Microblogging

More than six million followers of Turkey's former president Abdullah Gül saw a series of nationalist messages on his Twitter account after it was hacked on April 4.

Anonymous hackers who seized the verified account, @cbabdullahgul, posted Pan-Turkist messages, while also criticizing political Islam.

Twitter Inc has opened a Hong Kong office, its first in the Greater China region, the company whose microblogging services are blocked on the mainland said on March 10.

Turkish President Erdo?an is finally on Twitter - more than five years after the opening of an official account in his name that amassed 5.7 million followers and was previously managed by ?young people who love him.? Erdo?an?s first ?real? tweet is an anti-smoking message. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an personally sent his first tweet on Feb. 9, giving an anti-smoking message.

Turkey?s requests to remove content from Twitter increased by 156 percent in the second half of 2014, according to the microblogging site?s biannual transparency report.

Overall, Twitter said the total number of removal requests had increased by 84 percent from the previous period, while the total number of affected accounts increased by 348 percent.

Twitter has not been blocked in Turkey, the country's telecommunications watchdog said Dec. 15.

The watchdog made the clarification after Twitter users complained they were unable to access the micro-blogging site for nearly two hours on the day.

While the Turkish government is preparing a bill that may introduce draconian measures on social media, Mehmet Şimşek is taking advantage of Twitter The government’s ongoing frequent measures against the Internet may have irked many social media users in Turkey, but one fan of microblogging site Twitter is Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek, who said he uses Twitter for pinpoint tax inspecti

The microblogging site Twitter, popular among both men and women in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, is nothing more than "a source of lies" and evil, the kingdom's top Muslim cleric said.

Turkey’s communications watchdog has said social media giant Twitter is open to the idea of setting up a representative office in Turkey, adding that talks will resume next week.

Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand "emotional contagion" in a study that prompted anger and forced the social network giant on the defensive.
     
For one week in 2012, Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place posts into users' news feeds to study how this affected their mood, all without their explicit consent or knowledge.