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Twitter Suspends Alt-Right Accounts…And Its CEO
NewsSocial Media November 25, 2016
You gotta love the foibles and missteps that go along with any tech company, but this one is near the top of the list for ironic–and hopefully laughter-inducing–mistakes. Twitter has been on a rampage suspending accounts that now violate its “play nice” rules, and according to TechCrunch, its own... Read more
New 2017 emoji collection to include Dracula, a breast-feeding icon, and a giraffe… A whole new generation of socially liberal and progressive emojis will be added to a digital device near you from March 2017. Unlike how many media commentators and pollsters failed to foresee a Trump victory in... Read more
Body Shaming Playboy Model Charged Over Pensioner Body Shaming On Social Media
NewsSocial Media November 10, 2016
Playboy Model Dani Mathers has been charged by the authorities in Los Angeles with invasion of privacy for taking a photo of an elderly woman changing in a gym locker room and then posting it to social media. The photo, posted to Snapchat included the following derogatory comment about... Read more
Facebook Ad Blocker Blocking Sees Ad Revenue Jump 18%
NewsSocial Media November 4, 2016
Facebook has seen its desktop ad revenue grow by 18% compared to this time last year, and has said that bypassing ad blockers is the root reason for the increase in profits. “On ad blocking, in terms of the impact I would just point out that this quarter we... Read more
The End Of The Vine…
NewsSocial MediaVideo November 2, 2016
Well that’s that then, it’s official, Twitter is Vinally ending its popular video looping app, Vine. It was the Vinest of time, it was the worst of times… Vine, which Twitter, the social media company bought for a guesstimated $30 million in 2012 that plays 6 second loops in... Read more
Russian Linked With LinkedIn Hack Named
NewsSocial Media October 26, 2016
29-year-old man’s arrest linked to 2012 professional social network security breach that saw over 150,000,000 user’s details being stolen. A Russian man has been charged with hacking and stealing information from computers at LinkedIn and other San Francisco Bay Area companies The US attorney’s office in San Francisco has announced that... Read more
Arrest Made In 2012 LinkedIn Breach
NewsSocial Media October 20, 2016
Hacking and data breaches were once “needle in a haystack” crimes, with international efforts to track down and apprehend the culprits typically resulting in little to show for it. With better networking and technology to help with the legwork, law enforcement officials are having more and more success in... Read more
Workplace: Facebook’s New Business Software
NewsSocial Media October 12, 2016
Everything your boss hates about Facebook–namely, employees constantly checking it on their phones while they’re supposed to be at work–just got rolled over into a new productivity package that the social media giant hopes to monetize in a big way. Workplace, Facebook’s subscription-based productivity software, has launched as a... Read more
Germany Says Nein To WhatsApp Data Collection By Facebook
NewsPrivacy and Security September 28, 2016
The National Data Protection Authority in Germany has moved to block the recent privacy changes made by Facebook regarding the collection of data from the recently acquired WhatsApp messenger. German authorities have also ordered Facebook to delete any of the data it has already collected for an estimated 35... Read more
YouTube Offers Reward To Community For Reporting Videos
NewsSocial Media September 26, 2016
YouTube wants heroes! Yes, yes it does. No really, it does… This is the news that YouTube has decided to launch a new way of moderating the public content on the site by encouraging users to sign up and become a YouTube Hero… The announcement may come as something of... Read more
Google’s New Chat App Allo Is Here…But With Less Privacy Than Previously Advertised
NewsSocial Media September 20, 2016
Say Hello to Allo, Google’s answer to WhatsApp, Viber and a host of other similar apps. It was only four months ago that Google announced two new communication apps; Duo for video calling, which launched last month, and Allo which is fresh on the market this week. And... Read more
Facebook Co-Founder Donates $20 million to Clinton Campaign
NewsSocial Media September 12, 2016
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of social media giant, Facebook, has given a ‘number of organisations’ a $20,000,000 boost for the sole purpose of helping Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election. Announcing the multi million dollar contribution in a blog post on Medium, entitled “Compelled To Act“,... Read more
Facebook’s hope that it could relax the privacy policy of WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, without kicking up a fuss, hasn’t worked, and has caused a worldwide backlash. When Facebook bought out WhatsApp for $19 billion back in 2014, the encrypted messaging app’s CEO Jan Koum said,... Read more
Instagram Launches “Stories,” And It’s No Snapchat
NewsSocial Media August 24, 2016
Okay, that headline was mildly misleading. Instagram has launched its very own Stories option (literally, as in, it’s actually called Stories) just like Snapchat, and in almost every way, it works and functions exactly like Snapchat. It’s so much like Snapchat, in fact, that it didn’t bother coming up... Read more
AdBlock Plus has reacted to the news that Facebook is to prevent ad blocking software from working on the desktop version of its social media site by labelling Facebook as ‘anti-user.’ We already published a story here this week about Facebook’s intentions to prevent adblockers from working on PCs... Read more
Facebook has, according to a post on their blog, found a way around installed adblockers on desktop browsers. Quite how the social media giant has managed this hasn’t been totally revealed as of yet, but if the news is correct, then even Facebook users deploying ad-blocking software will begin... Read more
Data Mining Social Media For Science
NewsSocial Media July 21, 2016
What do whale sharks, NASA’s Hubble Telescope, and your vacation videos have in common? Plenty, according to a report by ZDNet’s Jo Best. The author describes in incredible detail the ability to track one of the most elusive (for its massive size) widely-known ocean dwellers, the whale shark. Whale... Read more
The public has spoken, and social media giant Facebook listened…sort of. Serious social media users and comedians alike have long quipped about the need for a different set of reaction points on their fellow users’ posts. After all, clicking “Like” when someone announces they’re going through a hard time... Read more