SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Global online social networking service (SNS) Twitter Inc. aims to make more people participate in “public conversation” in South Korea, the company’s chief said Friday. “We believe public conversation influences and drives society,” CEO Jack Patrick Dorsey told reporters in Seoul, adding that the company is focusing on making [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Twitter Inc. said Friday that 5.3 billion tweets were created last year globally about K-pop. “Twitter continues to show that it’s the best place to find out what’s happening with K-pop and to talk about it with K-pop fans around the world,” the U.S. microblogging website said. Some of [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Instead of getting defensive, a receptive stance entailing an apologetic attitude is a more efficient approach for companies that are under fire and are subsequently attempting to cool public outrage on social media, research has found. A research team from UNIST examined Twitter data for 12 companies that were [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Koreans are relying on social media to air their grievances, more so than for positive feelings, a new study has found. Artificial intelligence-based big data analysis released by Daumsoft on Monday revealed that more South Koreans expressed their personal feelings on social media last year [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation boy band BTS has set a world record for Twitter engagements, its agency Big Hit Entertainment said Wednesday. The group has earned the honor, which is published by Guinness World Records, as the music group with the most Twitter engagements. It achieved an average of 152,112 retweets [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Where Trump goes, his Twitter feed will follow, as the U.S. president has left a running diary of his stops in Japan and South Korea through a series of tweets. With the South Korean leg of his journey at a close, Trump heads to Bejiing, prompting curious observers to [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Sending tweets up to 280 characters is now a possibility for all users, though Twitter has stated Korean, Chinese and Japanese messages will be sticking to the original 140-character limit. On November 7, an announcement detailing the change was posted on Twitter’s official blog. What is eye-catching is [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Company workers use about three social networking services (SNS) on average, mostly to get and share information, but a majority of them feel exhausted by unwanted information and marketing that come with the services, a poll showed Wednesday. Hunet, a provider of career education, surveyed 821 people working for [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Data published from Twitter earlier this week suggests some users have sent tweets about South Korean boy band EXO from North Korea, a country where enjoying South Korean pop culture could land you in jail. Over 11 million tweets were made about the popular South Korean boy band around [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Twitter often offers the best reflection of current issues, whether they be social, political, tech trends or celebrity gossip. So what were some of the keywords on Twitter that were most popular among Koreans in 2016? According to Twitter Korea on Tuesday, tweets related to the Choi Soon-sil scandal [...]