by admin | May 25, 2021 | Markets, Muslim World, Social Media
Manama : Bahrain announced tough measures against social media accounts that “spread malicious rumors” under the guise of the Royal Court.
Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa noted on Sunday steps to deal with unprecedented chaos by disruptive social media accounts, Xinhua reported.
“Such accounts spread malicious rumours that went against social harmony and civil peace,” the minister said, adding that security authorities would tackle any offence against national and traditional values.
“Some disruptive social media accounts claimed they were run by the Royal Court while it had been proved they were operated through malicious websites and had no links with the Royal Court or any other official organization in Bahrain,” he added.
He said the Royal Court is an official authority that supervises all constitutional organisations in the kingdom.
The minister said the operators of some of those accounts were identified and others would continue to be pursued. “We won’t be far from tracking them down and taking legal action against them even if we need to draft new legislation to tackle the latest developments in such crimes.”
The interior minister said there would be a follow-up and steps would be taken to make them accountable in accordance with the law to stop their violations.
Following the announcement, Chief Prosecutor of the city of Muharraq Hussain Khamis said the public prosecution had launched an investigation into misusing social media networks by a suspect who posted defamatory tweets.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News
Javed Akhtar
Mumbai : Irked by a social media user who asked him if Shia and Sunni were different religions, veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar on Thursday said all kinds of religious people were “equally unreasonable”.
He made the comment as part of a chain of tweets after the social media user asked Akhtar: “Is Shia and Sunni different religions Javed Akhtar? #JustAsking.”
The celebrated writer, who is quite vocal about his views on socio-political issues, said: “Your question about Shia and Sunni reminds me of a very famous dialogue from a film ‘Gone With The Wind’. And it was, ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn’.”
Journalist Arnab Goswami joined the conversation by questioning Akhtar: “But where is the answer!”
Akhtar wrote: “It is for them to decide whether they are from the same religion or not. Doesn’t interest me. So what if they are and so what if they are not. I believe all kind of religious people are equally unreasonable. Is that clear enough Arnabji or the nation still wants to know some thing.”
On that, Goswami hit out at Akhtar saying: “Easiest way to escape (run away) from question that don’t suit you. Otherwise you are badly known for unwanted advice, decision and conclusions. And yes, the nation still wants to know many things but that you would not like to face for sure.”
Akhtar also got engaged in a Twitter argument with another user who raised a question on the feasibility of having “Aamir Khan, a Muslim, play (a part) in most ancient and sacred of Hindu epics, the Mahabharata”.
Akhtar abused the user, asking him “which foreign agency is paying you to spread this kind of perverse and poisonous thoughts in our country”.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Government Jobs, Markets, Networking, Online Marketing, Overseas, Private Jobs, Social Media, Technology
San Francisco : To help local businesses hire the right people, Facebook has expanded the ability to apply to jobs directly on its platform to more than 40 countries.
Rolled out in the US and Canada in 2017, Facebook’s job application feature is different from Microsoft-owned LinkedIn as it is focused to draw in candidates for small- and medium-size businesses.
Facebook, however, did not elaborate on which 40 countries were part of this expansion.
“Local businesses strengthen our communities and create more than 60 per cent of new jobs. We want to help people find those jobs and help local businesses hire the right people,” Alex Himel, Vice President of Local at Facebook, said in a blog post on Thursday.
In an online poll of 5,000 adults conducted by tech and media company Morning Consult, one in four people in the US said they searched for, or found a job using Facebook.
“Since introducing job postings on Facebook in the US and Canada, we’ve built new features for businesses like the ability to create job posts on mobile, manage applications, and schedule interviews,” Himel said.
Job seekers can also set up job alerts for the type of roles they’re interested in.
You can find jobs in the Jobs dashboard at facebook.com/jobs and the “Jobs” option in the “Explore” section on mobile, by clicking the Jobs icon in Marketplace, or visiting the Jobs tab of a business’ Page.
“When you’re ready to apply for a role, you can create an application, which will populate with job history and other information in your Facebook profile,” the blog post read.
You can edit your application before you submit it.
Once you finish applying, a Messenger conversation will open with the business’ Page so you can have direct contact with the employer and confirm when your information has been received.
According to Facebook, businesses will only be able to see information you provide them directly, and what’s available publicly on your Facebook profile.
“To stay on top of the type of job you’re interested in, you can also subscribe to alerts,” Himel said.
Businesses can also attract the right applicants and hire quickly.
Page admins can create job posts directly from their Page with details like job title, job type (full-time, intern, part-time), salary and more.
“Job posts will appear in multiple places on Facebook, including on a business’ Page, in the Jobs dashboard, in Marketplace, and in News Feed,” the company said.
Since 2011, Facebook has invested more than $1 billion to help local businesses grow and help people find jobs.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Markets, Networking, Online Marketing, SMEs, Social Media, Technology
San Francisco : In a bid to make customer experiences better on Twitter, the micro-blogging site has relaxed the rules for customer service Direct Messages (DMs) and introduced a new feature that makes sure businesses can always respond to the customers DMs.
“We have introduced features that allow people to more easily start a private conversation with businesses such as the Direct Message deep link and Direct Message Card. We have also made it easier for people to quickly engage with welcome messages and quick replies,” the company wrote in a blog post on Friday.
“We are excited to introduce adaptive rate limits, a new feature for developers sending Direct Messages through our API,” the company added.
Adaptive rate limits help to ensure that businesses can always respond to customers who privately message them, even when inbound volumes are high.
The change means that for every message you send to a company over DM, they can send you five responses within 24 hours.
If you send them another message, then that figure resets, meaning that you can theoretically chat forever, should you want to, according to the Engadget.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Hindi, Markets, Media, News, Social Media
New Delhi : There is a steep divide in the news preferences of Hindi and English readers online and findings of a survey, announced on Wednesday, show that while nationalistic, religious and political themes attract Hindi readers, the news around entertainment and celebrities find more readers in English.
At the same time, the survey also reveals that sharing on nationalistic and religious themes dominated in 2016, with 22 per cent of the total shares for the “Most Shared 5000 stories,” but dropped significantly to 14 per cent in 2017 for the same number of most shared stories.
The survey — carried out by Storynomics, a consulting firm that specializes in business of storytelling in traditional and digital media — comes after a similar survey in 2017 for the news trends in 2016.
The firm analysed sharing of news articles in social media for 143 leading Indian media brands in 10 languages, including Hindi, English and Bengali, among others.
The survey has been carried out on news stories that appeared between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. The calculations for number of shares has also been carried out for the same period.
Even as English continues to be the most popular language for news sharing on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, its contribution to total shares decreased to 44 per cent in 2017 from 48.32 per cent in 2016. However, Hindi maintained its contribution at 34 per cent of the total shares in 2017.
However, the survey also points out that Hindi news stories had a significantly higher average engagement of 1,601 shares per story, whereas English reports were at 483 average shares in 2017.
Bengali continues to be the third most popular language for news sharing in social media, with 6.97 per cent of the total shares. Bengali also had the highest average share per story of 3,307 in 2017 among all languages considered for the study.
Sharing in other Indian languages (excluding English, Hindi and Bengali), according to the survey, doubled and increased their contribution in total shares to 14.76 per cent in 2017.
Further, the findings of the survey suggest that social media engagement for news stories by leading Indian media outlets jumped 33.3 per cent in 2017, with 376.63 crore shares on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, compared to 282.31 crore shares in 2016.
—IANS
