Nearly every other day you get to read something about Facebook & Twitter. Here goes one more article! For a change non-US users are contributing big time to these two internet giants. Recently Facebook opened their office in Hyderabad [photos], will Twitter follow? Not anytime soon. With increase in internet penetration across the world, I […]
Twitter penetration low, should we stop Tweeting?
We hear about Twitter and Facebook very often these days. One would think ‘every’ internet user is on social media, at least in the US. How untrue. According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (via Gigaom) just 8 percent of American Internet users are on Twitter. Other finds, […]
Column: Facebook, Orkut, Twitter – which social network should I use?
My third column in “Vijaya Next” (Kannada newspaper) was about what social networks. Everybody talks about Facebook & Twitter these days. But which one should we be using? Main points were, Facebook, Orkut, Twitter are the main options Facebook & Orkut are social/personal while Linkedin.com is for professionals Yesterday Orkut was the leader in India, […]
SMS, Twitter ruining English language in India
I get to work with many youngsters who write for us on Oneindia.in. Freshers send me emails with words like ‘dat (that)”, “2 (to)”, “pases (passes)”. Very painful for me. I am not concerned about the style of writing, that keeps changing with the time. But obvious grammatical and typos must be avoided. When it […]
Social Media dominates internet usage in India
The latest “Social Media Dominates Asia Pacific Internet Usage” shows the rise in social media (Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, blogging) usage in Asia Pacific countries. The survey found that three of the seven biggest global online brands are social media sites – Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube. Close to three-quarters of the world’s Internet population (74%) have […]