Hashtag

Instagram has become a huge hit with travelers around the world and New York has been named the most hashtagged city in a recent report. According to “Hashtag the World”, the Big Apple had 68 million hashtagged posts in 2016, a growth rate of 79 percent compared to the previous year.

The southern Aegean island region has entered into the digital era by adopting a complete tourism marketing strategy in its efforts to promote its destinations to visitors across the globe in new innovative ways.

The U.S. Embassy in Turkey has shared remarks by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry praising press freedoms on its official Twitter account, using the hashtag #ÖzgürBas?n - #FreePress in Turkish. 

Senior government officials have slammed Twitter, claiming it "censored" a hashtag created for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an by removing #WeLoveErdogan from its top trending tweets. 

London is the most popular hashtag on twitter with ‘London’ and ‘travels’ posted over 630,000 times in 2015, 200,000 times more that the next destinations, Paris, New York, Rome and Tokyo. The word ‘London’ in itself was tweeted over 80,000,000 times in 2015 along with the words ‘art’, ‘tarvels’ and ‘fashion’.

Yesterday there was a long queue of expensive cars trying to enter the Haliç Congress Center as Turkcell had its "Technology Summit" in the premises.  It is a very popular event in the technology world. People want to be present to network as much as they want to hear about what's going on in the tech world.

I have just written an article on why Twitter is loosing its popularity last week and this week as if Gods wanted to prove me wrong, the hashtag "coding should be mandatory at the primary schools" was trending topic for hours.

Charlotte Rampling clarified that her controversial claim over the lack of black Oscar nominees was misinterpreted. The best actress nominee for her role in “45 Years” said that she regretted that her comments were misinterpreted. She told CBS News that she had simply meant to say that an ideal world every performance will be given equal opportunities for consideration.

Social media make people do some very weird stuff to get likes and retweets. But the latest trend on Twitter is possibly the most bizarre we’ve ever seen.

It all started by Japanese comedian Masahiro Ehara, who somehow discovered that if he squishes his baby’s face, it will look like rice balls, and started a hash tag that translates to “#RiceBallBabies.”

Swedish Foreign correspondent Erik Wiman is frantically scouring the internet to find the refugee couple that lost a love letter on the shores of the island of Samos, Greece. Covering the stories of refugees for Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet last October, Wiman found the letter wrapped carefully in a waterproof bag.