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Twitter IPO: How $TWTR Artificially Inflated The Share Price And The Social Marketing Bubble
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Even though the Twitter website itself has been blocked on mainland China since 2009, news of Twitters successful IPO was still widely covered by Chinese national media. While Chinas ban on Twitter left room for social media successes like Sina Weibo, Chinas version of the microblogging platform and the countrys most popular social media site, it doesnt mean they dont know it exists.

Still that didnt stop people from making jokes about it online. While chatter on the IPO lit up Twitter itself, people in China took to their Weibo accounts to crack jokes about the multi-billion dollar invisible website.

A website that cant even open is now worth $24 billion? Its a crazy world were living in! one blogger posted, according to the South China Morning Post. Twitter is like a ghost, because youve only heard about it, but no one has ever seen it, another joked.

While there were jokes aplenty, the conversation unsurprisingly turned into a debate on censorship. Another blogger pointed out that the jokes about Twitters non-existence says a lot about Chinas immense censorship power. This is the moment you realize that China is so apart from the rest of the world, one New-York based Weibo blogger wrote. The post, which was commented on over 3,000 times after it was posted, became a point of argument. Considering the average American knows very little about the world outside their country, who is really apart? one blogger wrote in response. We have our own, better version [of the platform], how are we set apart?

The blogger responded that it doesnt matter if Weibo is better, when you are limited of having basic choices. Those who say they dont even like using Twitter are missing the point, the blogger retorted. How can you be glad when you are deprived of the right in the first place?

Even with the inability to tweet, many Chinese netizens addressed the censorship with a dose of laughter. Here are more jokes about Twitters IPO found on Chinese social media:

I am calling the police they are letting a fake website go public.

I am worried about the bubbles in the US stock market -- how come a non-existent website walked away with that kind of money?

Wow, do you think I can also make money selling shares in my blank error page?

On Thursday, the San Francisco-based social media platform saw its stock soar from an IPO price of $26 to $44.90, a 73 percent increase, by the end of its first day on the New York Stock Exchange.

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WASHINGTON -

You may not have heard of a social media site called Ask.fm, but your kids probably have. And it's deadly. Ask.fm is now linked to nine teen suicides in the last year.

The social networking site allows users to post anonymous comments online. Kids as young as 13 years old are allowed on the site, everyone can see all the posts, and no one monitors the content.

"Anyone can say what they want, so people aren't going to be nice most of the time," Max Raykov says.

Robert Siciliano, a McAfee cyber security expert says Ask.fm is the new favorite sparring site for cyberbullies who want to tear people down without showing their face.

"There's no accountability with anonymity and the overall drama that takes place in social media exemplifies teen angst," Siciliano says.

The website BuzzFeed says Ask.fm has been linked to nine teen suicides in the last year.

People like 14-year-old Hannah Smith was found hanged by her sister in August after anonymous bullies on Ask.fm wrote things like: "every1 will be happy if you died. drink bleach. Go die."

"Teen suicides happen every day unfortunately, but the fact that a certain amount of teens were found with this on their phones or devices and their parents are equating to that definitely raises eyebrows," says Siciliano.

"Some of my friends have it and people do post mean things like you have no friends and stuff," 12-year-old Savannah says.

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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. - With past viruses, often called ransomware, a trip to your local computer store and $100 got you back online with your files intact.

But the latest version called a Cryptolocker can permanently destroy every file, picture and email on your personal computer.

The owner of Pinellas Computers Ryan Malize says it's the nastiest virus he's seen. The Cryptolocker not only hijacks your computer and its files, it threatens to destroy them if the user doesn't come up with $300.

But that's not what makes this virus a killer.

It locks down your computer with a random password only the hacker knows. Experts can repair your computer, but may not be able to recover files that are encrypted.

And there are no guarantees that paying the $300 ransom will lead to the restoration of your documents, pictures and anything else in your user folder including emails.

The virus hits your computer through links contained in emails and rogue websites. Here is how you can protect yourself:

1) Install or update antivirus software

2) Schedule backups so if a virus does hit you don't lose everything.

3) Put children and others on limited user or guest accounts, which helps to lock down your computer.

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