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This Is How China Censors Its Version Of Twitter
The rest of the world may live in the Twitter stream, checking updates and sending tweets more often than they check email, but in China, it’s Weibo that rules. Weibo is the Chinese term for microblog, and it was originally launched in 2009. In 2011, the domain name was... Read more
Twitter Gets Rid of its TweetDeck
If you are a heavy Twitter user, you may be disappointed by Twitter’s announcement that they will be shutting down multiple TweetDeck apps.  If you aren’t familiar with the app, TweetDeck is a Twitter tool that tracks real-time conversations, across multiple accounts and topics. It’s official that TweetDeck AIR,... Read more
Fake Facebook Competitions Driving Huge ‘Like’ Volumes
Facebook is a stomping ground for hoaxes and the social networks newest attack involves its popular “Like” button feature. According to the hoax, users receive a free electronics item in exchange for simply hitting the “Like” button. If users step back and think about it for a moment, earning... Read more
Are Teens Losing Interest in Facebook?
Currently at 900 million users, Facebook is unquestionably the most visited online social networking site. But for how long? Facebook has no real worries of losing its loyal adult users. In fact according to research firm Nielsen, users in the 50-64 age group made up nearly 1/4th of the... Read more
Facebook Not for Users Over 100 Years Old
A new glitch has been uncovered in the social networking website Facebook which is causing problems in particular for one user. Marguerite Joseph is a resident of Grosse Pointe, Michigan and has been using Facebook for the past three years. Joseph was born in 1908 which makes her 104... Read more
No Native Instagram App for BlackBerry Users
Not too long ago, Blackberry was put on the soon-to-be-deadpooled list of many tech experts, but this company has the tenacity of a an old boxer who wants to keep the championship belt in his corner. End January, Blackberry went the celebrity endorser route by naming Alicia Keys as... Read more
Yahoo Tries to Go Social: Revamps Website with Facebook
It has been a tumultuous couple of years for Yahoo. Though its status as one of the world’s leading search engines and internet companies has not changed, the revenues and profits have been on the decline. The situation has been made worse with the succession of CEOs that have... Read more
Twitter Responds to Burger King Hacking
Something fishy has been over at Twitter. The accounts of some leading businesses have been hacked over the past few week, none more sensationally than Burger King. Not only was someone able to breach Burger King’s account, but make it appear like a McDonald’s page. In fact, the description... Read more
Can Pinterest Become Number 2?
If asked what the most used social networks in the United states are, most of you would immediately name Facebook and Twitter, and you would be right. However, some of you may not realize how close the running is for the second spot. Pew’s Survey On Thursday, The Pew... Read more
Twitter Will Be Judging Your Tweets
Twitter announced this week that it would soon be enhancing its API with two additions to its metadata. Upgraded Language Detection One of these changes is a new language property which will determine each Tweet’s language by way of Twitter’s machine language detection algorithms. While it will most likely... Read more
Facebook Gets Sued over Like Button
Facebook’s like button has been a hit with users from the start. A small clickable icon with a thumb’s up symbol is clicked daily by millions of people. Not to mention the billions of dollars it has generated for the social site. Infringement charges against Facebook On February 5th... Read more
Social Media Gets Into Fashion
New York Fashion Week is always a place for new ideas and changing trends.  One of the biggest trends to make a mark this year at New York Fashion Week is technology, specifically social media.  Designers and audience members alike are flocking to the tools of social media to... Read more
Twitter’s Vine App Facing Stiff Competition
Just days after Twitter’s video sharing app Vine was slapped with a 17+ rating following pornographic related controversy, Vimeo stiffened competition in the app video sharing space by announcing its purchase of Echograph. Like Vine, Echograph is an iOS app focused on creating short, animated, looping clips. Even before last week... Read more
Facebook Hit in ‘Sophisticated’ Attack
Facebook has revealed it was targeted by hackers last month, but says user data was not compromised. The social media network says its security systems were targeted in a ‘sophisticated’ attack when a handful of employees visited a mobile developer website.   The compromised website hosted an exploit which... Read more
Twitter Enables Search for Tweets Older Than a Week Now
As we mentioned earlier this week, Twitter has finally made it possible for users to search for tweets which were posted to the website over a week ago. In a new update to its website and mobile apps, Twitter announced that people can now look for older tweets. Previously,... Read more
Facebook Launching Location Tracking App
During the last three months of 2012, Facebook’s mobile daily users, for the first time ever, surpassed the site’s web daily users. To accommodate Facebook’s 680 million monthly active mobile app users, 2013 will be spent developing ways to entice even more mobile users, keep users active and interested,... Read more
Father Offers Daughter 200 Dollars to Stay off Facebook till June
Human interest stories are not hard to find. Every day you hear something out of the blue but this new story caught everyone by surprise. A corporate executive has found a way to keep his teenage daughter off the social networking website Facebook. He is offering his daughter a... Read more
Major Brands Shrink and Loop Their Ad Space on Vine
Twitter’s new mobile video app, Vine has been getting a lot of attention since its release, a little over a week ago. Vine’s recent buzz First, the video sharing app gained acknowledgement for the launch of their unique, 6 second looping videos. Just days after release, Vine was already... Read more