Advertising in the mobile version of VKontakte will appear in the summer of 2014. This was stated by the company's executive director Dmitry Sergeev, ITAR-TASS reports . Dmitry Sergeev did not name the exact date for the launch of mobile advertising on VKontakte, but noted that the company is targeting the summer of this year. The executive director of the largest social network on the Runet noted that the corresponding department of VKontakte will sell mobile advertising.

A student at an unnamed medical school who goes by the pseudonym Elizabeth Rainey will begin auctioning her virginity in April. reports The Daily Dot . Elizabeth told The Daily Dot that her virginity has absolutely no meaning to her, so she sees no reason not to sell it.

South Korean officials are pushing ahead with a plan to install a special app on students' smartphones that will give teachers full control over the devices. This was reported by The Verge , citing the local site Bloter . In provinces where the initiative is approved, the iSmartKeeper application will be installed on schoolchildren's smartphones , which determines what functions and services the device owner has access to.

Runet believed in Tyutchev’s non-existent poem Against the backdrop of events in Ukraine and Crimea, a hooligan poem about Europe, allegedly written by Fyodor Tyutchev, became widespread on the RuNet. In fact, the Russian writer has nothing to do with these lines. on VKontakte The first mentions of the poem attributed to Fyodor Tyutchev appeared on March 16. Along with the name of the writer, the year in which he allegedly wrote these lines is also indicated.

The microblogging service Twitter is thinking about how to make hashtags and replays more understandable to the mass user, and may abandon their usual forms. reports this BuzzFeed . Speaking at a journalism conference in Denver on March 17, Twitter's head of news, Vivian Schiller, called hashtags and replays (replies starting with the @ sign "at") "obscure" and hinted that the service might hide them in the future. deeper.

While the US State Department is maintaining a Russian-language account about the situation in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry is having fun publishing poetry While the US State Department maintains a Russian-language account about the situation in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry is having fun publishing informal posts on the official website and on social networks. TJournal selected several examples of how propaganda is created on the RuNet.

reports Former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo was charged with transferring company secrets, including copies of the Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems, Seattle Pi . Alex Kibkalo, a former senior architect at Microsoft, was arrested on March 19. A Russian-born man has been charged with stealing Microsoft secrets and passing them on to an unnamed French tech blogger. Kibkalo has already officially admitted his guilt.

The Newsbeat app from The Tribune Company , which also produces the popular daily newspaper Chicago Tribune, will give users the opportunity to receive news in audio format. application The free Newsbeat will allow the user to quickly receive news from the media he is interested in, or on specified topics and keywords. At the same time, you can both read and listen to news on an iOS or Android device. The application aggregates up to 7 thousand world, national and local news per day.

How Russian celebrities started their microblogs Author: Mikhail Kafanov The microblogging service celebrated its eighth birthday with the Discover Twitter page , on which it summed up the results of past years and once again tried to explain to potential users the advantages of the site. At the same time, Twitter gave its current fans the opportunity to take a look back through the First Tweet service .

The Turkish government has blocked access to the Twitter microblogging service in the country. This was reported by the Hurriyet Daily News . Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Erdogan Türkiye has blocked access to Twitter. This happened just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statement. Now we have a court order. We will end Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will feel the power of the Turkish Republic.

UCP is going to take Telegram under the control of VKontakte, proving the use of the company's resources Forbes magazine published an article describing the chronology of the development of the conflict between VKontakte shareholders with details of their negotiations, media pressure and pursued goals. The main conclusion that the publication comes to is that Durov has already lost control over the company and may lose Telegram, so he should leave the post of CEO right now.

The Washington Post attributed to Vladimir Putin words written on his behalf in a fake Twitter account. His first tweet was congratulating Barack Obama on winning the 2012 US presidential election, the newspaper said. Congratulations to US President-elect Barack Obama http://t.co/wi0upVQB — Vladimir Putin (@PutinRF_Eng) November 8, 2012 On March 20, Twitter launched a special page where users could determine what their first tweet was on the microblogging service.

An American woman used social networks to find her plane seatmate and make an advertisement for Samsung. An American woman, with the help of social networks, found a young man sitting next to her on the plane. At the same time, as The Daily Dot notes , she did not forget to mention that the reunion took place thanks to her Samsung gadget.

The ITeco company analyzed the activity of Russian-speaking users on social networks using the Brand Analytics monitoring tool. This was reported in a press release received by TJournal. Among Russian residents over 18 years of age, 57 percent (66.5 million people) use the Internet. Over the past year, the monthly audience of Runet grew by 9 percent, and the daily audience by 14 percent. 80 percent of all Runet users use social networks.

The owner of the American medical clinic The Facial Room announced the renaming of his company due to the invasion of porn lovers. the update on the website of a small private skin clinic were the first to notice Reddit users . Instead of descriptions of various services, a statement appeared on the main page. Unfortunately I have to delete my acne clinic website because of porn sites, mainly from Russia, sending me streams of perverts who think it is a porn site!