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After Dulquer Salmaan, Suresh Gopi denies having an account on Clubhouse. The superstar has alerted fans about people impersonating him on the social networking platform. Clubhouse, an audio-only social networking app has been gaining popularity lately and many fake profiles impersonating celebrities have been created on the platform reportedly. Suresh Gopi recently took to his official Twitter handle and shared that it is disturbing to see impersonation on social platforms. The actor further warned that such tomfoolery will have severe consequences. This is absolutely disturbing! Impersonating a person on a social platform and bluffing others with his voice. Kindly note that I haven't started any account on Clubhouse. Any further tomfoolery will be seriously dealt with, Suresh Gopi said. Earlier, Dulquer Salmaan had said that it is not cool to impersonate him on social media. So, I am not on Clubhouse. These accounts are not mine. Please dont impersonate me on social media. Not Cool! Dulquer shared. Prithviraj Sukumaran too denied being on the particular platform. On the work front, Suresh Gopi was filming for 'Paapppan', a movie helmed by Joshiy, prior to the lockdown. The superstar has roped in to play the lead role of Abraham Mathew Mathan in the film. The team was shooting in Pala and had put the shoot on a temporary halt considering the current scenario. Meanwhile, Suresh Gopi has also signed for 'Kaaval', an upcoming movie directed by Nithin Renji Panicker and the actor will be seen in the action hero avatar in the upcoming film.Suresh Gopi's last outing was 'Varane Avashyamund' helmed by Anoop Sathyan. He shared the screen with his all-time favourite co-star Shobana in the film, and it undeniably won the hearts of the audience.

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Tinder will finally be letting users avoid all their exes, friends, colleagues, relatives, and anyone else they might not want to run into on a dating app. The company announced today that it will start allowing people to block their phone contacts.

According to The Verge, romance-seekers can access the feature from their settings, under the Block Contacts menu, where they can define which contact they would like to block, meaning these people will not surface for them, and vice versa.

Users can either upload their full contacts list to Tinder or add them individually. Tinder said it will not store everyone's contacts, only the ones they have chosen to block and people can unblock or disconnect their contacts list at any time.

Blocked contacts will not be notified they have been blocked. There is no easy way of knowing if an ex or other undateworthy person even has a Tinder account, it's more of a preventative measure. If a blocked individual has since changed their phone number and joins Tinder, their account could still surface.

Those who wanted to avoid the possibility of an awkward digital run-in forever, this might, finally, give them a fighting chance at doing so.

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Social networking website owned and operated by Google

Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google in its later years. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Bykkkten.[citation needed]

Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008.[1][2][3] In 2008, Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.[4][5][6][7]

On June 30, 2014, Google announced it would be closing Orkut on September 30, 2014.[8] No new accounts could be created starting from July 2014. Users could download their profile archive by Google Takeout.[9]

Orkut's features and interface changed significantly with time. Initially, each member could become a fan of any of the friends in their list and also evaluate whether their friend is "Trustworthy", "Cool", "Sexy" on a scale of 1 to 3 (marked by icons), which was aggregated as a percentage[citation needed]. Unlike Facebook, where one can only view profile details of people in their network, Orkut initially allowed anyone to visit everyone's profile, unless a potential visitor was on a person's "Ignore List" (this feature was eventually changed so that users could choose between showing their profile to all networks or specified ones). Each member was also able to customize their profile preferences and restrict information that appears on their profile from their friends and/or others. Another feature was that any member can add any other member on Orkut to his/her "Crush List".[citation needed]

When a user logged in, they saw the people in their friends list in the order of their login to the site, the first person being the latest one to do so. Orkut's competitors were other social networking sites including Myspace and Facebook. The site Ning was a more direct competitor, as it allowed for the creation of social networks similar to Orkut's "communities".

An Orkut user was also able to add videos to their profile from either YouTube or Google Video with the additional option of creating either restricted or unrestricted polls for polling a community of users. There was at one point an option to integrate GTalk with Orkut, enabling chat and file sharing. Similar to Facebook, users could also use a "like" button to share interests with friends.[11] Users could also change their interface from a wide range of colorful themes in the library. Themes were only available in Brazil and India.[12] Orkut was arguably 'the only thriving social networking site' in India during 20052008.

Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google. Orkut Bykkkten, a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent project while working at Google. While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Bykkkten and Google had based Orkut on InCircle code. The allegation is based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in Orkut that also existed in InCircles.[13]

On August 25, 2007, Orkut announced a redesign and the new UI contained round corners and soft colors, including small logotype at upper left corner. By August 30, 2007, most users on Orkut could see changes on their profile pages as per the new redesign. On August 31, 2007, Orkut announced its new features including improvements to the way you view your friends, 9 rather than 8 of your friends displayed on your homepage and profile page and basic links to your friends' content right under their profile picture as you browse through their different pages. It also announced the initial release of Orkut in 6 new languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. Profile editing could then take place by clicking the settings button under the user profile photo (or alternatively, clicking the blue settings link at the top of any page).

On September 4, 2007, Orkut announced that user would be able to see an "Updates from your friends" box on the homepage, where it would be possible to obtain real-time updates when friends made changes to their profiles, photos and videos. Moreover, in case someone wanted to keep some information on their profile private, Orkut added an opt-out button on the settings page. Scraps were also HTML-enabled letting users post videos or pictures. On November 8, 2007, Orkut greeted its Indian users Happy Diwali by allowing them to change their Orkut look to a Diwali-flavored reddish theme. On April Fools' Day 2008, Orkut temporarily changed its name on its webpage to yogurt, apparently as a prank. On June 2, 2008, Orkut launched its theming engine with a small set of default themes.[14] Photo tagging also was available.

On October 27, 2009, Orkut released their 2nd redesigned version.[15] It was available to only a few users at first. These users were able to send invites to their Orkut friends to join this new version. The new version used Google Web Toolkit (GWT), thus making extensive use of AJAX in the user interface. However, users of the new version could still switch back to the old one.

Google stated the new Orkut was faster, simpler, and more customizable. More particular features included video chat, promotions and easy navigation.

The look was completely new. User interface and workflow were also drastically changed. Orkut added different colours choices for the users profiles. The themes were eventually removed and an Orkut badge was visible for those who didn't change to the new Orkut. The new logo also had the word "My" in it, as in My Orkut. Vertical scroll bars were added in the friend and community list in the home page to allow viewing all friends/communities from the home page itself. In the home page, the recent visitor's list now displayed six most recent visitor's profile image as small clickable icons. Orkut also allowed users to sign in with their Google Mail, or Gmail, credentials.

Before the introduction of the New Orkut, users had two options to message friends: via the scrapbook (equivalent to the Facebook wall) or by sending a private message. Since the New Orkut introduced a privacy control[16] for scraps posted to the scrapbook, the messages system was disabled in this version, but not for those still using the old version.[17][18] This created a strange situation in which messages sent by a user of the old version to someone using the New Orkut go completely unnoticed by its recipient (the New Orkut does not inform the user of these lost messages, that can only be read if he/she switches back to the old version).

As with any online social networking community, a number of fake and cloned profiles existed on Orkut.[19] Due to the large number of users and the deactivation of the jail system,[clarification needed] the profiles were often left unremoved or, when removed, recreated easily.

In 2005, incidents of racism among Orkut users were reported to police and were documented in Brazilian media.[20] In 2006, a judicial measure was opened by the Brazil federal justice denouncing a 20-year-old student accused of racism against those of Black African ancestry and spreading defamatory content on Orkut.[21] Brazilian Federal Justice subpoenaed Google in March 2006 to explain the crimes that had occurred in Orkut.[22]

Orkut had a Report Abuse feature available for all communities. Orkut communities could be reported if they contain hateful/violent content.

