The microblogging platform Twitter has just published the report “2014. The year on Twitter ”, where we can check which topics have been the most popular among Internet users throughout 2014 and, therefore, those that generated the most retweets.
The prestigious journal Science has just published a ranking with the most followed scientists on the popular blue bird social network. However popularity and scientific eminence do not always have to go hand in hand. To differentiate it, they have created the so-called 'Kardashian index'.
What was your first tweet? Sure you have asked yourself many times but you have never had the time to see it or the necessary curiosity to start investigating. Well, Twitter has just launched a tool with which you can find out. And not just yours, but that of any user who uses the platform, be it Barak Obama, Cameron Díaz, Shakira, Cristiano Ronaldo or even one of its founders, Jack Dorsey. Eight springs chirping.
Apparently positive status updates, which convey joy and happiness, provoke exactly the same in others, which makes happiness viral thanks to social networks.
Human beings create impressions almost instantly from strangers; in a similar way it happens with the world of internet and, in this specific case, of the social network Facebook. Thanks to a recent study, we now know that the more popular you are on the social network, the more attractive they see you, producing a very clear cause-effect relationship. The results will be published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Being connected to our Twitter and Facebook profiles at all times makes us seem smarter, but it actually undermines our intellectual abilities, according to a new study published by the Royal Society.
Although it seems that it was yesterday when the most important social network in the world was born, it has been 10 years since Mark Zuckerberg launched his new Facebook at Harvard University on February 4, 2004. We review this decade of existence.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
