord during the vote on whether to leave the European Union, the Times newspaper reported on Wednesday. The Times cited research from an upcoming paper by data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley, which it said showed accounts based in Russia had tweeted about Brexit in the days leading up to the June 23 vote. The Times said most of the tweets seen by the newspaper encouraged people to vote for Brexit, although a number advocated remaining in the EU. It quoted Tho Pham, one of the paper’s authors, as saying “the main conclusion is that bots were used on purpose and had influence”. The research tracked 156,...

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...

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...

Indonesia Drops Threat to Block WhatsApp Messenger: Official

7Nov By reutersNo Comments

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Indonesia Drops Threat to Block WhatsApp Messenger: Official

Indonesia has dropped a threat to block Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp Messenger because the service had responded to concerns over obscene content, an official at the communications ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry vowed on Monday to block WhatsApp Messenger within 48 hours if the service did not ensure that obscene Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images were removed. “We see now that they have done what we asked. Therefore, we won’t block them because they have responded to us,” said Semuel Pangerapan, a director general at Indonesia’s communication and informatics ministry. Indonesia said on Tuesday it will summon executives of messaging services and search engines, including Google, to demand they remove obscene content, but dropped a threat to block WhatsApp Messenger after “GIF” ...

Whatsapp Down: Users Report Outrages Worldwide

3Nov By RishabhNo Comments

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Whatsapp Down: Users Report Outrages Worldwide

Whatsapp is down for a millions of users reported worldwide, with reports of increase in the number of people coming in from India, US, UK, Sri Lanka, Italy, Spain and Saudi Arabia. According to the resources, the problem came first in notice around 3:10 EDT in the morning and then grew over to hundreds of people reporting the issue. Predictably, people have taken to Twitter in panic to express their dismay over what will undoubtedly be a temporary outage. Switching between WiFi and 4G trying to get WhatsApp messages to send #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/rGCaS0NdML — Kam (@Kamil_LFC94) November 3, 2017 Similar event occurred in early May, when it took hours rectify the problem and put it online back again. Also Read These Russian Ads Deceived Users on Facebook and Ins...

Twitter Says Trump’s Account Deactivated By Employee Leaving Company

3Nov By reutersNo Comments

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Twitter Says Trump’s Account Deactivated By Employee Leaving Company

U.S. President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was deactivated by a Twitter Inc employee who was leaving the company on Thursday and was down for 11 minutes before it was restored, the social media company said. “We have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer-support employee who did this on the employee’s last day. We are conducting a full internal review,” Twitter said in a tweet. “We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again,” the company said in an earlier tweet. A Twitter representative declined to comment further. The White House did not respond immediately to a request for comment. Trump has made extensive use of messages on Twitter to attack his opponents and promote his policies both during the 2016...

These Russian Ads Deceived Users on Facebook and Instagram- Leaked

2Nov By RishabhNo Comments

USA

These Russian Ads Deceived Users on Facebook and Instagram- Leaked

The Russian ads that influenced the Americans came under many disguised faces. They ran all across Facebook and Instagram attempting to influence the public's opinion through social media in a manner we hardly can imagine! The content that went along with it could hardly be traced now, but we managed to get some of the screenies of those social media ads. It's clear from the testimony of internet companies that these ads aimed at "election interference". Go through the examples in the below images of how they planned to discredit a candidate (Clinton being the reliable target), and foment division on existing issues. The Russian ads targeted the far left and the far right, seeking to manipulate black activists, Muslims, Christians, LGBTQ people, gun owners and even fans of Ivanka ...

U.S. Senators Hammer Facebook For Power Over Elections

1Nov By reutersNo Comments

USA

U.S. Senators Hammer Facebook For Power Over Elections

U.S. senators on Tuesday pressed Facebook Inc’s chief lawyer on why the company did not catch 2016 election ads bought using Russian rubles, why its investigation of them took so long and how much it knows about its 5 million advertisers. Democrats and Republicans at the Senate crime subcommittee hearing fired questions for much of two hours at Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, who said that in retrospect the company should have done more. “In hindsight, we should have had a broader lens. There are signals we missed,” Stretch said under questioning from Democratic Senator Al Franken about how the company missed political ads bought with Russian money. Stretch called the Russia-based ads “reprehensible” for their political divisiveness. The hearing marked the first time tech exec...