Twitter, one of the most active social media platforms, has been working on a new, decentralised social network, (called Bluesky) for a couple of years now, and earlier this month, Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, told investors why he thought that this feature would be of crucial importance for the future of social media. He said that […]
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Twitter made two recent announcements about changes to the platform, one of which was the launch of their new “Fleets” messaging, which allows users to send a series of short messages (text, images or video clips) that disappear after 24 hours. Fleets? Fleets give Twitter users a way of posting an Instagram Stories-like series of […]
3 months after a major advertiser boycott which led to massive brands such as Coca-Cola, The Hershey Co., Unilever, Verizon, Honda, Birchbox, Ben & Jerry’s, The North Face, REI, and Patagonia among other groups withdrawing their advertising from Facebook in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody, the World Federation of […]
With increasing concerns about the proliferation of false or misleading information on social media, Twitter appears to be planning a way for users to provide feedback by labelling tweets from politicians and other public figures as being likely to be “harmfully misleading.” A leaked demo, (later confirmed by Twitter) showed brightly coloured labels prominently displayed […]
Under pressure for some time already to combat the growing problems of bullying and harassment on Facebook, the platform has announced that they will begin to allow users to block comments from their posts by selecting keywords which they don’t want to see. Instagram and Twitter have both offered keyword blocking since 2016, in response […]
So-called fake news has been one of the hottest topics for the last year, and platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have working on addressing threats posed by disinformation. At Facebook’s developer conference earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg said that the platform would “never be unprepared again” for things like the interference of Russian trolls […]
Hot on the heels of Facebooks reported slow-down of growth for Q2, Twitter followed suit by reporting not just that growth had slowed, but that they actually lost 1 million active users. That said, it appears that the decline has been mainly due to their efforts in reducing spam and general misuse of the platform, […]
Social media comes with many privileges, and just like any other medium, these privileges come with responsibilities. Finding the balance between freedom of expression and social responsibility can be hard, particularly, from an individual perspective. The rules of engagement are somewhat different for individuals compared to businesses. Many businesses enlist the assistance of marketers to […]
The Twitter character limit has always been a thing. Except in countries where the written word makes use of an alphabet where characters can convey more meaning than mere letters can, like Japan, China & Korea. People have been lamenting the character limit (designed with the old SMS character limit in mind) for almost as […]
If you’ve been following along, Twitter has been experiencing the corporate version of existential angst for quite some time already. After the heady days of it’s IPO of $26 a share, valuing the company at $14.2 billion, they’ve continually failed to monetise the platform successfully. Since 2013 shares have generally declined, and are currently available […]