WhatsApp rolls out new ‘group description’ feature for its users
WhatsApp has been laying out new features and updates ever since its inception with Facebook. Many new key features have been added to the real-time messaging platform, i.e. WhatsApp. WhatsApp has been beta testing a new feature that is the group description for almost a month. Now, it is finally … …
‘Dinesh Miandad’: Twitter goes berserk after Karthik’s last-ball six in thrilling final
Dinesh Karthik's 8-ball 29 gave India a thrilling win in the final over of the run-chase in the Nidahas Trophy Tri-series final against Bangladesh in Colombo. Chasing 167, India were off to a good start thanks to Rohit Sharma but a wicket-maiden from Mustafizur Rahman in the 18th over, left …
Twitter could also ruin cryptocurrency ad party with bans
Twitter will most likely use the same reason Google and Facebook used, in that there are a variety of risks surrounding cryptocurrency and they're trying to protect people from scams. I think it should be enforced across all industries, as there are plenty of penis enlarging ads that are obviously …
Snapchat’s UK ad revenue set to overtake Twitter’s next year
Twitter UK will make about £171m in revenues, according to eMarketer, a market research company. The UK currently accounts for about 10% of Snapchat's global ad revenues. By 2020, Snapchat will make about £310m, making it larger than the roughly £300m digital and print ad spend on consumer … Read More
Facebook and the endless string of worst-case scenarios
Facebook has naively put its faith in humanity and repeatedly been abused, exploited, and proven either negligent or complicit. The company routinely ignores or downplays the worst-case scenarios, idealistically building products without the necessary safeguards, and then drags its feet to admit the … Read More
Facebook privacy flaw was flagged with Irish regulator in 2011
A loophole that led to a political data firm using unauthorised information collected from Facebook users in Donald Trump's campaign was raised with an Irish regulator in 2011 but not closed for three years. In his complaint about Facebook to Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner in August 2011, … Read More
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Under Pressure Over Data Breach
The company on Friday said that a professor used Facebook's log-in tools to get people to sign up for what he claimed was a personality-analysis app he had designed for academic purposes. To take the quiz, 270,000 people gave the app permission to access data via Facebook on themselves and … …
Social media’s mental health drain
Over winter break, I decided to worsen my social standing a bit by deleting Instagram off my phone. I'd noticed that opening the app had practically become an addiction; any time I wasn't engaged with a task or person in real life, I would almost automatically open my phone and …
March Madness 2018: UMBC social media holds the savagery after loss
March 19, 2018 12:16am EDT March 19, 2018 12:16am EDT The UMBC Athletics Twitter feed was bodying everyone in its sight after Friday's historic upset of Virginia. After Sunday's loss to Kansas State? Not so much. UMBC-031818-Getty-FTR.jpg UMBC players vs. Kansas State (Getty Images) … Read More
Cyclone Marcus: Territorians use social media to help strangers with food, water, power
In the aftermath of Cyclone Marcus, Territorians have rallied on social media, offering each other free food, boiled water and electricity for those still without. Almost 30,000 homes lost power and 15,000 were still without on Monday, two days after category two Tropical Cyclone Marcus passed over … Read More