Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Twitter user Jeffry van der Goot says he was questioned by police after his Twitter bot made what appeared to be death threats. In a series of tweets first spotted by Fusion, van der Goot explains that his bot, which takes random words from his feed and jumbles them into new tweets, got him in what could…
Today we are announcing some significant changes to our Developer Program. Over the past several years, we’ve seen some exciting applications from our developer community. While many delivered value back to our members and LinkedIn, not all have. As such, we’ve taken steps to refocus the Developer Program from primarily open APIs to partnership integrations…
FILE – In this March 15, 2013, file photo, a Facebook employee walks past a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook is giving more options to decide what happens to users’ accounts after they die. The world’s biggest online social network will now let users pick a trusted contact who can manage…
Believe it or not, there are a lot of fake photos on the internet. And the explosion in the number of spammy Twitter accounts like OldPicsArchive and HistoryInPics help them spread like wildfire. Today we’re taking a look at 10 more fake-ish photos you may have seen in your social media streams recently. They’re all…
According to their latest update, published on their blog on Monday, there was definitely a jump in that number between the first and second halves of last year. “We’ve received ~40% more requests for account information affecting 128% more account holders during the second half of 2014 than in the previous reporting period,” Twitter said….
Kevin Winter/Getty Images Iggy Azalea went after Papa John’s on Twitter on Sunday after a delivery man from the pizza chain passed out the singer’s phone number to his family and friends. Papa John’s sort-of apologized, tweeting this light-hearted response quoting Azalea’s lyrics, and never actually saying the word “sorry.”: Azalea did not find the…
The Facebook Page That Posts the Same Picture Every Day A Facebook page that posts the same picture of an Italian singer every day has become the central part of a research project to understand how we use social media. /.story-img On the Italian language version of Facebook, a curious page came into existence in…
Aram Zucker-Scharff, a content strategist with CFO Publishing, has a new piece about the results of a casual independent experiment he conducted on Facebook’s News Feed. His experiment — which he himself calls “not-so-scientific” — only lasted two weeks, and, as he notes, the analytics data he’s working with is less than perfectly accurate. But it might still…
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is taking personal responsibility for his platform’s chronic problems with harassment and abuse, telling employees that he is embarrassed for the company’s failures and would soon be taking stronger action to eliminate trolls. He said problems with trolls are driving away the company’s users. “We suck at dealing with abuse and…
If you came to this post from my Facebook you’ve been participating in a little not-so-scientific experiment on my behalf. For most of the month of January almost all of my Facebook shares have passed through a new site I set up with WordPress and PressForward. On Chronoto.pe I archive a copy of everything I’ve read…