Orkut was very popular in Iran, but the website was then blocked by the government. According to official reports, this was due to national security issues, and Islamic ethical issues about dating and match-making. To get around this block, sites such as orkutproxy.com (now defunct) were made for Iranian users. Other websites such as Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups had communities dedicated to receiving updates on the newest location of Iran's Orkut proxy. At one time it had been possible to bypass governmental blockage of Orkut, but the site had closed its HTTPS pages on all anonymous proxies. Then it was almost impossible for ordinary users to visit this site inside Iran.[23]

Many other sites have been published in Iran since Orkut's blockage, using the same social-networking model examples include MyPardis, Cloob and Bahaneh.[24]

In August 2006, the United Arab Emirates followed the footsteps of Iran in blocking the site. This block was subsequently removed in October 2006. On July 3, 2007, Gulf News revisited the issue, publishing complaints from members of the public against Orkut communities like "Dubai Sex", and officially bringing the complaints to the attention of the state telecom monopoly Etisalat.[25] By July 4, 2007, Etisalat placed a renewed ban on the site,[26] which remained in effect despite Google's promise to negotiate the ban with the UAE.[27]

Saudi Arabia is another country that had blocked access to Orkut, while Bahrain's Information Ministry was also under pressure to follow suit.[28]

On June 19, 2006, FaceTime Security Labs' security researchers Christopher Boyd and Wayne Porter discovered a worm, dubbed MW.Orc.[29] The worm steals users' banking details, usernames and passwords by propagating through Orkut. The attack was triggered as users launched an executable file disguised as a JPEG file. The initial executable file that caused the infection installed two additional files on the user's computer. These files then e-mailed banking details and passwords to the worm's anonymous creator when infected users clicked on the "My Computer" icon. The infection spread automatically by posting a URL in another user's Orkut Scrapbook, a guestbook where visitors could leave comments visible on the user's page. This link used to lure visitors with a message in Portuguese, falsely claiming to offer additional photos. The message text that carried an infection link varied from case to case. In addition to stealing personal information, the malware could also enable a remote user to control the PC and make it part of a botnet, a network of infected PCs.

The initial executable file (Minhasfotos.exe) created two additional files when activated, winlogon_.jpg and wzip32.exe (located in the System32 Folder). When the user clicked the "My Computer" icon, a mail was sent containing their personal data. In addition, they might be added to an XDCC Botnet (used for file sharing), and the infection link might be sent to other users that they knew in the Orkut network. The infection could be spread manually, but also had the ability to send "back dated" infection links to people in the "friends list" of the infected user. According to statements made by Google, as noted in Facetime's Greynets Blog, the company had implemented a temporary fix for the dangerous worm.[29]

On June 22, 2007 Susam Pal and Vipul Agarwal published a security advisory on Orkut vulnerabilities related to authentication issues.[30] The vulnerabilities were considered very dangerous in cybercafes, or in the case of man-in-the-middle attack as they could lead to session hijacking and misuse of legitimate accounts.[31] The vulnerabilities were not known to be fixed yet and therefore posed threat to the Orkut users.

A week later, on June 29, 2007 Susam Pal published another security advisory which described how the Orkut authentication issue could be exploited to hijack Google and Gmail sessions and misuse the compromised account of a legitimate user under certain conditions...

Joseph Hick performed an experiment on the basis of the advisories published by Susam Pal, to find out how long a session remains alive even after a user logs out.[32] His experiment confirmed that the sessions remain alive for 14 days after the user has logged out. It implies that a hijacked session could be used for 14 days by the hijacker because logging out did not kill the session.[33]

On December 19, 2007, a worm written in Javascript started to cause havoc. Created by a Brazilian user called "Rodrigo Lacerda", it automatically made the user join the virus related community and infect all friends' scrapbooks with copies of itself, the worm infected over 700,000 Orkut users. The worm is spreading through Orkut's recently introduced tool that allows users to write messages that contain HTML code. The ability to add Flash/Javascript content to Orkut scraps was only recently introduced.[34][35]

