Yep, those are the people who've made a career out of their love for Instagram. They started out small, maintaining an Instagram account as a hobby, and slowly acquired a surprisingly large number of followers waiting for their next post. These people aren't just charismatic and extremely photogenic, but they are driven and hard-working, which is what allowed them to find [...]
People Share High School Memories on Social Media
We all have unique experiences to share from our time spent in high school. There is no denying that one's time spent in high school is one of the most formative and significant periods of their lives, regardless of whether or not they enjoyed their time there or not. When you leave high school behind and enter the real world, you come to the realization that just because [...]
The perks of being a UPS driver: A secret Facebook group dedicated to the adorable animals they meet on the route
Being a UPS driver is not always a fun job. You're constantly on the road, away from family, and it can get very lonely; unlike office jobs, for example, it's hard to make friends. Luckily for them, UPS driver Sean McCarren decided one day to open a Facebook group dedicated only to UPS drivers, where he reports on all the adorable animals he regularly meets on his route and [...]
Proof That Walmart Might Be the Craziest Place In the World.
Walmart is a superstore unlike any other, having over 11,000 locations, employing over two-million people worldwide, and accumulating over $500 billion in revenue in just 2018. Known for their low prices, with their slogan being "Save money, live better," the store attracts a wide range of consumers who save money on Walmart products. Walmart shoppers have made quite the name [...]
How Yahoo ‘Screwed Up’ Countless Of Business Opportunities
Verizon is about to conclude the $4.83 billion takeover of Yahoo - a company that once defined the internet. The pioneer in search and web content, who was once the biggest name on the world wide web. Verizon will now combined Yahoo with AOL, who itself is another faded internet star, which Verizon also bought last year. SEE ALSO: Google Matched Content – Any [...]
Google New Gmail Features Will Warn Users Of Security Risks
Google has beef up it Gmail security features making the Gmail more secure for users. The new security features will warn users Of security risks like if someone sends you an email that was sent from an insecure service, a red ‘unlock’ icon will alert you. Gmail users will begin to see warnings if they click these links, further extending this protection to different web [...]
Olajumoke Orisaguna Is The Number One Most Searched On Google Nigeria
Olajumoke Orisaguna is now the number one most searched on Google Nigeria. The former bread seller whose luck changed after she photobombed TY Bello photo shoots with Tinie Tempah. Ever since she has appeared in top News website in the U.S and in Nigeria, she even made it to Uberfacts and has graced covers of some top Magazines in Nigeria. Olajumoke and TY Bello was [...]
Instagram To Change How You View Your Feed’s Photos And Videos
Instagram set to change how you view your feed's photos and videos this means that your feed’s photos and videos will soon be showing up in order of what the site believes you’ll engage with the most. Instagram announced the change on its blog earlier, saying: “The order of photos and videos in your feed will be based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, [...]
Facebook Bans Sales Of Guns On Its Site
Social media giant Facebook, has ban private individuals from advertising guns on Facebook and Instagram. The photo-sharing service company said but Licensed firearm retailers will still be able to advertise on the site. The move comes three weeks after US President Barack Obama unveiled new restrictions on gun purchases. Facebook already prohibits people from offering [...]
Longer Tweets Are Coming Soon To Twitter
Twitter users to expect longer tweets from Twitter very soon, the company is considering expanding tweets from 140 characters to 10,000. Users have been complaining about the 140 characters for while now, the longer character will is a good news to Twitter users. Re/code first reported that Twitter was building a product like this back in September. A Twitter spokesperson [...]
Getting Acquainted With Acronyms Used By Teens On Social Media
Getting Acquainted with Acronyms used by teens on internet, social media and texting apps. Imagine sitting next to your girl and she's $ex texting without you having an idea of what she's doing even when you can see her SMS. would you be able to interpret this message if she/he writes I'LL GNOC as soon as 99? See the list of some of these acronyms you need to know [...]
Rusty Porsche Abandoned In A California Barn Sold For Over $150k On eBay
If you are among those doubting the power of the internet and what it's possible through it, you better think again. What would have been done with a rusted 1955 Porsche car that had laid wasted for 41 years in a Californian bar? Well, in case you are wondering of what happened, the rusted-out remains of that outdated 1955 Porsche 356 Speedstar was actually sold for over [...]
Facebook Safety Check Comes In Handy After Paris Attack
Facebook has come under heavy criticism for rolling out their safety check app for Paris attack when they had not done so after the similar attack in Beirut and Baghdad and even Nigeria. More than four million people used the Facebook Safety Check tool to tell their friends they were OK, and over 360 million people got notifications that their friends were safe, according to [...]
