By Dalton Bennett STORY SUMMARY Bahrain deported a U.S. citizen working as a teacher in the gulf kingdom over what it described Saturday as her “radical” writings on Twitter and websites as the government cracks down on dissent the country. In a statement Saturday, Bahrain’s Ministry of State for Communications […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 18 May 2013 Most Twitters users in Saudi Arabia are interested in local issues, particularly corruption cases, according to a study conducted last year. The study […]
By J. DAVID GOODMAN and WENDY RUDERMAN The New York Times Published: March 28, 2013 Looking to avoid troublesome social media postings by its officers, the New York Police Department has issued strict guidelines and ordered its members to comb through their personal profiles on Facebook, Twitter and other Web […]
By Victor Lipman Being (somewhat) active on Twitter, and fascinated by the vast amounts of wildly random but often extremely useful information endlessly tweeting across it, I’m always interested in […]
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments: The recent tragedy of Newtown, Connecticut is also defining the limits of freedom of speech for us. Source: CNN By Brandon Griggs, CNN updated 1:20 PM EST, Tue December 18, 2012 (CNN) — In the crowded world of social media, with its virtual […]
The current generation of school-age students spend more time online than any other. But what happens when they are asked to live and interact without mobile phones and with limited internet for a few months? At the Mountain School in rural Vermont, 45 students from across the US find out […]
By Nilay Patel, Special to CNN updated 11:24 AM EST, Wed December 5, 2012 (CNN) — As a tech reporter, it’s my job to catch trends as they’re developing — […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=bestoftv/2012/12/08/exp-pope-twitter-spokesman.cnn I am following Pope Benedict XVI in Twitter. He has some 24000 followers and is following some 200 accounts. I would […]
BREAKING LIVE UPDATES Mohammed Ghoul@MhamdG Number of martyrs increased to 52 martyrs, including 15 children #Gaza 18 Nov 12 Reply Harry Fear@harryfear 4 children killed in Jabalia in #Gaza this morning (2 of them brothers) #StopIsrael 18 Nov 12 Reply Lina Al-Sharif @livefromgaza Tamer (3,5) & Jumnah (18 months) killed […]
Dawn: Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications officials. The material […]
Source: Dawn Author: Laeeq Khan It is not the herd of sheep I am referring to as I write today. It is also not the extraordinary intelligent few amongst us that are the subject of my writing here. Instead the attention is drawn to the ordinary, simple and often gullible […]
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Monday he was sceptical about Twitter being a great conveyor of reliable knowledge. Mbeki said in response to a question after a speech to the University of Stellenbosch Business School he thought the social media tool was not appropriate for discussing knowledge […]