Social media

It is cold, wet, and damp, but hot Greek singer Katerina Stikoudi raised the temperatures a little. The sexy performer shared a photo with her instagram followers with the hashtag #blonde-power in a revealing leopard-pattern bikini, just to remind us what kind of photos she has in store for her fans, even though summer is still far away.

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 European Commission wants to tighten the rules for the processing of personal data from electronic services such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Gmail, iMessage and Viber.

The current directive on the right to privacy concerns only traditional long-distance communications operators but the EC insists that it should include the providers of electronic services as well.

With 3.3 million followers on Instagram and nearly 7.5 million on twitter, American actress Eva Longoria is no stranger to social media. The sexy 41-year-old, who has also produced and is involved in philanthropy, posted some photos on her snapchat and instagram accounts and received over 22,000 likes matter of a couple of hours!

A 60-year-old Turkish woman, whose travel photos went viral on the internet after she lost her camera in a car in which she was hitchhiking, has been found in the Aegean province of İzmir.  

Thousands of social media users sparked a viral campaign to find her and nicknamed her "Ayşe Teyze" (Aunt Ayşe).

Investigators say an encounter on the social media platform Snapchat led to a sexual relationship between a Texas math teacher and a 16-year-old student, reports CBS affiliate KHOU.

OASA (Athens Urban Transit Organization) is inaugurating its presence in social media with a photography and video competition through its Facebook and Instagram pages entitled “Mesa” or “Way to Go!”

The photo-sharing site released its year-end data Dec. 1 showing the 24-year-old pop star has the most followers of any celebrity (103 million) and was responsible for nearly all of the most-liked celebrity posts in 2016. 

About a quarter of the global population is now on Facebook, yet only a small fraction seem aware of the world-shattering implications of this reality. Facebook and other social media such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat have irreversibly transformed the landscape of human interaction to an extent that was unthinkable only a few years ago.

The mayor of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality has claimed that a tweet which praised his work and was shared on his official Twitter account was sent without his knowledge and was tweeted by a social media management consulting firm.