The politicians brought down by Twitter: Emily Thornberry’s Rochester nightmare, Diane Abbott’s divide and rule and Miliband’s Bob Holness disaster November 21, 2014 After a storm on Twitter which was then picked up by the mainstream press, Islington MP Emily Thornberry resigned from the shadow cabinet last night. While pounding the pavements of Rochester and Strood, the Labour MP tweeted a picture of a white van parked in the driveway of a house displaying several England flags with the [...]
Emily Thornberry resigns from shadow cabinet following Twitter controversy November 20, 2014 Emily Thornberry has resigned from the shadow cabinet following an angry public reaction to a "snobbish" photo she posted to Twitter. While on the campaign trail, the Labour MP tweeted a picture of a house with several England flags and a white van parked in the driveway with the caption "Image from #Rochester". [...]
Ukip speaks out on Islington MP Emily Thornberry’s Rochester Twitter gaffe November 20, 2014 Labour MP for Islington Emily Thornberry has taken a beating on Twitter over a tweet she sent during the Rochester and Strood by-election campaign. Political commentators, Eric Pickles and even a fellow Labour MP have weighed in to criticise Thornberry's ill-judged tweet, which showed a house with several St George's cross flags and a white [...]
Snapchat moves into mobile banking with the launch of Snapcash: Will it rival Facebook, Twitter? November 18, 2014 Snapchat is taking the plunge into the mobile payments market, with the announcement of a new app that lets users transfer cash at the hit of a button. The photo messaging service, which lets users send photos vanish after a maximum of 10 seconds, unveiled Snapcash in a blog post yesterday: The product you’re [...]
Twitter share price tanks after receiving junk bond rating from Standard & Poor’s November 13, 2014 Twitter’s share price dropped almost by almost six per cent today, after its bonds received a junk rating from Standard & Poor’s. The social media site’s bonds were slapped with a below investment level ‘BB-’ rating. Twitter issued $1.8bn worth of convertible notes in September. However, S&P said in a statement that Twitter [...]
Twitter chatter about BBC One’s Sherlock nets London £11m in free advertising November 13, 2014 Twitter chatter about the BBC One drama Sherlock has generated millions in free advertising spend for London's tourism industry, according to new research by Film London. The study crunched nearly 35 million likes, mentions and tweets from a range of websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Pinterest to establish the "screen tourism" effect. Adrian Wootton, [...]
Sage vs Netsuite: CEOs Stephen Kelly and Zach Nelson take Tube-inspired ad war to Twitter November 6, 2014 Netsuite, the US software firm, is on the war path. The cloud computing giant wants a slice of UK rival Sage’s market share and isn’t afraid of getting its hands a bit dirty. On Wednesday, it launched a newspaper ad campaign, using a Tube-like map to attack Sage: “All Sage lines terminate here,” said the [...]
GCHQ director: WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook “facilitate” Isis terrorism November 4, 2014 GCHQ’s newly appointed director has suggested that Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other large US tech brands “facilitate” terrorism. In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times, Robert Hannigan writes that “the largest US tech companies…are the routes for the facilitation of crime and terrorism.” Hannigan’s article is published on the same day [...]
Facebook earnings boom with huge growth in mobile ad revenue after Twitter disappoints October 28, 2014 Facebook has posted impressive third quarter results with growth in both revenue and users. The multi-billion dollar company grew its daily active users by 19 per cent from a year ago, with the number of monthly active users growing by 14 per cent. Wall Street had expected the social media firm to post revenue for [...]
Twitter share price plummets as it fails to live up to World Cup hype October 27, 2014 Twitter shares dropped in value by as much as eight per cent in after hours trading, highlighting concerns about the micro-blogging site's user growth. In its earnings for the third quarter, it reported 284m monthly active users – a 23 per cent increase from the equivalent period in 2013 but just a five per [...]