Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’


Screenshot 3 years old Jordan based Arabic microblogging platform Watwet has closed down, in a massage posted on the site the site admins says that they are pulling the plug on WATWET and All your information on WATWET will be deleted permanently. However they are offering microblogging service to organizations. Why did WatWet fail and close? I wrote ...
Screenshot Last year a young American girl started the shameful page "draw Mohammad Day" competition on Facebook, that event brought backlash against Facebook in Pakistan as the site was ordered blocked to reopen later. And Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General has launched a criminal investigation against the CEO of facebook Mark Zuckerberg, which might lead...
Screenshot In response to act of closing the pages of the Palestinian uprising or the third Palestinian Intifada from Facebook under the request of the Israel media minister, activists organized a boycotting day yesterday via facebook events app. The call came from a page called the Arab National Army and other pages and has achieved 256,931 participants. ...
Screenshot Between 2009 and 2010 Twitter users from the Arab world were estimated to be around 15,000 to 40,000 but these figures were not official and not very accurate. But after the revolution on Tunisia and Egypt, as Twitter has been used as a tool to fuel the revolution,Twitter become a house hold name in the Arab world just like Facebook. An infographic...
Screenshot It seems the message sent by Israeli Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ( who belongs to the Jewish religion) to remove a page that called for a third palestinian intifada has resonated at the ears of Mark as today Facebook removed citing that it violated its terms as it called for violenc...
Screenshot We reported on March 21 that Facebook has deleted free palestine page, back then we connected Facebook asked them for explanation and urged them to bring the page back. Few days ago Facebook reported the page, it originally said that all the page admins' accounts were deactivated in different periods for different reasons. however we checked wit...
Screenshot Israeli Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ( who belongs to the Jewish religion) to remove a page that called for a third palestinian intifada. The page has so far 319,270 members. Yuli said that the page includes calls for violence, though by looking at the page we did not find any...
Screenshot Update: end of the post. Facebook has deleted Free Palestine page which was calling for Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The fan page managed in few days to collect more than 216,000 members. This is the second time that Facebook deletes this page according to the page admin. Look at Google cash here. ...
Screenshot “What do you wish for?” Hany Rashwan, a 20-year-old Egyptian studying Computer Science at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, recently launched Kolena.org to allow users in post-revolution Egypt to discuss their answers to this question. Rashwan envisions Kolena, a word that means “all of us” in Arabic, as “Egypt’s online inter...
Screenshot As the Libyan revolution rage, renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya was off the Internet. But it went back as Rensys post says " Two-thirds of Libyan routes came back to life at 6:01 UTC (8:01 local time), and the remainder were res...
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