New York: A Turkish couple has shown that they need far less than 140 characters to express eternal love for each other, after exchanging wedding vows via Twitter on their iPads. Cengizhan Celik, the Groom, and his bride Candan Canik got married by tweeting the Turkish word "Evet," or "Yes," on their iPads. Their officiant Mustafa Kara, a local mayor, had prompted them before to say "I do" with a...
03:35 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Monza: Lewis Hamilton felt no need to seek out Jenson Button to apologise for his Belgian GP Twitter gaffe on Thursday and said he had learned from the experience, would not be repeating the error and had moved on. The 2008 Formula One world champion caused a furore in Spa last weekend when he tweeted confidential qualifying data to nearly a million followers - including members of rival teams grateful...
09:30 AM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: If anyone told me four years ago I'd be writing about Sherlyn Chopra, I'd have asked "Sherlyn Chopra, who?" The odd child of a booming Indian social media scene, Chopra arrived blazing across the horizon, riding a popularity wave in the wake of a tremendous publicity coup she pulled over contemporaries, many of whom with little or no access to the magical world of influential Hindi film stars....
10:57 AM, Sep 06, 2012
Beijing: Asian countries should have their own version of Facebook and Twitter to expand the region's influence, a Chinese official said on Tuesday. Asian media groups should use technical innovation to enrich their communication channels and have their own versions of Facebook and Twitter to expand the region's influence, Cui Yuying, deputy director of the State Council Information Office said. "Compared with Asia's increasingly vital role in the world economy,...
03:10 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Indore: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday alleged that the BJP is maintaining "fictitious" accounts on social media and manipulating online surveys to project that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has an edge over Rahul Gandhi as future prime minister. "You know that there are a lot of fictitious accounts on social networking sites and the BJP is managing voting on such sites to show results in its favour,"...
08:01 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: It seems there is a tug of war going between Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey. Both the girls, who have become celebrities in their own spheres, have probably vowed to flood the micro blogging site Twitter with their raunchy photos. In fact, raunchy appears to be a decent word for Sherlyn Chopras photos. With just one click, she has brought herself among the most daring Twitter celebs. Her...
04:00 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: Sherlyn Chopra seems determined to beat competition Poonam Pandey and Sunny Leone and she will stop at nothing. On late Saturday, Chopra, the first Indian to be featured on the cover of Playboy magazine, tweeted a series of pornographic images which she said she hoped would help her trend worldwide on Twitter. She gave fair warning to anyone likely to be offended by the images (of a woman...
10:26 AM, Sep 02, 2012
New York: Twitter Inc will begin allowing advertisers to directly target users based on the interests they reveal in their tweets, the social media company said Thursday. No longer content to be a "dumb" bulletin board, with 400 million micro-messages posted daily, Twitter has moved to a strategy of actively sifting through what each user is reading and tweeting in order to discern every individual's interests. Founded in 2006, Twitter...
02:03 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New York: An Indian American in New York is trying to bridge the gender gap in the tech world. Meet the Girls Who Code, an initiative thought up by Indian American lawyer and politician Reshma Saujani to encourage high school girls interested in tech and software programming. Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code, says, "Girls Who Code started in January 2011, it was a passion project of mine. Less than...
09:10 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Washington: You can use Twitter postings to spot whether someone is a psychopath, especially if he frequently uses words such as 'die', 'kill' and 'bury', a new research has claimed. Researchers from the Florida Atlantic University conducted a study with the London-based Online Privacy Foundation that showed how users' word choices can indicate personality traits, the Sun Sentinel reported. Somebody who swears too much online or uses words like "die,"...
04:42 PM, Aug 27, 2012
North America 83 per cent US President Barack Obama, who was the first world leader to get on Twitter in March 2007, is also the most popular politician on the micro-blogging site with more than 17 million followers. But he ranks fifth on the overall list, right after Britney Spears. South America 75 per cent Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is the second-most followed politician on Twitter with over three million...
12:36 PM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Friday sought to downplay its action in the cyberworld in the wake of problems in the northeast, saying it is not targeting individual accounts and websites but wants to block objectionable content. Minister of Communications and IT Kapil Sibal said the government is ready to hold discussions with stakeholders to find a "permanent solution" to the issue. "The difficulty is that Twitter is a site,...
03:56 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Pushed by India, Twitter has removed six micro-blogging accounts which resembled that of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) amidst government's assertion that action would be taken against those allowing objectionable content. In a communication to the PMO, Twitter has said it has "removed the reported profile(s) from circulation due to violation of our Terms of Service regarding impersonation". This communication has been sent in response to a complaint...
08:34 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday joined a protest against the Centre's move to block certain 'hate' pages and Twitter accounts by turning on his display picture to black, while terming the action as a "crackdown on freedom of speech". "As a common man, I join the protest against crackdown on freedom of speech! Changed my DP. 'Sabko Samnati De Bhagwan' (May God give wisdom to all)," he...
05:46 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday said only those social media accounts which have posted objectionable and inflammatory content are being blocked and there is no need for others to be concerned. "We are taking action only against those sites which can cause damage. We will not level charges unnecessarily on others be it SMS or Facebook or Twitter. Be assured of that. Only those who are...
03:31 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Milind Deora's Twitter account was not functioning on Friday. The users who clicked on his handle (@milinddeora) saw a message "account suspended: The profile you are trying to view has been suspended." But Deora told CNN-IBN his account has gone for verification, adding that normally verification doesn't lead to a temporary suspension. The word spread like wildfire on Twitter. Trinamool...
01:02 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: The government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security. The backlash came as New Delhi turned up the heat on Twitter, threatening "appropriate and suitable action" if it failed to remove the accounts as soon as possible. Several Indian newspapers said this could mean a...
09:34 AM, Aug 24, 2012
Washington: The US on Thursday advised India to ensure Internet freedom while seeking to preserve national security, as the Indian government asked social networking websites to check pages carrying inflammatory messages. "As the Indian government seeks to preserve security, we are urging them also to take into account the importance of freedom of expression in the online world," State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, told reporters at her daily news conference....
08:14 AM, Aug 24, 2012
Twitter agrees to block fake PMO accounts, but many other handles get blocked in the process. ...
11:31 PM, Aug 23, 2012
While Twitter agreed to block fake PMO accounts, the Government is under the fire for blocking Twitter accounts of some journalists also. Meanwhile, the Home Ministry and Telecom Ministry seemed confused on whether to block sites or not. ...
11:14 PM, Aug 23, 2012
