132-Year-Old Congress Embraces Digital India, Goes Big On Social Media
The party has chalked out an aggressive social media strategy to reinvent itself and connect with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India. At the Congress conclave in Delhi, several party leaders used the 'Twitter Mirror', a feature that allows people to take selfies by just tapping the screen. Read More
Checks and balances on social media
Social media, with all its content and adverts, is a driving force in almost every campaign (be it political or otherwise). When information is ready to be shared at the click of a button and then fed to a mass audience before their morning teas and late-night goodbyes, some regulations …
Social media to play vital role in upcoming West Bengal panchayat elections
Political parties in West Bengal will use the social media extensively for the first time to woo rural voters in the panchayat polls slated for later this year, given the rise in the number of smart phone users in the state, leaders of various parties said. With 70 per cent …
Rita Panahi: Social media contributing to a culture of outrage, intolerance and hatred
That was enough to set the activists into overdrive, firstly on social media, then in several articles and poorly written feminist feelpieces. Aboriginal activist Tarneen Onus-Williams was among the triggered brigade, tweeting: “Sunrise never fails to surprise me. The Stolen Generation was an act of … Read More
Spurt in crimes linked to social media in Rajasthan, DGP says ‘new challenge’
On December 6, when Shambhulal Regar hacked and burned to death a Muslim migrant labourer in Rajasthan and posted the video of the spine-chilling incident on social media, shock waves were sent across the country. While this incident drew nationwide attention due to the chilling nature of the … Read More
Fury as US social media stars given freebie trips to Scotland by Holyrood
The Scottish Government spent about £17,000 on the three trips which were promoted using #MyScotStory on their own website www.scotland.org and across social media, which also fails to identify the reviews as advertising. The trips were taken by Los Angeles-based food blogger Jo Stougaard, … Read More
The chronically ill are turning to social media for much-needed relief
That's when my social media journey began. I got online to seek people like me, people who could relate to what I was experiencing, people I didn't have to over-explain things to. And I found a wealth of communities, such as The Mighty, that bring people together, that provide space …
Ram Temple, social media and shifting alliances likely to make 2019 Lok Sabha polls expensive …
What will be the issue that the 2019 Lok Sabha polls will be fought on? The polls are about a year away and in a few months from now, the parties and alliances will have finished positioning themselves. They will go to advertising agencies and polling agencies and marketing specialists …
The Top 5 Social Media Stories Of This Week
Welcome to this week's top social media stories: GIPHY gets in trouble, Twitter wants to verify everyone, Facebook has a new video uploader and YouTube Stories can do magic. Sometimes things don't go as planned. Sometimes it's not your fault, it's the third-party content you use that bugs. GIPHY got … …
Social media to play vital role in coming Bengal rural polls
The TMC leadership has asked its district leaders to ensure maximum use of social media to reach out to young voters. Its students wing, the Trinamool Chatra Parishad, has engaged its cadres in various colleges of the districts to create awareness about the developmental work of the Mamata Banerjee … Read …