Social media

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.

Twitter is an amazing service with a simple idea, as all of you know. It is an amazing way to spread news. It is very easy to use, very fast and very open. It is exactly what a free-minded, truth-seeking global individual would want from any news source. However, this is exactly why Twitter is losing its edge and relativity globally.

Twitter said on Feb. 5 it suspended more than 125,000 accounts, most of them linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, as part of increased efforts to eradicate "terrorist content" on the popular messaging platform.

The Avaaz petition calling for signatures so that Greek islanders can receive a Nobel Prize for their handling of the Greek crisis has gathered more than 630,000 signatures from around the world since it was started in November and is trending on Twitter in Greece with the hashtag #nobel_se_ellines

Facing tough challenges in the forthcoming early elections, including poor media exposure and lack of funds, the opposition parties are turning to the Internet in a quest for voters.

Bojan Klacar, director of the Center for Free Elections and Democracy, CESID, told BIRN that no party can avoid social media now, although television remains the most influential media.

Having condemned ?endless times, and rightly so? past secular governments' social engineering attempts in the Old Turkey, calling them illiberal, Turkey's Islamists are perfecting conservative social engineering in their virtual New Turkey. In fact, the Islamists were not against ANY social engineering.

Facebook quarterly profit more than doubled as its ranks swelled during the past year to a mammoth user base of nearly 1.6 billion, it said Jan. 27.

Four senior Twitter executives are leaving the media company, CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted late Jan. 24 night, the biggest leadership changes since Dorsey returned as chief executive as he struggles to revive the company's growth.

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.

Pakistan said on Jan. 18 that it had removed a three-year ban on YouTube after the Google-owned video-sharing website launched a local version that allows the government to remove material it considers offensive.