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Facebook is opening up its Instant Articles program to all publishers starting on April 12, less than a year after launching the experiment with a handful of large media outlets. Now anyone with a website and a Facebook page anywhere in the world will be able to take advantage of the program, which lets publishers…
When Pizza reached 100,000 followers on Tumblr, she posted a picture of a pizza box, takeout chicken wings, and an orange soda spread out on her bed: “pizza and chicken wings 2 celebrate.” One fan replied, “CONGRATULATIONS GIRL! YOU DESERVE IT!” Another: “MOTHER OF GOD 100K?!?!” An anonymous user was unimpressed: “you only have 100k…
Feb. 11, 2016 2:22 p.m. ET It’s getting easier to make money from Facebook FB 0.34 % Instant Articles, according to multiple publishing partners enrolled in the program. Publishers were frustrated in the early going by the platform’s advertising restrictions, but now credit Facebook with making improvements. Some say their Instant Articles currently generate the…
Amid corporate turmoil and an uncertain future, Twitter is taking another step to protect its users from harassment, the latest in its series of attempts to balance free speech and personal safety. On Tuesday the company announced in a blog post that it had created the Twitter Trust and Safety Council, with which it will consult…
The parody account @TrustySupport is a bitter but hilarious send-up of Twitter’s track record on harassment (spoiler: they are not very good with harassment). Its tweets deride the company for a perceived insensitivity to users by issuing satirical messages in a spot-on social-media-PR voice, replete with emojis. On Wednesday, the account was suspended for at…
Screencap: Twitter In a remarkable meta-commentary on Twitter’s Report Abuse system, the parody account @TrustySupport, which mocks Twitter for failing to suspend harassing accounts, was, uh, suspended. So what happened here? @TrustySupport’s account was unsuspended after a few hours, leading me to speculate at the time that it had been a mistake. But after…
Messaging app Line has been having a growth spurt. Carla Zanoni, executive emerging media editor at The Wall Street Journal, claims it has been the Journal’s fastest-growing social channel, reaching over 2 million followers since it launched on the Japanese app 15 months ago. “I’m not seeing that kind of growth anywhere else, period,” she told…
In January, following a year of stalled growth and financial disappointment, Twitter shed nearly half of its core leadership. Three days later, Adam Bain, the company’s (surviving!) Chief Operating Officer, posted this complaint: “Code for Twitter” https://t.co/pZdbJNx67J — adam bain (@adambain) January 28, 2016 The linked tweet: Wherein Facebook editorializes the Kanye Wiz ordeal as…
Nan Palmero/FlickrLinkedIn’s stock had its worst day ever. Shares cratered by as much as 44% in trading on Friday after the company reported a quarterly loss on Thursday, with guidance that was weaker than expected. It was the worst decline ever for the stock and has erased about $10 billion of the company’s value. The social…
Facebook is one of the most downloaded apps on iOS but it has long been cited as a cause of fast-draining iPhone batteries. Last year it was accused of using background tricks to stay active even when it wasn’t being used. Facebook admitted bugs existed, and fixed them, but questions of the app’s impact on…