On October 10, 2006, the Bombay High Court's Aurangabad bench served a notice on Google for allowing a hate campaign against India.[36] This referred to a community on Orkut called 'We Hate India', which initially carried a picture of an Indian flag being burned and some anti-India content.[37] The High Court order was issued in response to a public-interest petition filed by an Aurangabad advocate. Google had six weeks to respond. Even before the petition was filed, many Orkut users had noticed this community and were mailing or otherwise messaging their contacts on Orkut to report the community as bogus to Google, which could result in its removal. The community has now been deleted but has spawned several 'We hate those who hate India' communities. Prior to the 60th Independence Day of India, Orkut's main page was revamped. The section which usually displayed a collage of photos of various people, showed a stylized Orkut logo. The word Orkut was written in Devanagari script and was coloured in Indian national colours. Clicking on the logo redirects to a post by the Orkut India ProductManager, Manu Rekhi,[38] on the Orkut internal blog. There has also been some media outcry against Orkut after a couple of youngsters were apparently lured by fake profiles on the site and later murdered.[39]

On November 24, 2006, Bombay High Court asked the state government to file its reply in connection with a petition demanding a ban on social networking site, Orkut, for hosting an anti-Shivaji Web community.[40]

In 2007, the Pune rural police cracked a rave party filled with narcotics.[41] The accused have been charged under anti-narcotic laws, the (Indian) Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropics Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS). Besides the NDPS, according to some media reports, the police were deliberating on the issue of charging the accused under the (Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000 perhaps because Orkut was believed to be a mode of communication for drug abuses of this kind.[42]

The police in India have entered into an agreement with Orkut to have a facility to catch and prosecute those misusing Orkut since complaints are rising.[43]

On August 22, 2006, Brazilian Federal Judge Jos Marcos Lunardelli ordered Google to release by September 28 Orkut user's information of a list of about twenty-four Brazilian nationals, believed to be using Orkut to sell drugs and to be involved in child pornography. The judge ordered Google to pay $23,000 per day in fines until the information is turned over to the Brazilian government. According to the Brazilian government, the information would also be used to identify individuals who are spreading child pornography[44] and hate speech. As of September 27, 2006 Google has stated that it will not release the information, on the grounds that the requested information is on Google servers in the U.S. and not Google servers in Brazil, and is therefore not subject to Brazilian laws.[45]

On June 30, 2014, Google announced that Orkut would be shutting down completely on September 30, 2014. Users could export their photo albums before the final shutdown date. Orkut profiles, scraps, testimonials, and community posts could be exported until September 2016.[46] Google engineering director Paulo Golgher said in a blog post: "Over the past decade, Facebook, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell." Orkut was the result of a 20 percent project in which Google workers got to spend a fifth of their time on ideas not necessarily related to their job responsibilities.[47][48]However, the public contents of all public communities were archived by Google, and are available permanently for consulting online in the Orkut Community Archive [1] (although editing is no longer possible.)

The website still exists, but shows a letter from the founder, stating that Hello would be the replacement of Orkut and "it is the first social media site based on loves, not likes." Hello is operated under Hello Networks, not Google.[49]

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Social networks rock this world. They have got our most valuable treasures: time and attention; they have attracted billions of dollars of investments and helped former ordinary students like Marc Zuckerbergjoin the top wealthiest people list.

Online networking is this centurys phenomenon. At the same time, each network is a wide area of enormous opportunities.

People spend more than 2 hours per day on social media channels. And can you believe that an Internet user has a profile on more than 7 social media channels on average? Isnt it a mystery how easily this type of digital tools accessed our life and integrated into our habits? Indeed, it is. And it seems like this type of tool was made for making business

But now, lets switch from psychology and philosophy to more indispensable topics: how to create a social media website and how to make money with it. Bit by bit, we will shed light on the following essentials:

Find this and much more in our report on how to create a social network.

Either it's love or addiction, the popularity of social networks is reasonable. And here well talk about the reasons:

Profile on a social network is the easiest way to keep in touch with friends overseas, families which are hundreds of miles away, former classmates who went volunteering in Cambodia and so on. No need for calls or personal meetings. However, a person always keeps a hand on the pulse of his or her Facebook friends life. Its convenient and effortless, so people love it.

Either you are a bookworm or a huge fan of fishing, you will easily find fellows with similar interests on a specific networking web app. Unlike many years ago when a hobby gathered people in clubs and libraries, now, online channels are much more popular for this purpose. Each hobby can be reflected in social networks in the best way.

