Social media

Facebook said Nov. 4 surging mobile advertising lifted its profits and revenues as the world's biggest social network grew to over 1.5 billion people.

Instagram model Essena O’Neill surprised her million followers by announcing she was giving up her social media profile because she let herself be defined with something that wasn’t real. She said her profile promoted a “dishonest and contrived” sense of beauty. Her new online appeal invited followers of her new, all-natural and makeup free image to help her pay for her new lifestyle.

Eighty percent of minorities in Turkey say they cannot express themselves openly on social media, while 35 percent said they are subject to hate speech on the same platform, according to a recent survey conducted by a minority organization funded by the European Union. 

Rich McCor, a 28-year-old creative agency worker from London, takes famous landmark monuments and gives them a uniquely different touch by adding whimsical paper cutouts. He then posts these on his Instagram account.

We’ve seen people getting naked, lying on the ground, and posing like a frozen chicken or riskholding their phone over perilous locations and take pictures just to upload these images on their social network profile.

But, this new trend is so weird that FrozenChook looks like a normal photoshoot.

Bulgaria has sent two of the total 112 user data requests received by social network LinkedIn in the first six months of this year, an official report reads.

Authorities in Sofia have been granted access to one of the two accounts they have asked about.

This makes Bulgaria one of the few countries which submitted requests over the respective period.

A deputy from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the former transportation minister said on Oct. 15 that Twitter could be blocked if required over the social media giant's hampering to share user information of accounts allegedly linked to the Oct. 10 Ankara bombings.

The new mobile application was developed by three friends who live and work in Thessaloniki, North Greece.

This application will change the way people communicate with each other and it was inspired by the need to come closer with unknown people who were around them, as the founders say.

Turkish security forces have found an identity card suspected to have belonged to one of the suicide bomb attackers in the Oct. 10 double suicide bombings in Ankara that killed at least 97 people.

Messaging company Viber announced on Monday it has appointed Daniela Ivanova as business development manager for Central and Eastern Europe.

The company said in a statement Ivanova's initial focus would be on Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, and Hungary - the biggest Viber markets in terms of statistics and development potential.