Is your LinkedIn profile in need of some spring cleaning?
Your headshot is important seeing as it follows you all over LinkedIn, and is one of the first things a visitor sees. So, take a look at your headshot photo and decide whether it needs updating. If the photo was taken 10 years ago when you were a baby-faced graduate …
New planned LinkedIn payments have recruiters over a barrel
Recruiter has seen an email sent to recruitment marketer Robert Woodford, founding director and marketing consultant at The Marketing Consultant, from LinkedIn senior vice president Mike Gamson. The email states that from 1 June 2018 customers who spend less or equal to $25k (£17.4k) on … Read More
JD Wetherspoon is mysteriously killing the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts of its 900 …
Unlike Playboy – which used the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal as an opportunity to make a big statement by publically leaving Facebook, while conveniently forgetting about Facebook-owned Instagram – Wetherspoons is making a clean break, killing Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts for … Read More
Meet Alamelu, the Instagram-famous artist who can draw with both hands simultaneously
It is quite easy to lose track of time while scrolling through Alamelu Annhamalai's Instagram profile. There's a riot of colours, some monochrome line drawings and time-lapse videos with great music. The 24-year-old artist has her way with brushes, colours, and pens, and works with almost all kinds of … Read …
adidas, Reebok Crack Down on Counterfeit Sellers on Instagram
Adidas and Reebok are taking on the ever-growing number of fakes. But, instead of filing a lawsuit that merely names the (often unknown) operators of specific counterfeit-selling domains as defendants as is customary in such suits, the sportswear giants are going after Instagram sellers, and in doing so, … Read More
Pioneering work allows drug dealer to be convicted from WhatsApp photo of ecstasy tablets in his …
The dealer sent a stream of WhatsApp messages offering drugs for sale, one of which showed a number of ecstasy pills in the palm of his hand, reports the BBC. An officer who recovered a phone noticed that the middle and bottom of a finger was shown, potentially allowing a …
How to recover deleted Whatsapp photos and videos; you can really take charge of your content
WhatsApp beta users might have noticed a bug affecting the timestamp of chats on the app on version 2.18.109. Users should know that the first characters in the timestamp 'Yesterday' 'Today' are being replaced by their ASCII equivalent like '89esterday' and '84oday'. The operability of the app was not … Read …
WhatsApp says Payments is secure, transaction details not shared with Facebook
In a recent US Congressional hearing, its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologised for sharing details of users with data consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Following this, questions were raised on the security features of WhatsApp, a cross-messaging platform, which was acquired by Facebook … Read More
China’s Twitter equivalent Sina Weibo reverses gay content censorship
China's Twitter-equivalent Weibo said on Friday it would remove pornographic, violent or gay videos and cartoons in a three-month campaign, singling out a genre of manga animations and comics that often depict raunchy gay male relationships. In response, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual … Read More
Wetherspoon on Twitter: The best bits
Popular pub chain JD Wetherspoon has announced its head office and 900 pubs are quitting Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, with immediate effect. The home of bargain pitchers and Curry Club Thursdays linked the move to bad publicity surrounding social media including the "trolling" of MPs and … Read More