Networking sites like Facebook arent just about communication and sharing cats photos. Now, social media are powerful online trading tools. Several clicks and you can get everything you want right to your doorstep. You can order both products and services on social media in a few seconds.

We have already postulated that social media is great for trading. Besides, these are powerful promotional and PR channels. People talk about brands on social media; people complain about services or share their positive reviews there, too. Most of the adults that use social media websites like to follow brands on social media. Each social network is an enormous source of opportunities and revenue for both established brands and small businesses.

From another point of view, a social network is a useful tool for corporate communication. Building a social networking site, a company deals with employee collaboration and productivity improvement. Microsoft demonstrates great proofs: especially in the case of remote employment, a corporate social network is of great significance.

Do you know that Facebook web app has started its path to success from Harvard University? Yeah, initially, it was just a student directory featuring photos and personal information. Now, this is a social network with more than 2.3 billion users (thats almost 33% of the worlds population) with net income of $22 billion in 2018. Are you interested in building a social media website for a school, university or a particular department? Take a look at The Social Network drama and proceed with the next chapter of our article.

All these points give us enough reasons to dive deeper into the topic and shed some light on how to build a social network website from scratch.

An online social network is a website where groups of Internet users can meet, communicate (typically via chats or online calls), share and create content, react to this content and build own digital network of contacts.

Planning to build a successful web app and win the attention of millions of users, it is crucial to choose the type of social network. Consider these types and make a choice:

The most common and the most famous type among modern social networking channels. In this sort of network, users can build connections with people they know in real life and people theyd like to get acquainted with. Users share their thoughts, photos, updates on their social media profiles and build a whole network.

This sort of networks is built to improve online communication among the representatives of one corporation. Earlier weve mentioned the case of Microsoft: such a network with limited access for specialists of one company only is a good example. The critical feature of a business network is exceptional security.

If youve ever tried Linkedin, you already know how the professional social network looks like. Here, users highlight their career specifics and achievements, present their skills, share their experience and create communities. Still, the goal is the seamless communication; however, the focus is on formal professional networking only.

The scenario is quite like the one described above. However, in a case with entertaining networks, its users gather here because they have common hobbies, love the same books or prefer the same TV shows.

Entertainment and hobbies connect people. Science and investigations do, too. On websites like Academia, people share scientific articles and research results, as well as their opinions about each particular case.

If hobbies can bring people together, why romantic relations cant? This type of web apps become highly popular nowadays. Although it seems like you can meet your partner on Facebook as well, apps like PlentyOfFish have set the market on fire.

This is how Instagram has born; this is how Flickr and YouTube look like. On social networks like this, people now can share visual content, communicate and even promote their businesses!

Looking for the answers to your question, whered you go? Mostly, Internet users ask Google about what bothers them the most. But informational social networks change the tendency. Now, you can find useful, reliable, expert answers on social networking platforms like Quora.

Now, when youve chosen the type of network, its time to find out more about how to create a social network and define key steps to reach the goal.

Your path towards social network development will take time, efforts and resources. The deeper you dive into the process and the more skilled engineers you work with, the better solution youll launch.

Here are top steps to take to deploy a social network website from scratch:

Lets analyze each step, find out more about essential functionality and get closer to the viable social network website.

Lets say, you plan to create a social network website for book lovers. To start the process, you need to answer several questions first:

Depending on the type of your social network, questions may change but the core is always the same. To make a difference with your social network, make sure you:

These 3 cornerstones are essential to keep in mind when thinking about how to start a social network.

You already have a vision of how a perfect social network should look like. To draw a better, brighter and more clear-cut picture, share your opinion with your teammates and external experts; look at this with potential users eyes. Thorough planning and new ideas would become fuel for your further movement.

How to create a social media website that will attract users attention? On this stage, you should also come up with a catchy and easy-to-remember name of your website. Depending on your social networks specifics, there may be an ocean of options. You should pick the simplest and the brightest one. But what about the options you should ignore?

