by admin | May 25, 2021 | Markets, Social Media, Technology
San Francisco : Many users across the globe faced outage on Facebook and Instagram, with a flash message from the company saying the website undergoing “required maintenance”.
Late on Saturday, users started to complain that they were unable to access their social media accounts when they attempted to login.
According to Down Detector, a website that tracks Internet outages, most users reported a “total blackout” while some could access the site but were unable to load pages or upload pictures.
Some could access the site but were unable to load certain pages or upload pictures.
The technical glitch affected both the desktop and mobile users across the world, including the Europe, the US, Brazil, Japan and Australia.
At its peak, the website was receiving 1,869 reports of outages. Users on Facebook-owned Instagram also reported the technical issues which was later resolved.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Large Enterprise, Markets, Networking, Online Marketing, Social Media, Technology
New York : Photo-sharing app Snapchat is expected to overtake Facebook for the first time in the US, as the user growth of Facebook will slow among teens and adults, market research firm eMarketer has said.
Snapchat is forecast to overtake both Instagram and Facebook in terms of total users aged 12 to 17 and 18 to 24 for the first time in 2017, that will shoot up Snapchat’s share of US social network users to 40.8 per cent.
The decline in user growth will also impact Facebook’s ad revenues as the company tries to make the platform an attractive destination for the advertisers by boasting about its young users.
Facebook reported nearly $9.2 billion in ad revenue in the second quarter of 2017, a rise of 47 per cent from the same period last year.
“We see teens and tweens migrating to Snapchat and Instagram. Both platforms have found success with this demographic since they are more aligned with how they communicate-that is, using visual content.
“Outside of those who have already left, teens and tweens remaining on Facebook seem to be less engaged-logging in less frequently and spending less time on the platform,” said Oscar Orozco, a senior forecasting analyst at eMarketer.
According to the market research firm, Facebook’s loss of monthly users between the ages of 12 and 17 will accelerate to 3.4 per cent this year compared to a 1.2 per cent drop in 2016.
eMarketer also predicted that Facebook-owned Instagram is expected to post growth of 23.8 per cent this year. Its monthly users under 12 years age are also expected to increase 19 per cent, and those in the age group of 12-to-17 to 8.8 per cent.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Agartala : The Tripura police on Friday launched a probe over a fatwa issued against Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Facebook, the authorities said.
“After noticing the fatwa post on Thursday, an inquiry has been initiated following the registering of a criminal case at the West Agartala police station,” West Tripura district police chief Abhijit Saptarshi told IANS.
He said: “Police registered the criminal case suo-motu under the relevant provisions of Indian Penal Code and Information Technology act. We would seek the help of cyber-crime experts to track the person.”
Saptarshi said the post has now been deleted.
“We would definitely be able to track down the account holder, but it would take some time. Earlier, a fake Facebook page was found on the name of the Chief Minister and the police traced the source to Indore,” he said.
The fatwa said a cash reward of Rs 5.5 lakh would be given to anyone for being able to “chop off the head of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar”.
Using the name Ria Roy along with a girl’s photograph, the account holder introduced itself as an activist of the World Anti-Communist Council. However, there were no personal details in the profile section.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Markets, Technology
San Francisco:(IANS) Social networking giant Facebook has unveiled a new tool that will help people raise funds for personal needs like tuition, medical treatment, pet care, personal emergency and even for burial expenses.
Personal fundraisers allow people to raise money for themselves, a friend or someone or something not on Facebook, like a pet.
“Personal fundraisers will launch in the US for people aged 18 years or older, and in beta over the next few weeks, as we hope to continue to learn and improve the product to make it even more useful,” Naomi Gleit, Vice President, Social Good at Facebook wrote in a post late on Thursday.
“Our charitable giving tools have made it easy for people to raise millions of dollars for non profits to support those in need directly on Facebook. Today we are expanding those tools to include personal fundraisers, as well as more options for people to continue to fundraise for nonprofits,” she added.
Personal fundraisers will have a 6.9 per cent + $.30 fee that will go to payment processing fees, fundraiser vetting, security and fraud protection.
People can raise money to cover costs related to education such as tuition, books or classroom supplies; medical such as medical procedures, treatments or injuries and pet medical such as veterinary procedures, treatments or injuries.
They can also solicit funds for crisis relief such as public crises or natural disasters, personal emergency such as a house fire, theft or car accident and funeral and loss such as burial expenses or living costs after losing a loved one.
Friends can donate in a few taps with secure payments, without leaving Facebook.
“Since you can see real profiles on Facebook, donors will see how they are connected to the person who created the fundraiser, the person benefiting and others who are supporting the fundraiser,” the post further read.
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Markets, Social Media, Technology
New York, (IANS) In a bid to expand its user base, social media giant Facebook has announced it will begin displaying ads to web users who are not members of its social network.
“Facebook will use cookies, ‘like’ buttons and other plug-ins embedded on third-party sites to track members and non-members alike,” a report in The Wall Street Journal said.
The company said it will be able to better target non-Facebook users and serve relevant ads to them.
“Publishers and app developers have some users who are not Facebook users. We think we can do a better job powering those ads,” Andrew Bosworth, vice president of Facebook’s ads and business platform, was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, Facebook’s practices have come under criticism from regulators in Europe over privacy concerns. Facebook began displaying a banner notification at the top of its News Feed for users in Europe from Friday, alerting them to its use of cookies as mandated under an EU directive.
Facebook believes that targeted advertising can more accurately target non-members using the vast amounts of data it already has on the nearly 1.7 billion people who use the site, the report said.
The company said that “it can use that data to make inferences about the behaviour of non-members, an approach known as “lookalike” targeting”.
“…because we have a core audience of over a billion people [on Facebook] who we do understand, we have a greater opportunity than other companies using the same type of mechanism,” Bosworth added.
