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September 12, 2016 10:31 a.m. After All That Complaint, Only 2 Percent of Twitter Users Turned Off the Algorithm By Brian Feldman Share Share Tweet Share Share Email Print Back in February, power users of Twitter were distraught to hear that Twitter would be introducing algorithmic sorting into its feed. Up until then, Twitter had…
Tensions between Facebook and the news industry boiled over this week when the social media corporation censored a Pulitzer-winning Vietnam war photo, because it featured a naked child and violated site “community standards”. The dispute over the “napalm girl” image, which a Norwegian writer published in a post about historic warfare photography, ended Friday when…
Sept. 27, 2016 6:40 p.m. ET Speaking to advertising executives on Tuesday, Facebook Inc. FB 0.01 % executives downplayed controversy over the company’s miscalculation of a video metric and called for ad buyers to focus on metrics tied to business outcomes. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the social network had been overestimating…
We live in an era of increasing automation. Machines help us not only with manual labor but also with intellectual tasks, such as curating the news we read and calculating the best driving directions. But as machines make more decisions for us, it is increasingly important to understand the algorithms that produce their judgments. We’ve…
In presidential debates, there is really only one winner: Twitter. As Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton threw punch after punch during Monday’s first presidential debate, Twitter landed the deciding blows. (Well, Twitter and the fact-checkers.) It was hard to keep up during the most-tweeted debate ever, but we did our best to collect the…
Here at the Daily Dot—and around the web, really—it’s common to refer to “Twitter” as a unified whole. Twitter is freaking out over something. Twitter is roasting someone. Twitter is confused, overjoyed, outraged. But this ignores and even obscures the simple fact that Twitter has long been fractured into myriad cliques and cabals. There are…
This was supposed to be a rant about why it makes no sense for Salesforce to buy Twitter. But like the kids say, life comes at you fast*. So now we’re on to Disney. It’s not insane to imagine that Disney would think about maybe kinda taking a look at Twitter, as Bloomberg is reporting….
Updated Sept. 24, 2016 9:56 a.m. ET IN AN UNMARKED BUILDING on a quiet side street just off the beach in Venice, California, 26-year-old Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel stands in a small conference room. He’s draped a towel over a mysterious object sitting on a table. He is eager to the point of jitters. “You…
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The liberal side of the internet has a serious problem in the form of far too many websites that people mistake for actual news sites that use clickbait headlines and highly distorted articles to feed into the confirmation bias of their intended audience. And it works. Far too many people, including some of you I’m…