Study the market, think about your own business and come up with a brilliant name.

Creating your own social network is good. Creating a social network that brings you money is much better, isnt it? Thus, on this stage, you should decide how to monetize this website.

Typically, there are the 5 most popular ways to make a profit with a social media website:

Even though Internet users dont like annoying digital advertising, it is still one of the best ways to monetize a website. Working on a design concept, think whether you have enough space for attractive banners to catch users attention.

Employing this method, you promote content published by particular organizations or individuals. Content appears in top of newsfeed, it is suggested to target audience and gets more views than a typical post on a social network. In turn, promoted content creators pay for this service and get more post views and followers.

Lets say, you provide access to basic functionality for free. But on top of that, you can build catchy games or implement AR tools or offer a great photo editor for a defined fee. If the paid functionality is really nice, users will be ready to invest a few dollars in it.

What if you charge your users for listening to music on your website? If you have a good rich database with great audio files, you can grant access to this sort of content for a fee.

In some cases, users pay to enter a specific social network. For example, if you run a powerful professional or job search network, you can charge your users for a subscription.

Once youve got to know how the situation in the market looks like and whos your key competitors, when youve come up with a great name and got a strong intention to make money with a striking web app, it is time to define how the process will look like. Here, well show you the step-by-step guide on how to create a social media website.

A prototype is a simple model of your future social networking app. It demonstrates the apps general idea and allows building the relations about different components and screens. Making a prototype doesnt require extraordinary technical skills but helps to visualize the concept and improve it easily.

Design is one of the most significant stages of the entire process. Here, an in-depth understanding of users wishes and preferences is a must. Apps design includes creating a user interface and user experience parts. So whatever happens, your design must be:

Study users preferences and stick to the defined, most suitable color scheme. Find out more about the latest trends in software design and select those that would help you to acquire new users and make them keep using your network.

To create social media website, engineers implement design from a prototype in a real web app. Here, you should decide on the most important functionality and start enhancing your website with things that make it special.

Weve shortlisted the essential features the users will appreciate; take a look at them:

This functionality is a must. Each additional feature will warm up users interest; however, without the ones weve described your networking site will be rather weak. So here the tip from CS team: focus on basic must-have set of features and launch an MVP. Once youll see your product works and attracts attention, you can augment it with more advanced functionality.

Talking about features, there are 3 more things to remember:

You as a social network website owner should either be aware of everything that happens on your platform or hire a responsible person for that. To manage processes properly, to keep a hand on interactions, to have access to statistics and to block/ delete any account, admin panel is required. It should demonstrate a convenient and intuitive interface as well as provide access to all the needed data.

As your platform will grove, data storage will extend, too. A database will contain various types of data like text, video, audio, photo content etc. It should be flexible and scalable, powerful and well secured. To make the right choice between relational vs non-relational databases, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and many others, extra research and some tips from the development team will be useful.

Do you plan to monetize your web app? Have you already chosen how exactly to monetize it? Anyway, to do so, you should integrate your programming solution with well-known payment gateways like PayPal and enable payment with credit cards.

The point is to build a high-quality network so the users would fall in love with its impeccable functionality. Thus, a websites testing is an integral part of the entire process. First of all, software engineers write unit tests to make sure the code is written correctly. Then, QA/QC engineers do their job and check if every single websites component works well.

After months of hard work, the production stage comes. In case if you write a social network app for mobile, you need to check App Store and Play Market requirements in order to publish your app there and make it available for iPhones and Android smartphone users.

Another significant component of the process is social network promotion. Actually, marketing is the never-ending process: from the moment the idea comes to your mind and till the day when youll reach 1 million active users (and even later on) youll need to invest in powerful marketing strategies and use the latest trends to make your way to success. Use existing social networks and popular websites to promote your business; start an informative blog and create special offers for your very first users. Find the key to peoples hearts and dont hesitate to use it.

For marketing needs, various metrics would be useful. Measure customer acquisition cost (or how much money you need to invest to attract a new user) and user activation statistics (or the relation between the number of active users and downloads); keep an eye on churn rate (a number of users who stopped using your tool) and user engagement (the time users spend in your app). These metrics reflect your chances to join the group of leaders in your segment so dont underestimate the importance of quantitative data for your business.

