Ben Blum a 13 year old filmmaker has made a documentary about how the NSA is spying on the world. Over the past few years we have heard a lot of news on the NSA but the way it works can be confusing and complicated to understand.Ben's documentary titled "Data Obsession - a Look into…
Many users have been reporting issues with the Twitter app Fenix not working properly and now the creator of the app Matteo Villa has confirmed in a Google Plus post that Twitter has blocked the application, preventing it from posting tweets
"It seem that for unknown reasons Twitter somehow blocked the application, so we are no…
Recently a new social network that goes by the name of Ello has emerged. The social network was previously private but has recently opened its doors to other members allowing any user that has an invitation code to join this new simple, beautiful and ad-free social network.In fact, Ello invites are so hot right now…
Everyday when you're online you will encounter social media, whether its from visiting your Facebook page, or going onto Twitter to read what your favorite celebrities are up too, and without social media you are basically a nobody since nobody online knows about you. This is where businesses are becoming increasingly aware of this and…
Scientist have developed a new system that can identify if a 140 character long tweet send by a user is telling the truth or not. The creators called Pheme believe that this system could be very useful to the police to prevent the spread of false reports like it happened during the London Riots of 2011 where…
The Chinese government is employing over 2 million workers to monitor "the internet" according to state media. The work these employees get assigned is, by using keywords to search through the tens of millions of messages that are being sent everyday across popular social media websites like Sina Weibo, Instant messaging app WeChat, Tencent QQ etc.The…
Instagram, the popular photo sharing social network owned by Facebook now has more mobile users in the United States then Twitter according to a new report from EMarketer.Twitter first launched in 2006 and has more then 240 million users of which 30.8 of them are on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, on the…
It has been rumored for some time that Facebook would soon allow users to make status updates while they are not connected to the internet, but it looks like it has now started to roll out this feature in The Netherlands Dutch news website Nu reports.Only 2.5% of the users currently in Holland that have…
We know Twitter is working on a new design that will incorporate a Google plus like profile, including a bigger header image. But for now, Twitter profiles still have a small space you can fill in with an image that shows information of you, interacts in a cool way with your profile picture or just…
Twitter has just launched a mysterious twitter account called @EventParrot (spotted by the guys from TechCrunch) that will send you direct messages that help you keep up with what's happening in the world without the account actually following you back. As of now Twitter allows you to send personal messages to users if you follow them and…