Herbst, Fasano call for discipline against top Malloy adviser over social media post
GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst joined Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano this week in asking Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to discipline his top justice-reform adviser for criticism of a GOP candidate for attorney general. Herbst took it one step further, calling for Michael P. Lawlor, the adviser in the … Read …
Social Media Is Dying
The term social media has become outdated, and this applies to most other social platforms too, such as Snapchat, which are more focused on ad-revenue than improving interactions within the app. Nothing about Facebook, in its current iteration, is social because the company has an increasing … Read More
Strategies for political marketing on social media
As we know, since the first campaign of Obama, his commitment to social networks is what earned him the pride of being the first president to tweet ( an extreme novelty at the moment that nowadays, and eight years later, it seems to us, obligatory for political campaign). In fact, …
PauseApp forces you to confront how much time you spend on social media
LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – With countless apps available to connect you to your social networks, there's now an app out there to make you realize how much time you're actually spending on those networks. PauseApp launched last month on the Google Play store and developer Daniel Floyd … …
Column: Teens can be damaged by social media judgments
24 column, I wrote about how teens — and adults, for that matter — can feel pressure to compete with and mirror the seemingly perfect lives they see depicted on social media. Let's face it, many people who post photos to Twitter and Facebook attempt to show themselves at their …
Traditional media needs a level playing field to use data like social media firms do, top EU chief says
Andrus Ansip, the EU commissioner in charge of the so-called Digital Single Market, said that all companies should be able to use user data to make money. Ansip said traditional media and telecoms operators should be able to monetize the data they have the same way as social media companies …
What Is Vero, and Why Are So Many People Downloading It?
As of today, and because I can't say no to a hyped-up, new social media platform, I am one of the first million people to sign up for "Vero," which mixes the "authentic social experience" with Esperanto. Meaning "truth" in the language of global humanitarians, Vero wants to be the …
Melania Tells Governors, Not Her Husband, About the Need for ‘Positive Social Media’
At a luncheon, Melania addressed a room full of governors' spouses and called for the need for adults to encourage "positive habits on social media and technology" among their children, going so far as to suggest "even limiting time online." "I am asking you all to join me today and …
Why this social media app is beating Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat in the iOS app store
Why this social media app is beating Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat in the iOS app store. Magdalena Petrova | Darren Weaver … Vero says that's because members of the tattoo and cosplay communities started migrating to Vero from other social media platforms. An Instagram search of "#vero" … Read More
Singer wows Voice judges but social media mob pushes her to quit show
But within days of her stunning performance, Ibtissem underwent pressure from social media communities to withdraw from the show. The problems arose when some of her old Twitter messages from a few years ago resurfaced. In her old tweets, Ibtissem challenged the national framing of the terrorist … Read More