Social media

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. 

Twitter's 140 character limit on tweets has long frustrated and challenged its most verbose users. Now the company could offer a solution, according to tech news website Re/code: the 10,000 character tweet, which could be available as soon as March.
 

Periscope and other social media platforms proved to be the major source of news in Turkey last year.

Those Christmas pics are hard to resist posting… especially bearing in mind that everybody seems to be doing this. There are reasons however as to why you should not be advertising your Christmas moments on Facebook and other social media.

1. Leaving home for Christmas

Planking and the Ice Bucket Challenge are so 2014… to ‘get with it’ try face dancing, a new and exciting opportunity to enjoy 15 minutes of fame on social media. All you need to do is paint your face with figures and then scrunch forward with face gesturs to make the figure move.

'Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action' by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, & Taha Yasseri (Princeton University Press, $30, 304 pages)

Social media make people do some very weird stuff to get likes and retweets. But the latest trend on Twitter is possibly the most bizarre we’ve ever seen.

It all started by Japanese comedian Masahiro Ehara, who somehow discovered that if he squishes his baby’s face, it will look like rice balls, and started a hash tag that translates to “#RiceBallBabies.”

Turkey's communications technologies authority, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), has fined micro blogging site Twitter 150,000 lira ($51,000.) for not removing content it says is "terrorist propaganda", a BTK official told Reuters on Dec. 11.

Justin Bieber spotted a mystery girl on Instagram on Monday and wanted eagerly to find out her identity.

The famous singer uploaded an image of the unknown beauty asking his fans to help him identify her.

He captioned the image: ‘OMG who is this!’. Immediately he received many messages from female fans claiming to be the young lady, as Daily Mail reports.

Are you one of those people who feels that they can post racist tweets in the comfort of their own home? Activists in Brazil are finding people who send abusive posts and are posting these messages on giant billboards near their home. The campaign is led by the civil rights group, Criola.