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Twitter CEO Under Pressure to Resign Over Bot Scandal
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is under mounting pressure to step down for misleading potential investors about the amount of human users on the social media website. A recent study by the University of Southern California and the University of Indiana has revealed that up to 15% of Twitter accounts are…
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Facebook is Buying Data on Your Offline Activity
While most Facebook users are aware that the social network is tracking your interests and activities while using the site – you can even see what Facebook knows about you through its settings – you may not know that it is collecting data on your offline life, and it’s not…
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Facebook Blocks Fake News Detector
While Facebook has promised to tackle its fake news problem, partially blamed for Donald Trump’s victorious Presidential election, it has fallen to third parties to properly deal with the issue. One such method of curating fake news on Facebook is web browser extension B.S. Detector, which fact-checks each story posted…
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Victim Exposes the Ease of Hacking a Facebook Profile
A reddit user has detailed how someone hacked his Facebook profile and business pages by sending a picture of a fake ID with his name to Facebook support and demanding that they turn off login approvals, a request to which support duly obliged. User SquidWhale revealed on reddit that person responsible…
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Former Top Gear Stars Create “DriveTribe” Community
When it comes to cars, most people know of the show Top Gear. Its cast of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May traveled the length and breadth of the UK and even the world with cars powering their journeys in everything from races against planes and trains to mini-cooper football.…
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Facebook Messenger Introduces Dropbox and Video Chat Heads
Facebook Messenger is a system built to help communicate through the popular social network, but the latest features look to bring it closer to email with Facebook Messenger introducing dropbox features and even adding a chat head imagine to your video calls. The dropbox features allow you to add in…
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Twitter Users Hit by State-Sponsored Attackers
On Friday, a number of Twitter users received a notification from the social networking platform, explaining that their accounts had been the target of state-sponsored actors. Unsurprisingly, the supposed targets of these attacks were mass surveillance researchers and security professionals. The incident was surprising for users of Twitter, as until…
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Scientists Claim the Internet Isn’t Rotting Kid’s Brains
Just like TV and video games, the internet does not “rot kid’s brains”, scientists have decided. Or, at least, there’s in no evidence that using the internet has any detrimental effect on the development of a child’s brain, according to a new editorial in the British Medical Journal. The article,…
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Facebook Collects All Text Typed Into it, Whether Posted or Not
It’s no secret that Facebook is greedy for your data – it’ll take anything you offer up and sell it on to advertisers – but it has been revealed that the social networking site collects all text that is typed into it, from status updates to private messages, whether the…
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Twitter Plans to Sell Your Tweets
Twitter’s Data Strategy Chief Chris Moody has revealed that the social network is planning to sell trillions of tweets to data miners to facilitate targeted marketing. According to Moody, tweet data could be used for a myriad of different purposes, both commercial and social, from targeting new parents with baby…
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Twitter Begs Power Users to Stop Using Instagram
Twitter has been messaging high-profile users, imploring them to tweet photos directly, rather than links to Instagram. The message includes an image comparison, showing the difference between a Twitter photo and an Instagram link (above). After Instagram was purchased by Facebook in 2012, Twitter stopped supporting Twitter Card integration for…
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Only 9% of Google+ Profiles Active
In the least surprising news ever, it has been revealed that no one is using the Google+. Kevin Anderson, an analytics blogger, has charted Google+’s usage statistics and, though 2.2 billion people have accounts with the social network, only 9% of users have ever posted on it. Anderson’s data comes…
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Instagram is Now Worth $35 Billion
As well as having more users, Instagram is now worth more than Twitter at $35 Billion. Citigroup raised the app’s valuation from $19 billion to $35 billion. The image centric social networking service was purchased by Facebook in April 2012 for a now rather cheap $1 Billion. Instagram has grown…
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Instagram Passes Twitter, Now Has Over 300 Million Monthly Active Users
Instagram is continuing to grow, with the Facebook-owned image-sharing site now boasting over 300 million monthly active users. This number has swollen considerably from March this year, a number that is up over 100 million in that time. Instagram now has more monthly active users than Twitter, which is sitting…
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Glose: The Ebook Reader for Social Networkers
Have you ever wanted to turn your love of books into a social experience? Now you can with Glose, the new ebook reader and store. Glose allows users to discuss quotes and segments from their ebooks with friends and other users, make and share notes and annotations, and compare reviews…
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