Since Wednesday morning, the topic "Vokalis Band Vierra Diculik" (Vierra Band Vocalist Kidnapped in Indonesian) was on the top of Twitter’s trending topics. It was not only trending in Indonesia alone, but it also became a trending topic across the world for eight hours. This trending topic was triggered when 21 year old celebrity, Widy Soediro Nichlany, the main vocalist of Indonesian band Vierra was reported kidnapped on Wednesday morning. Social media analytics company, Salingsilang captured this phenomenon today afternoon, when there was still no clarity about the case. Keywords like ...
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‘Twitter Contributor’ Launches, Better than Facebook Page Admins [PICS]
This guest post is by Sabyasachi Mitter, the Managing Director of Interface Business Solutions, an India based digital agency. Interface is working closely with Twitter to bring its advertising solutions to Asia. Twitter Contributor is one Twitter feature that brand owners will simply love. Our client,@Tatadocomo, has been given an extra function supporting “contributors” - we gave it a spin and we really can't praise it enough. So we thought of taking you through what this means for businesses. Q: What is a contributor? A contributor is any Twitter handle that can access a ...
Jul 29 2011
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BlackBerry and Justin Bieber: Bringing Canada and Indonesia Together
There are two things that strengthen relations between Indonesia and Canada: BlackBerry and Justin Bieber. Not a surprise, considering these are the two most popular Canadian exports in the country. This was disclosed by the Canadian Ambassador, Mackenzie Clugston, when highlighting bilateral relations between the two nations. Indonesia is the biggest trading partner for Canada in Southeast Asia. Canada supplies some of the electronic gadgets that now have become a trend and a lifestyle in the country. Also, many Canadian companies are now operating in Indonesia and employed thousands of Indonesian ...
Jul 3 2011
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Tata Docomo, The First Brand in India To Run Twitter Ads
There are ways for brands to acquire fans legally and quickly on Facebook. And while Twitter has been a different story up until now, things may be changing.. We hear from the folks at Interface Business Solutions, a digital advertising firm in India, that the microblog is working to make follower acquisition possible. Google, for example, is one of the brands which has embraced ads on the microblog. A senior Twitter representative told Interface, “Currently my group is focused on working with the largest Fortune 1,000 brands globally. We also have a team ...
Aug 23 2011
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Twitter Doesn’t Cut It For Disaster Communication
Twitter was a pretty important communication tool for many people immediately after the Japan earthquake. Over on the Twitter blog this morning, there are a couple of great visualizations showing how Tweets spread across the globe after the disaster hit. It’s strikingly beautiful, until you reflect on what many of those messages meant — then it’s far more sobering. According to Twitter, the replies to Japan-based users are in pink and messages sent to Japan are in yellow. Check it out for yourself. If you want to drill down to what specific ...
Jun 29 2011
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IM3 Mobile Academy For Indonesian Students
To fill in the school holidays, telecommunications company Indosat is holding the IM3 Mobile Academy 2011 program to seek out the brightest and most talented teenagers throughout Indonesia. In auditions in 30 locations across the nation since May, 150 high school students have been selected to attend the Mobile Academy camp for five days. "Through this event,” explains Devimaz Gusmal, Division Head of Brand Maintenance at Indosat, “participants can self-learn, sharpen their talents, and develop their hobbies into something ‘profitable’ through online media." For five days the Mobile Academy participants will be ...
Jun 28 2011
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Virus Attack on Sina Weibo
China’s Sina Weibo experienced what we believe is its very first virus outbreak this evening. Within only a few hours, over 30,000* users were affected, before the virus maker was spotted and his account, @hellosamy, was deleted by Sina. This evening, a large amount of Weibo users clicked on links from that account and started to automatically forward the spam weibos and private messages to others on the Sina Weibo platform. Whoever clicks those links will repeat the same auto-forwarding process, and they also automatically follow @hellosamy. Most spam weibos had ...
Jun 25 2011
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Ai Weiwei Banned From Twitter, Silenced After His Release
There are concerns today that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been banned from Twitter by authorities, despite his recent release from prison. After protests on Facebook, Change.org, and a surprise appearance in a video at TED, the artist and activist is out on one year bail, due to his “good attitude” in admitting to tax evasion, the AFP reported. The release, however, is purported to come with several conditions: Ai has to seek permission before leaving Beijing Ai cannot accept interviews requested by foreign media Ai is banned from Twitter, as he told ...
Jun 24 2011
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Indonesian Man Rivals Jesus, the Bible in Facebook Engagement
Judging from the level of interaction on Facebook this week, Indonesian motivator Mario Teguh has climbed up to third place in the weekly interaction and engagement ranking, according to AllFacebook. It means that this public figure is only a couple of steps behind the top two religious pages ‘Jesus Daily’ and The Bible as one of the most engaging Facebook pages in the world. Mario's Facebook page managed to attract 237,110 new fans from last month according to SocialBakers, bringing his total fan count to more than 4.2 million right now. ...
Jun 23 2011
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The Social Media Landscape in India [VIDEO]
Want to know how India is shaping up in the social media space? The country is doing great and the good folks at Nielsen India, made a video to explain exactly that. (They seriously deserve a like on Facebook for creating this awesome video.) They revealed several interesting statistics. Of the 80 million Indians online, one-third of them are on social media sites. Breaking down the stats, there are about: 28 million Facebook users 9 million Twitter users 9 million LinkedIn users in India. Social media is so popular among Indian Internet users that consulting ...
Jun 21 2011
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China’s Anthony Weiner: Govt Official Mistakenly Woos Mistress on Weibo
Anthony Weiner, you've got company! An official in southern China has been using the Sina Weibo microblog as a chatting tool to talk and flirt with his mistress, talking about their hotel date, and claiming illegal redemption of personal expenses. Amazingly even after their Weibo chats attracted thousands of followers, they had no idea that Weibo was a public place, and that messages were visible to anyone. They thought it was a private QQ-like instant message service! Mr. Xie, head of the local sanitation bureau, and his mistress reportedly both have ...
Jun 26 2011
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Indonesia Tweets Protest Against Beheading Case
When an Indonesian migrant worker in Saudi Arabia was beheaded, trending topics on Twitter in Indonesia soon became dominated by the keywords "Saudi Arabia" and "hukum pancung" (beheading punishment). The Indonesian public got very vocal on Twitter, not only protesting the woman’s death sentence, but also criticizing the Indonesian government, which people feel was slow in dealing with this case. This hot topic on Twitter appeared on the weekend, when Ruyati binti Sapubi, the Indonesian migrant worker in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to death by beheading - according to the Islamic ...
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