LuciaVon tweeted: “I love that the tweets causing New Hampshire to trend are residents wondering why in the world New Hampshire is trending.” The truth, as it turns out, is a little more straightforward. If you're a Twitter user and you live in New Hampshire, that #newhampshire hashtag in your …

Third-party Twitter clients are often handicapped by the platform by a limit of 100,000 users for new developers and are not able to implement features found in the official client. The latest restriction threatens to impact fundamental features like push notifications and automatic timeline refresh. Read More

Your third-party Twitter apps are safe for now. In a reversal from a statement made in December 2017, Twitter said it will delay its plan to pull support for Twitter apps like Talon, Tweetbot, Tweetings and Twitterrific. The microblogging service would stop these apps' ability to push notifications and update … …

Facebook is looking to self-police by implementing parts of the proposed Honest Ads Act before the government tries to regulate it. To fight fake news and election interference, Facebook will require the admins of popular Facebook Pages and advertisers buying political or “issue” ads on “debated topics … Read More

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight fake news and political misinformation, with new controls intended to ensure authenticity and transparency among advertisers and publishers on the site. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post shortly after the moves were announced: “These steps by themselves … Read More

In 2004 Zuckerberg cofounded Facebook, which rapidly spread from Harvard to other universities. And in 2006 the young company blindsided its users with the launch of News Feed, which collated and presented in one place information that people had previously had to search for piecemeal. Read More

In Gamergate, an argument that started with one person's grievances against a female game developer on the 4chan message boards expanded across social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and many more, and enlisted thousands of people, many of whom had no idea what they … Read More

Separately from its API changes, Facebook announced on Friday new requirements for posting political or issue ads, requiring organizations to verify their identities and location before they will be allowed to post on the platform. Additionally, page admins on large pages will need to be verified by … Read More

With Facebook's admission this week that all users – including Australians – have probably had their personal data exposed, there's been a push to abandon membership. But in a world where "social media" is part of life, can privacy and online sharing co-exist? A data and privacy expert says, … Read …

More broadly, it was agreed that AI solutions have enormous potential to revolutionise customer experience, making interactions easier and more thoughtless – which was considered a good outcome, even if it drives away from “enhanced engagement”, which is commonly identified as a core utility goal. Read More