All the stories tagged with social media
Instagram Reverts Terms Of Service Following Scuffle
12/20/2012, After the bruises and burns it has suffered from the numerous criticisms and backlashes for allegedly claiming perpetual rights to sell the photographs of its users, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom announced today that the photo-sharing service will revert back to [...]
Twitter Says You Can Now Download Your Archived Tweets
12/19/2012, Earlier this week, we mentioned that Twitter is beginning to allow its users to download their old tweets. The report was substantiated when a few users reported that a “Your Twitter Archive” option was found at the on-site settings menu. [...]
Twitter Announces 200 Million Monthly Active Users
12/18/2012, After wrapping up the year with its 2012 Year On Twitter, and launching a foray of updates that included photo filters, new profile updates, and the capability to download tweets, the insanely popular micro-blogging service is announcing today that it [...]
London Fire Brigade To Launch World’s First 999 Emergency Twitter Feed
12/18/2012, The London Fire Brigade is planning to take things a bit further by launching the world’s first 999 emergency Twitter feed to monitor fires in the city. The news comes after LFB’s recent publication of its Integrated Risk Management Plan [...]
Cops Use Social Media To Bring Down 250-Member Gang
12/13/2012, Oh, the untapped powers of social media. Cops in Bushwick, Brooklyn were able to bust a 250-member gang by using social media as a tool to create fake profiles while adding gang members to their “friends” list. Young gang members, [...]
Facebook allows users to delete search history
09/21/2012, Search histories are perhaps the most incriminating tracks we leave on the internet. Google’s allowed its users to delete search data for a while, and although few choose to, it makes a lot of people feel better. Facebook’s search history [...]
Obama Speech Generates 52,757 Tweets Per Minute
09/07/2012, President Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention has set a new record on the social media. During his speech, Twitter witnessed a massive number of tweets, officially declaring that it was an all-new record of the most tweets [...]
Pentagon lays down new social media rules
08/22/2012, The Pentagon has just updated their latest set of rules for service members when it comes to using popular social media outlets, and of course, you would expect the big guns such as Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest to rank amongst [...]
Microsoft giving away Windows Phone devices to people with enough Klout
10/21/2011, It seems like Microsoft is doing everything in their power to try and increase the adoption of Windows Phone devices, even if that means giving them away free. In this case, Microsoft has partnered up with Klout, which is a [...]
[Study] Social media believed to be used by most of today’s burglars
09/29/2011, While the internet is great for helping you keep in touch with the people you care about, it’s also a good way for strangers to find out everything about you. One thing people seem to ignore nowadays is the privacy [...]
Facebook reunites bride with her lost wedding dress
09/07/2011, The dream wedding is often something that most little girls have in their mind when growing up, as they wait for Prince Charming to drive up in a Lamborghini (sorry, no more of that shining armor crap in this day [...]
StumbleUpon Explore Box
08/17/2011, StumbleUpon (SU), a site that millions use to discover web content has just launched Explore Box, a new feature that lets users discover web sites in a more focused, and arguably, efficient, way. Previously, StumbleUpon did let users discover sites [...]
NYPD forms new social media unit
08/12/2011, Love all things computers, and you live, breathe and eat social networking? Then the NYPD might be your future workplace if you’re still studying, as the New York Police Department (NYPD) gets on with the times by forking a spanking [...]
