Twitter wants to make itself a nicer place by establishing a Twitter Trust and Safety Council. It’s part of their strategy to ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter. (more…)
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Snowden Gets Swamped With Twitter Notifications
Most of the social networks and online services send notifications. While some only send you “push notifications” via their mobile app, a lot of them also send you emails notifications for a wide range of things. And over time Twitter seems to have cranked up the volume of notices it sends out.. If you forget […]
YouTube Finally Fixes Video View Counts
YouTube announced earlier today that they’re finally going to fix video view counts. If you watch videos that are being shared widely across social networks up until today the counter always seemed to be stuck. YouTube would default to displaying “301+” on videos which were getting a lot of traffic. Why? Because a lot of […]
Social Messaging Apps Thriving, Latest Irish Survey Shows
Yesterday we published the Ipsos MRBI’s infographic of their latest Social Networking Quarterly Survey of Ireland. They also published the Social Messaging Quarterly Survey, with similarly interesting results. Of 1000 people aged 15 and over, 50% have a Skype account; yet only 7% of them use it daily. Viber, Whatsapp and Snapchat have all shown steady growth over the past […]