Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’


Screenshot Bit.ly the popular link shortening service have posted a blog post about @clickabit saying that "Clickabit is a curated list of some of the surprising and delightful things that are trending in the bit.ly data stream." So is this Bit.ly's new Twitter account for trending links? If so it would be helpful to see the most popular/trending post...
Screenshot The launch of facebook locations has taken lots of buzz, the service allows users to check in using their touch phones into different location, know where their friends are and get information about places and discover new ones. Facebook places competes head to head with startups such as NY based Foursquare, texas based Gowalla and Face2face...
Screenshot There have been some confusion among some our followers on Twitter and facebook about our tweets since we recently started to share our readers' comments on ArabCrunch English and Arabic. Yes, we started to tweet our readers’ comments on ArabCrunch via our Twitter account, but that does not mean we necessarily agree with them, it is j...
Screenshot Whistleblower site wikileaks that got famous after releasing 90,000 documents about the war in afghanistan (Afghanistan War Log) last month, but before that,  the site has been under fire and threats from US federal government officials publicly and secretly, specially after releasing a video of US Army Helicopter killing journalists in Baghd...
Screenshot Early this month a disaster erupted in Pakistan but the scale of damage has gotten too worse. Pakistan floods might be the worse natural catastrophe in the 21st century as  the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon calls the devastation the worst he has ever seen. While The country's prime minister says as many as 20 million are homeless. T...
Screenshot WE are big fans of Twitter at ArabCrunch.NET that is one of the reasons that we enabled users to login to ArabCrunch.NET via their Twitter account. We've been using it since may day one of its launch. Twitter keep advancing and adding features, and just now it released new social context features as Sean Garrett describes them. The new feature...
Screenshot Seems Facebook is not stopping in being the number 1 destination of all things social. As blogs are considered part of the social media universe, looks like Facebook wants to have a strong stand in that arena too. leveraging the social graph it has. After launching facebook Live, today Facebook just announced upgrading Facebook notes with the fo...
Screenshot ComScore released today a report on Twitter stats for the month of June, the report reveals that 93 million Internet users visited Twitter.com -exluding third party app such as TweetDeck- an increase of 109% from last year. Indonesia the largest Muslim country in terms of population achieved the highest penetration rate, at 20.8 percent of ...
Screenshot If some of us think SMS is dead in the US, Twitter do not. The social media startup just announced launching Fast Follow SMS feature, which allows anyone in the US to receive Tweets on their mobile phones even if they have not signed up for Twitter. For example juts type follow ArabCrunch to 40404 in the US and now you start receiving Tweets from ...
Screenshot Whistleblower website WikiLeaks that is now well known for releasing the Afghanistan War Log of around 90,000 secret US military documents and the Baghdad shooting Video seems to be preparing for a new massive batch of leaks. A Tweet sent by the Twitter account of Wikileaks asked for 700,00 USD for its next harm-minimization review, and accu...
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