Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Design Your Brand for Instagram — and What to Do Instead
Yet, as the creative director of design studio Weekday Studio I get emails from clients all the time stating, "I want to be the next big brand on Instagram." And while the most recent stats show that there are more than 800 million monthly active users on the platform, Instagram …
Kourtney Kardashian & Younes Bendjima Are Together Again After Instagram Drama!
Kourtney, 38, posted about her grocery store trip with Younes, 24, on her Instagram Story last night, showing the pair doing some shopping together. Earlier this week, Cosmopolitan reports that Kourtney shut down her Instagram account, while Younes made his private. They also had unfollowed each … Read More
“I did it and I have done it and I shouldn’t have done it” – Stuart Olding addresses WhatsApp …
Ulster and Ireland rugby player Stuart Olding said on Thursday he was "embarrassed" about messages he posted in a WhatsApp group, saying it was "immature boasting" to friends. Olding, from Ardenlee Street in Belfast, has denied forcing a woman to perform oral sex on him in the bedroom of his … …
Whatsapp Set to Disrupt Digital Payments Market in India, Says Globaldata
Facebook-owned messaging company WhatsApp has recently launched peer-to-peer digital payments beta service in India. The entry of the messaging app, which has more than 200 million monthly active users, is expected to disrupt the unified payments interface (UPI)-based digital payments … Read More
Whatsapp payments service will converge with industry: HDFC Bank official
Launch of new services like payments over whatsapp may have resulted in regulatory arbitrage, but it will eventually converge with the rest of the industry, a senior HDFC Bank official said on Thursday. "There will be some arbitrage which is there from a regulatory or some of those (perspective), which …
The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
The massive new study analyzes every contested news story in English across the span of Twitter's existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3.5 million English-speaking users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, … Read More
On Twitter, the lure of fake news is stronger than the truth
To study rumormongering trends on Twitter, researchers examined about 126,000 tweet cascades — families of tweets composed of one original tweet and all the retweets born of that original post. All of those cascades centered on one of about 2,400 news stories that had been verified or debunked by … Read …
Fake news spreads faster than true news on Twitter—thanks to people, not bots
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the internet was abuzz with discussion when reports surfaced that Floyd Mayweather wore a hijab to a Donald Trump rally, daring people to fight him. The concocted story started on a sports comedy website, but it quickly spread on social media—and people … Read More
Labour suspends party members in ‘antisemitic’ Facebook group
Labour has suspended several party members who posted in a closed Facebook group which featured a number of antisemitic messages. The party's compliance unit is working through a dossier on the group, of which Jeremy Corbyn was once a member, that was compiled by a campaigner. Some of … Read More
Here’s how Amazon could shake up the Google-Facebook ad duopoly
One of the reasons digital media is such a hard business right now is because two companies–Google and Facebook–control over 60% of the advertising spend. But it's anyone's guess how long their dominance will last. As Facebook sees users spending less time on the platform–and marketers get … Read More