Linda Ikeji Mansion, Another Hard Time For Pro Bloggers!
The social media is currently buzzing and what's the news? That Linda Ikeji has just acquired a mansion worth over five hundred million naira in one of the most expensive neighborhood in the world, Banana Island in Nigeria. The Linda Ikeji mansion as expected did not go down well with some people. Congratulation messages as well as hatred messages have been pouring in since [...]
Facebook Launching More Expressive Like Button Instead Of Dislike Button
In a Facebook post made some few minutes ago by the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he made it clear there will not be any "Dislike" button yet. Instead, there will be some sets of emojis to help you express your emotion better other than outright dislike. Read the statement below:- Today we're launching a test of Reactions -- a more expressive Like button. The Like button [...]
Linda Ikeji Finally Get Her Own Domain But Still Not Enough
For the past nine years or so, Linda Ikeji has been blogging on the Google's blospot with second level or sub domain name (lindaikeji.blogspot.com) without any effort to switch to custom top level domain name. Some wonder how someone could be comfortable building or retaining a business that worth millions of dollars on a sub-domain name. Hundreds of articles and comments [...]
Social Media Marketing: Benefits Of Developing A Strategy
Good social media management is arguably the single most important benefit of developing a social media marketing strategy. Under this umbrella, we can derive other benefits. Social media marketing is still an evolving area and expertise is quite fluid. That is, what is obtainable or seen as the norm last month may become obsolete, being overtaken by a new and better [...]
How To Advertise On Facebook (Practical Guide)
Online Advertising is gaining weight over the offline ads on daily basis. The reason being that online advertising strategies and impact are yielding more results than ever. The goal of reaching a target audience has been so reached that an advertiser could know exactly where his niche is. Social media has strategized so many ways to offer advertisers the best value for [...]
How to Setup Lucrative Online Advertising Agency
Most people think the only credible means to make money online is through blogging and eCommerce. But far from that, there are thousands of other credible business opportunities online, and one of them is 'Online Advertising Agency' business. This is one of the most lucrative business you can start online today and you will be sure of making steady income. How does it work? [...]
A Single Tweet From Cristiano Ronaldo Is Worth $250,000
With more than one hundred million followers on Facebook, close to forty million followers on Twitter, and another thirty million on Instagram, Cristiano Ronaldo is probably the most followed person in the world on social media. You and I already know this fact but, what you may not really know is that a single tweet from Cristiano Ronaldo is worth a whooping $300,000, making [...]
Linda Ikeji And Her Blog (See What They Are Missing Badly)
If there is something I really don't like about Linda Ikeji blog, that has to be it's lack of innovation or the lack of innovative spirit of it's owner. This blog is suffering from what has become the normal Nigerian syndrome "don't touch it as long as it is making you some money". Money money money, that's what matters with Nigerians, innovation can go to hell! Linda Ikeji [...]
How Nauru President Banned Country’s Access To Facebook
The President of Nauru has banned his citizen from Using Facebook in the country. He says his country’s blocking off Facebook is about protecting children and to prevent $exual predators. The Nauruan government temporarily blocked the social media site two weeks ago in what it said was an attempt to stop p@rnography coming into the country. Nauruan opposition MPs and [...]
Verizon Set To Acquire AOL In A $4.4 Billion Deal Valued At $50 Per Share
(Mashable) - The deal values AOL at $50 a share, which is 23% more than the company's average stock price over the past three months. AOL's stock jumped 18% in premarket trading after the news, while Verizon stock fell 1.3%, indicating that investors are more excited that AOL is being bought than that Verizon is doing the buying. Once a household name that provided many [...]
EU Court says Skype sounds similar to Sky TV
Microsoft has lost a legal battle to trademark 'Skype' in Europe because it sounds too similar to 'Sky'. A European court ruled that the similarity was likely to cause confusion among customers between the online video chat service and BSkyB's satellite TV and broadband service. The legal squabble started back in 2005 when the broadcaster complained that Skype's branding was [...]
The Internet Would Collapse Within The Next Eight Years (See Facts)
The internet would collapse within the next eight years due to a 'capacity crunch', experts have warned. Our ever-increasing demand for faster data, streaming services and more powerful computers is pushing our communications structure to the limit and led to a looming web crisis, it's claimed. Leading engineers, physicists and telecom companies warn that cables and fiber [...]
