Three of the biggest social media applications in the world, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, which are all Facebook-owned properties, were down yesterday for nearly six hours, which left netizens across the globe confused and enraged throughout the night. People relied on applications such as Twitter and Telegram during this global […]
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Social media app Parler crawls back online on ‘independent technology’
Parler, a social media service popular with American right-wing users that virtually vanished after the US Capitol riot, re-launched yesterday and said its new platform was built on “sustainable, independent technology.” In a statement announcing the relaunch, Parler also said it had appointed Mark Meckler as its interim Chief Executive, […]
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Shared partisanship and social media ties
A study examines links between partisanship and ties on Twitter. Many people value partisanship as key to their identity. However, it is unclear whether individuals are more likely to form social connections based entirely on shared partisanship. Mohsen Mosleh, David Rand, and colleagues created eight Twitter bots designed to appear human. Four profiles […]
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Top 10 reasons people use social media
At a time when social media has never had so many active users — with some 4.2 billion of them worldwide — the Digital Report 2021 rounds up the reasons, people use social networking sites. The top reasons driving people to Facebook and the like are to stay up to […]
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More than half the world’s population uses social media
More than half of the world’s population is now active on social media or around 4.2 billion people. In the space of a year, this figure has grown by more than 13 percent, which corresponds to around 500 million new recruits, or 1.3 million additional users per day. Three figures […]
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Here’s why social media not actually linked to teen anxiety, depression
While most of us believe that technostress is caused by social media, a study found that time spent on social media does not directly cause anxiety and depression in teenagers. The amount of time teenagers spend on social networking sites has risen by 62.5 per cent since 2012 and continues to grow. […]
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Panjab University students’ body takes cleanliness campaign to social media
In a unique initiative to clean the campus of Panjab University (PU), Youth for Swaraj on Wednesday started a campaign named ‘Social Diwali’. Members of the organisation have urged the students and residents of the university campus to post pictures of dirty places on the campus, on various social media […]