Perception

'Those we follow on Facebook have more friends than we do'

The perception that you are smart and funny, and therefore have more following on Facebook may be wrong, as according to a new study on online social media networks "our friends really have more friends than we do".

Twitter can reveal brand image better

A brand's image is related to the characteristics of who their fans follow on the micro-blogging site Twitter, say researchers, suggesting that Twitter fans of certain brands are likely to follow accounts that tweet about the environment.

Rahul’s outburst: A watershed moment in Indian politics?

With his outburst on the ordinance negating the Supreme Court’s verdict on convicted MPs and MLAs, Rahul Gandhi has pitched himself as the Congress's prime ministerial candidate for 2014 as decisively and as controversially as Narendra Modi did.