Many social media-savvy people, from celebrities to average Joe’s, check the extent of their online influence through their Klout score. This multi-platform service, created by Joe Fernandez five years ago, uses data from various social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+, and Blogger among others, to come up with a single score on a scale of 1 to 100 based on the user... Klout Plans to Become Social Network
May 9th, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Many social media-savvy people, from celebrities to average Joe’s, check the extent of their online influence through their Klout score. This multi-platform service, created by Joe Fernandez five years ago, uses data from various social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+, and Blogger among others, to come up with a single score on a scale of 1 to 100 based on the user... Facebook Blocks Path’s Access to Find Friends
May 6th, 2013 at 9:28 pm
In reaction to Path’s latest privacy issue, Facebook has announced it blocked access for rival social networking app Path. Users who have installed Path will no longer be able to utilize its “Find Friends” feature, the culprit of the app’s alleged spamming to their Facebook friends through SMS and phone calls.
Path users, however, will still be able to log in through Facebook and be able to... Path Insists They are Inviting, Not Spamming
May 1st, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Path, the mobile social networking app that tries keeping up with the Facebooks and the Twitters, has recently announced it has reached 10 million registered users. They may want to check out how many of those are still using Path, especially with allegations of spamming have surfaced.
Unlike Facebook and Twitter, Path users are limited to accepting only up to 150 friends, but they can share their life’s sta... Chat Apps Overtake SMS for the First Time
April 30th, 2013 at 2:38 am
For the first time in tech history, instant messaging apps likes WhatsApp has overtaken SMS text messaging in terms of the volume of users, as reported by research firm Informa.
According to Informa, almost 19 billion messages were sent daily on chat apps last year, while about 17.6 billion text messages were exchanged during that same time period.
This shift may create a tremendous impact among mobile carriers, wh... Bill Clinton Joins Twitter
April 26th, 2013 at 9:39 pm
Former President Bill Clinton is enhancing his social media presence as he officially joins millions of other Twitter users last Wednesday. He is tweeting using the handle @BillClinton, which is already Twitter-verified with that “blue check” badge.
Clinton learned to tweet from comedian and television host Stephen Colbert, who got him into Twitter under the handle @PrezBillyJeff. While this account i... Twitter Testing Two-Stage Authentication Process
April 24th, 2013 at 7:47 am
When it comes to making their social networking service secure, Twitter seems to be lagging behind. After a series of hack attacks affecting major Twitter accounts like Burger King and the Associated Press, the microblogging service revealed that it is working on a two-factor authentication process. When it would be introduced to users, however, remains unknown.
Twitter revealed that it has been working on beefin... AP Twitter Hacked; Claims Attack on White House
April 24th, 2013 at 4:46 am
The Twitter account of Associated Press was hacked Tuesday and posted a “breaking news” about an attack on the White House and that President Barack Obama was “injured.” The news organization said that the attack on Twitter came after a “phishing attempt on AP’s corporate network.”
According to AP reporter Mike Baker, AP staff received “an impressively disguised phis... Servers of South Korea Broadcasters and Banks Crash by Possible Cyberattack
March 20th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
South Korean police are investigating whether North Korea has a hand in the shutdown of computer networks of the country’s three major broadcasters and three banks. Authorities have also said the government is bracing for more possible cyberattacks.
Terrestrial networks KBS and MBC, as well as cable channel YTN, have reported that their computers were affected. Their broadcast, however, remain normal.
Meanw... Facebook May Introduce Hashtags
March 15th, 2013 at 4:46 am
People find it odd seeing their friends post hashtags on Facebook. Although hashtags (keywords preceded with a pound sign, like #hashtag) do not work in Facebook, they actually work if their FB account is connected to Twitter. But a report from Wall Street Journal suggests that Facebook may make those pounded words functional within the social network.
Hashtags are currently incorporated on Twitter, Google+, and ... 
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