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"Ticket machines can present bewildering jargon, a barrage of information and choices, as well as incomplete information about ticket restrictions," added Mr Smith.

Inevitably, with valuable information comes deceptive mis-information and programme makers have to make difficult decisions about how to harness social networks.

"On Twitter you see people tweeting on various protests that have happened," Dr Azi Khatiri, an interactive producer for the BBC's Persian TV service, said. "But, as a news organisation we have to make sure what we report is accurate and correct.

Floppies are still used for emergency boots in aging systems which lack support for other bootable media. They can also be used for BIOS updates since most BIOS and firmware programs can still be executed from bootable floppy disks. Furthermore, if a BIOS update fails or becomes corrupted somehow, floppy drives can be used to perform a recovery. The music and theatre industries still use equipment (i.e. synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, sequencers, and lighting consoles) that requires standard floppy disks as a storage medium.

40 ways we still use floppy disks

In the aviation industry they are still used to update firmware on ticket printers.Dre, Germany

I work for a national high-street based business. We still use floppies in many sites for back-ups. Believe it or not we are still running MS-DOS on most of our till systems. We get through hundreds if not into the thousands each year.