This may or may not come as a surprise to you, but according to the numbers, WhatsApp messenger is actually bigger than Twitter now. It pushes a colossal 12 billion outbound and 8 billion inbound messages daily, and has 200 million monthly active users. The best thing, though? No ads. Read More >>
Did you hear? Nearly half of Justin Bieber's Twitter followers are fake. Fake! Belieber nation is a fraud, life has no meaning, the abyss of treachery and betrayal that is life grows deeper by the hour. Read More >>
Not to enrage the Bieber Nation or Beliebers or whatever Bieberian name tweens and post-tweens call themselves now, but it looks like a lot of the people who follow him on Twitter are fake. In fact, he has the highest number of fakeout Twitter followers out of the top 10 Twitter accounts. 16.7 million accounts are fake, and a whopping 2.6 million are inactive! Read More >>
Though reports had pointed towards Twitter releasing Twitter Music today, all we got was a landing page. Thankfully, designer Youssef Sarhan managed to pry some details from Twitter Music's source code. Because of his awesome sleuthwork, we now know a lot more than we did before. Like how Twitter Music will let users connect with Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube. Read More >>
Adam Orth, the Microsoft man who accidentally sort of confirmed that the next Xbox will have an "always-on" internet requirement when he went mad about it on the internet, has now left the gaming company. Read More >>
We know that Twitter bought music discovery app We Are Hunted and have heard that Twitter wanted to make its own standalone music app for some time now. It's coming out today. According to AllThingsD, Twitter will release Twitter Music—a new, standalone music application—on Friday. Read More >>
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"I assume the logic is this. if your company does one thing well, but your competitor does 2 things, a different thing well and your thing quite well, ..." More »
The furore over past comments made by high-profile youth police and crime commissioner Paris Brown has claimed her bouffant scalp, with the 17-year-old quitting her advisory job after her slightly dodgy youthful tweets triggered a modern-day outrage. Read More >>
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"The thing's (although limited) I've heard that she's apparently said weren't even bad. Just your typical teenage calling someone gay/a fag as an insul..." More »
Microsoft has issued an apology for an employee's outburst regarding the next Xbox's supposed always-on internet connectivity requirements, in which he suggested users just "deal with it" and expressed his smug happiness that he lived somewhere with a decent internet connection. Read More >>
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"You'll see that I mentioned those markets in a comment up above. It wouldn't work in those places, so it won't happen there.
Britain has an average..." More »
A team of hackers appears to have broken into North Korea's official, government-run Twitter and Flickr accounts. Evidence left on the sites suggests that the hacks on the social media accounts were carried out by Anonymous activists. Read More >>
Twitter just overhauled the look and feel of its Android app from what felt like a clunky afterthought, into something slick and lovely. You can tell immediately that the new design is cleaner and easier to read—but don't let that fool you. There's actually more information in the form of additional tweets. Read More >>
It's no secret that the likes of China and Iran censor the internet to within an inch of its life, but now there's a new Big Brother blocking content: Russia. Read More >>
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"Blocking the internet is very easy, the entire WWW needs only to be accessable through government owned nodes which access non native state websites a..." More »
Trailer-editing professionals TOKYO experimented with Vine recently by re-editing a handful of trailers into six-second, near seizure-inducing cinematic bursts inspired by The Wolverine Vine trailer. You've never seen Aliens like this. Read More >>
Social media does funny things to some people. While most would sensibly avoid calling their bungling boss an idiot to their face, many don't think twice before venting their anger and frustration on Twitter. A new tool called FireMe! offers a tongue-in-cheek way of warning someone if they have gone too far. Read More >>
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"You're doing Accountancy (a subject with an obvious practical application to a vocation - and which certainly doesn't fall under my 'shitty subject' l..." More »
There's a... you see a... some people... he... it's no good. Vine trailers are rubbish, especially when the six second time limit results in the new trailer for The Wolverine being little more than 15 virtually still images mashed together. At least you can tell Hugh Jackman's in it again. And he's still got those knife things taped to his hands. We think. [Vine via Techradar] Read More >>
Featured comment by Alex:
"I also enjoyed Wolverine. It's a fun action movie, if little else.
On the plus side, Jackman does acknowledge the weaknesses of the last movie, an..." More »
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