Manmohan, Obama need Twitter lessons from other world leaders, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Latest News, politics updates, political news, latest and breaking news, breaking news.

Manmohan, Obama need Twitter lessons from other world leaders.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Twitter handle @PMOIndia ranks 28 in a listing of the top 50 world leaders by the Geneva-based @Twiplomacy and Burson-Marsteller that analysed 505 Twitter accounts of heads of states and foreign ministers in 153 countries.

At the top slot, US President @BarackObama’s 33,510,157 followers are 53 times Singh’s 631,956 followers (all data as on July 1, 2013). The second most-followed account does not belong to a political, but a religious leader — Pope Francis with 7.2 million followers on his nine different @Pontifex accounts.

 

 

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Facebook for every phone to debut In India Soon, Facebook, india, Social Media, Social Networking, Latest Apps, apps , Latest News.

Facebook for every phone to debut In India Soon.

The social networking giant, Facebook is now turning its focus to feature phones after Smartphones and tablets.

Though the feature phones are largely extinct in U.S., Europe, and Canada, they still have a strong user base in the developing countries like India and Brazil.

“Facebook for Every Phone” is going to be announced very soon, and Facebook has been working on it from two years.

 

 

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Why e-marketers prefer LinkedIn over Facebook in India, Facebook, social media, online marketing, linkedin, social networking, latest updates.

Why e-marketers prefer LinkedIn over Facebook in India

NEW DELHI: LinkedIn, a social networking site for professionals, has emerged a hotspot for marketers over the past couple of months as social media experts say Indian users have increased their visit to the site.

Social media experts say that unlike other popular social media such as Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn provides a specific platform for brands targeting professionals who on average have more purchasing power and disposable income than users of other sites.

"LinkedIn is the perfect fit for us because there are 20 million professionals available on this platform," says Vinay Bhopatkar, brand head of fashion brand Van Heusen. Madura Fashion and Lifestyle's premium brand last week launched a campaign to find the most fashionable professionals among LinkedIn's member base. "This audience is serious, and we want this audience to take fashion with seriousness," Bhopatkar says. Brands such as Woodland, DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund and IT major Wipro have also used LinkedIn's platforms for carrying out promotional campaigns.

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Facebook adds hashtags, mends missing link to pop culture, Facebook's hashtags, Twitter, Facebook over Twitter, hashtags, social networking, facebook chat

Facebook has added support for hashtags, fixing a broken link that prevented its 1.11 billion members from associating themselves with celeb gossip, breaking news, and popular memes.

"Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion," the company wrote in a blog post Wednesday announcing the update. "When you click on a hashtag in Facebook, you'll see a feed of what other people and Pages are saying about that event or topic."

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