Tag: Twitter
Twitter to make it easier to share tweets via Direct Messages
Twitter on Tuesday added a button that lets people easily share ‘tweets’ in direct messages.
The move came as an acknowledgement of the appeal of...
Hijab-shaming French minister spawns Twitter hashtag calling for her resignation
France's women's rights minister Laurence Rossignol has sparked outrage with her recent statement that compared hijab-wearing Muslim women to "negroes who accepted slavery", reports...
Twitter adds image descriptions to help visually impaired
Courtesy Hindustan Times
Starting now, users can add a description of up to 420 characters to the images they upload on the site using its...
British man takes selfie with EgyptAir hijacker
A man who posted a smiling selfie with the EgyptAir hijacker and which went viral on the social media has been identified as a...
Twitter’s Periscope broadcasts 200 million streams in first year
Twitter’s Periscope -- a prominent live video streaming app for iOS and Android -- is celebrating its first anniversary this week with a milestone...
Microsoft apologises for AI chatbot Tay’s racist comments
Microsoft is "deeply sorry" for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot it launched this week, a company official wrote on...
Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from...
Courtesy The Guardian
Microsoft’s attempt at engaging millennial with artificial intelligence has backfired hours into its launch, with waggish Twitter users teaching its chatbot how to be...
Social media not a substitute for ‘real life’: Study
Courtesy SNAPPA Technology
A lack of social integration with people from different backgrounds is damaging social skills in younger people, research has suggested.
Insufficient social mixing...
Sonam slams body shamers, appreciated by Anushka
Actress Sonam Kapoor, who is an inspiring image of confidence in the best of outfits at all places, recently took to Twitter to slam...
SRK offers job to a fan via Twitter!
Ever since Fan’s trailer released, Shah Rukh Khan, who plays himself and the crazy fan in the film has been receiving positive response on social...
Priyanka Chopra hits 13 million followers on Twitter
Actress Priyanka Chopra has reached 13 million followers on Twitter and she celebrated the milestone by leaping on the beach in Boca Raton, Florida, where she...
Syed Noor mocked after claim that Sharmeen stole his idea of...
After Syed Noor’s alleged claim that Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy stole his idea and script for her recent Academy Award winning documentary film ‘A Girl in...
Saudi gets 10 years for Twitter ‘terrorism’ support
A Saudi who used Twitter to call for the release of prisoners convicted of “terrorism” and security offences has been jailed for 10 years,...
Australian Navy’s Islamic Twitter account shut down after complains from anti-Islam...
The official Twitter account of the Australian navy’s adviser on Muslim affairs has been shut down after an official complaint by an anti-Islam group...
CNN reporter suspended after tweet on Syrian refugees, House votes to...
"The Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish," tweeted CNN reporter Ellise Labbot on Thursday, after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block Syrian...
Shops or Tube? London bomb accused ‘asked Twitter for advice’
A man who allegedly asked Twitter users for their thoughts on whether he should bomb a shopping centre or the London Underground went on...
Facebook sued over posts inciting attacks on Jews
“This lawsuit is without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously,” Facebook said in a statement.
