Twitter has said it will “pause” plans to disable inactive accounts following user backlash, a day after announcing plans for a huge cull of such accounts. the social media giant had announced plans to clear out inactive accounts, and free up dormant usernames and reducing the risk of old accounts being hacked. In a statement, …
Over the past two years conflict has escalated in North West and South West Cameroon. Cameroon is a bilingual country (English and French) and these two regions are the country’s English-speaking areas. The conflict started when lawyers and teachers held strikes over the increasing use of French in English courts and schools. Since then, what …
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it would explore regulating Google — an effort that would challenge protections around free speech online — in response to the president’s allegations that the tech giant manipulates its search results to prominently display negative stories about him and other Republicans. In the United States, regulating search results could …
Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer and co-founder, said in a tweet Thursday that he lost 200,000 followers, bringing his total down to 4 million, after Twitter made good on its pledge to remove suspicious accounts. Twitter has announced it will remove suspicious accounts from follower counts. It warned that the number of followers displayed on many profiles …
A group called OurMine appears to have taken control of the main HBO accounts, as well as those for the network’s shows including Game of Thrones. One post said “OurMine are here. we are just testing your security”. OurMine is notorious for hacking high-profile social media handles, and has in the past managed to compromise …
The Internet Society, along with 50 organizations and trade associations and nearly 90 individual experts have written a statement to express deep concerns over the proposal that U.S. Department of Homeland Security may require individuals to disclose their social media account passwords as a condition of entry into the United States. Last week, the new …
Social media use will soon be regulated in Zimbabwe, with the State already drawing up legal and policy instruments to govern information communication technologies. Local web developers are also in the process of stitching together products similar to social networking sites such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Youtube, Skype and Twitter so as to enable greater supervision. …
The Uganda’s communications regulator said it has blocked some social-media platforms to stop further campaigning during presidential elections in the East African nation. Bloomberg Reported. “It’s a breach of the law to campaign on election day,” Godfrey Mutabazi, executive director of the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), said in an interview with private broadcaster NTV in …
A judge in Sao Paulo has ordered WhatsApp to shut down for 48 hours, starting at 9pm Eastern tonight. WhatsApp is the single most used app in Brazil, with about 93 million users, or 93% of the country’s internet population. It’s a particularly useful service for Brazil’s youth and poor, many who cannot afford to …
It\’s obvious that social media and the mobile revolution are disrupting the shopping experience as we know it. At this point, most people rely on these digital tools to give them additional info about the products and services they\’re thinking of buying. Consumers are simply more knowledgeable about what they are thinking of buying because …