Now when you are fully aware of how the typical development process looks like and what features to add to your website it is time to answer the following questions:

To launch a powerful and profitable solution, you need to delegate development tasks to competent experts with deep experience in social network websites development. The team should include:

The group of creative-thinkers will come up with a great prototype and suggest the best ways to appeal to the potential users with a networking website. They know everything about Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and similar tools and have a clear vision of an attractive app.

These specialists are responsible for user interface development. In fact, they turn a simple prototype to an app. Their key skills include HTML/CSS, JavaScript and its most popular frameworks like React or Angular. Along with engineering skills, they have well-developed creativity and attention to details.

On the other side of barricades, back-end developers work. They are proficient in server-side development and take care of the apps architecture and logic; they create APIs and websites core; they work with databases and make sure the app responds correctly to the queries from the front-end. For a high-quality networking website development, back-end programming languages like PHP, Ruby or Python would be acceptable. Back-end engineers should be also aware of algorithms and able to solve system related issues.

As we have mentioned above, software testing is essential to deliver a powerful software solution. Thus, you need to cooperate with manual software testers and automation QA/QC engineers. Testers check buttons, fields, lists, colors and other websites components manually while QA/QC experts write automation tests to ensure all the features work well.

To handle all the development hustle and bustle, an experienced Project Manager should lead the team. For this person, understanding of engineering and testing processes as well as advanced communication and soft skills are a must.

Do you wonder how much time these specialists need to invest in your website? Heres brief approximate info:

In case if you plan to produce social network website with basic functionality and involvement of 7 specialists, you need to invest approximately:

Keep in mind that the number of team members and the amount of costs to invest fully depends on your wishes and requirements. Here, we describe the approximate estimations based on our experience.

NB: before making a decision, share your thoughts with competent experts and get a quote describing the more accurate web apps price.

Now when you have the full picture of what waits for you, you need to be ready to:

It is essential to work with a reliable engineering team. We have already prepared an article on how to find the best app development partner, and we can give you a hand with all the engineering and development tasks. Just drop us a line and head up to success.

Software development isnt cheap but the development outsourcing is a great way to cut costs for a brilliant product. It is always hard to predict the price for the end product, but you can always read about the costs to build a web application and make a rough estimate for your social network project.

Depending on developments complexity, the website production may take up to several months.

Let's discuss the requirements of your new social network website

You still have a chance to beat Facebook in a global wide web. Give a try and launch a product that will bring you profit and experience.

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The information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to take down any content that refers to an "Indian variant" of the coronavirus, according to a letter issued on Friday which was seen by Reuters.

The World Health Organization said on May 11 that the coronavirus variant B.1.617, first identified in India last year, was being classified as a variant of global concern.

The government a day later issued a statement saying media reports using the term "Indian Variant" were without any basis, saying the WHO had classified the variant as just B.1.617.

In a letter to social media companies on Friday, the IT ministry asked the companies to "remove all the content" that names or implies "Indian variant" of the coronavirus.

"This is completely FALSE. There is no such variant of Covid-19 scientifically cited as such by the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO has not associated the term 'Indian Variant' with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in any of its reports," stated the letter, which is not public.

A senior government source told Reuters the notice was issued to send a message "loud and clear" that such mentions of "Indian variant" spread miscommunication and hurt the country's image.

The IT ministry could not be reached for comment.

Around the world, coronavirus variants have generically been referred to by doctors and health experts on the basis of where the are identified. This includes South Africa and Brazil variants.

A social media executive said it would be difficult to take down all content using the word as there would be hundreds of thousands of such posts, adding that "such a move would lead to keyword based censorship going forward."

The government is facing increased criticism over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state authorities being blamed for not adequately planning for the ongoing second wave of coronavirus infections.

India has the second-highest tally of COVID-19 cases in the world and has been reporting around 250,000 infections and 4,000 deaths daily.

Thomson Reuters 2021

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