Social media

Slovenian journalist and publicist Sebastjan Erlah has caused "a scandal on Twitter" when he suggested migrants should be shot at, Tanjug is reporting.

Facebook is billed as the place to share and connect, and would-be refugees are using it as a tool to flee war in the Middle East. They utilize social media to help them find people smugglers through a whole host of information services available online to allow users to research prices, fees, bribing costs as well as dangers of various routes.

Nary a day goes by without an article or news report appearing on how social media is slowly but surely transforming western society.
The latest “selfie” craze involves “divorce selfies”.
According to the Daily Mail, a Canadian couple commemorated the end of their marriage in a very unique way – by snapping a selfie.

Dimitra Matsouka proved to be quite the surprise package on social media this summer. To the satisfaction of her many fans, the sexy actress was very prolific in posting pictures on her personal Instagram account.

Facebook boasted of a new benchmark Aug. 27 in its seemingly inexorable march to Internet ubiquity: a billion people used the social network in a single day.

Mobile chat messaging and VoIP service company Viber has announced it is opening a representation office for Central and Eastern Europe in Sofia as part of plans to affirm and increase its footprint in the region, dnevnik.bg reported on Monday.

When Wael and his relatives from Syria climbed into an inflatable boat in the dead of night to cross the sea from Turkey to Greece, they abandoned all their belongings -- except their smartphones.
 

Twitter failed to add users at a quick enough pace for investors in the second quarter even as revenue grew sharply, feeding concerns about whether it can ever become a mass-market service like Facebook or Google.

Turkey has blocked a number of Kurdish and left-wing news websites while many users also experienced difficulty accessing Twitter and Facebook for an unspecified reason on July 25 as Turkish fighter jets continued to bomb the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.

Every bit can help, and so it is with mygreeksummer.com, a new initiative by the tourism component of the relevant ministry, which hosts images posted on social media – particularly Twitter — under the hashtag #greeksummer