Single mum sacked after posting she hates her new job on Facebook
Social media may be free, but a single mother from The Colony is paying a heavy price for using it. Kaitlyn Walls lost her new job at a nearby daycare center, before she ever started it. The single mum was fired from her new job at a daycare centre after she posted on Facebook that she "hated" it. Kaitlyn Walls, 27, who criticised the position just hours before she started [...]
How To Build Your Social Media Reputation Using Sports Reports
The influence of sports in the lives of many could only be compared to that of religion. If you count the number of sports they are, you wonder how many people who could be interested in each of them. But the surprising thing is: as many sports they are, as many fans they are. Counting from the most popular, there are- Achery Basketball Boxing Cycling [...]
Facebook users can now use their account even after death
Facebook now allow it users to use their account in their life-time and after-life. The biggest social network introduces a new feature on Thursday called "legacy contact". The feature is design in way that you can select a specific Facebook friend or family member who will be able to control certain aspects of your page, like your profile and header image, after you [...]
Konga emerges Most visited site in Nigeria
Online mall, Konga.com has been ranked as the most visited website in Nigeria in the latest Alexa rankings. This puts Konga.com ahead of the widely read Nairaland forum and other ecommerce players in the country today. Konga is ranking at number eight Alexa.com and number 7 on Similarweb. The only companies ahead of Konga in the rankings are international websites and social [...]
Google Launches Online Portal for February Elections
Google has launched an online portal whereby voters can keep an eye on the latest news about Nigerian politics in the run-up to the general elections in February. According to Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager for Nigeria, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, the portal - www.google.ng/elections- was designed to serve as a one-stop resource centre for information on every [...]
Facebook and Instagram suffers temporary outrage
Facebook, the world's largest social network, and its Instagram photo-sharing site, suffered temporary outages around the world for up to an hour on Tuesday and the company said later that an internal software networking error was to blame. Facebook spokesman said “This was not the result of a third party attack. But instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected [...]
Be careful of who you befriend on Facebook
Be careful of who you accept as friends on social media. that is an advise coming from a 17 year old Ada Nba Agbaazue, who escaped from a Facebook lover turned rapist who intended to kill her for ritual purpose after sleeping with her in an uncompleted 18 storey building in Abule-Ajanloco,Lagos. Agbazue, who fell from the 18 storey building on a bid to escape from the killer, [...]
How to Increase your Twitter Followers (Hot Tips)
How to increase your Twitter followers is a difficult question many have been asking, yet it's simple if you follow this practical hot tips. Twitter is one of the most desirable social network site for promoting brands and businesses. If your business isn't on Twitter, you aren't in business! If you are not on twitter, you are missing out on one of the world's biggest meeting [...]
MTN unveils plan to promote internet usage among Nigerians
MTN Nigeria has launched the BetterMe campaign to demonstrate how ordinary people can use the internet to do extraordinary things in ways that add values to their lives, CommunicationsWeek reported. General manager for corporate affairs Funmilayo Onajide said that telecom products and services are moving from predominately voice to data and digital services. MTN will introduce [...]
Sony threatens Twitter over hacked materials
Sony through its Lawyer David Boies, has warned twitter to stop disseminating Sony hacked materials on its social network, Motherboard report. The letter sent from David Boies, the lawyer Sony has hired to help guide it through the aftermath of the hack, to Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s general counsel—says that if “stolen information continues to be disseminated by Twitter in any [...]
UBA commences twitter notification for its customers
For UBA plc customers on Twitter, the bank has promised added services as they can now receive notifications for their bank transactions via the social media platform henceforth. If you are a #UBA customer and you are on Twitter, you can now receive transaction alerts via Twitter - Follow us for more stories— Constative (@Constatives) December 18, 2014 The service, [...]
Instagram is now bigger than Twitter
Founded in 2010 by Kevin Systrom, Instagram has grown exponentially non stop and it's now bigger than Twitter. According to the announcement made today by the CEO, Instagram has the potential to "change the world" as he announced the social network has overtaken Twitter with 300 million users. The company's CEO Kevin Systrom described the milestone as "exciting" and said the [...]
World Internet Conference currently ongoing in China
Some of the leading tech executives, such as Facebook’s Vaughan Smith, Apple’s Bruce Sewell, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son, and the hosts of other Internet community and internet policy makers are currently meeting in Wuzhen, China for the World Internet Conference. The conference starts today 19th November and will run through to November 21, [...]