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Facebook removes more pages in Philippines for misleading activity

sudshr47 March 29, 2019

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Facebook has continued its crackdown on coordinated misinformation in the Philippines.

The social media giant said on Friday it had taken down more than 200 pages, groups, and accounts in the country, which it said misled others about who they were and what they were doing.

“We’re taking down these Pages and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, said in a statement online.

“In this case, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action.” Read more…

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The small corner of Instagram dedicated to temporary wallpaper is uncommonly magical

sudshr47 March 27, 2019

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This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter.

When I was in middle school I begged my mom to let me redecorate my room. I wanted light blue walls, realistic-looking clouds painted on the ceiling, and adhesive glow-in-the-dark star decals scattered around so that when I went to sleep at night it would feel like I was looking up at the sky.

My design plans were admittedly a bit ambitious —  I only ended up with the blue walls. But I did have a formative conversation with my mom about wallpaper along the way. Read more…

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Twitter took over a user’s account and joked about reading their DMs

sudshr47 March 27, 2019

At a time when tech giants have come under fire for failing to protect the private data of their users, Twitter took over one of its user’s accounts for fun and then tweeted jokes about reading the account’s private messages. The account, to be clear, was willingly volunteered for this prank by social media consultant […]

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A tweet depicting bagels sliced like loaves of bread is causing people to freak out

sudshr47 March 27, 2019

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The conventional wisdom is that bagels should be sliced in half horizontally, then eaten. Even popular bagel practices like toasting and the bagel sandwich are up for debate. This is why so many people on Twitter found the following tweet so disturbing.

Today I introduced my coworkers to the St Louis secret of ordering bagels bread sliced. It was a hit! pic.twitter.com/XNGbljtpYz

— Alek Krautmann (@AlekKrautmann) March 26, 2019

This bagel spread — which appears to be from bagel crime purveyor Panera Bread — is essentially many pieces of bread made of bagel flesh. They still taste good, probably, because they are made of bagel, which is a good substance. Read more…

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Twitter warns users about falling for birthday changing prank

sudshr47 March 27, 2019

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A prank is making the rounds on Twitter, and it’s seemingly locking people out of their accounts.

The trick gets people to change their birthday on the social media platform to 2007, which would purportedly unlock new colour schemes.

Some of the prank posts have thousands of retweets.

damn changing your birth year to 2007 makes your twitter feed all colourful we been missin out

— 44 (@s_rxii) March 25, 2019

Since its cb season I’m going to be nice to antis. to prove my good intentions I’m going to tell you a secret, if you change your twitter age to 2007 you can get a rainbow mode. Fellow armys please be nice & don’t do it or the glitch will be gone, be considerated.

— 𝔇𝔯𝔢𝔞♚⚕ (@buteracypher) March 25, 2019 Read more…

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Finally, a real fashion moment at an Apple event

sudshr47 March 25, 2019

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Apple events are not traditionally hubs for bold style, so thank god for Wyatt Mitchell.

Mitchell, who is the company’s director of app design, stepped onstage at Monday’s Apple event in Cupertino wearing a white workwear-inspired jumpsuit and Off-White x Converse sneakers. In a world of Silicon Valley vests, uniform dressing, and low-key button downs, it was a rare men’s fashion moment — so of course Twitter noticed.

This guys jumpsuit is my #AppleEvent highlight so far pic.twitter.com/Z8bIkEKrJK

— Matt Noble (@noblematt) March 25, 2019

Wyatt in an all white jumpsuit like he just came from a racetrack or is about to fly to the moon #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/j9cBFafwKu

— Adam Al Jabry (@AdamAljabry) March 25, 2019 Read more…

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Hashtag about a world without Twitter is trending… on Twitter

sudshr47 March 23, 2019

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If we’re being honest, tweeting about what the world would be like without Twitter is peak 2019. And, yet, here we are, with #InAWorldWithoutTwitter trending on an early Spring Saturday.

The tweets are a mix of genuine and jokes yet most of them all hold a grain of truth in them and reveal the best and worst of Twitter as a platform.

#InAWorldWithNoTwitter we’d have no covfefe
No hamberders
No smocking guns
No unpresidented
No Scott Free
No wire tapp
No Melanie
No Councel

But we’d still have Tim Applepic.twitter.com/aDz8B4k5Qz

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) March 23, 2019

People would use there, there or they’re incorrectly their entire lives#InAWorldWithNoTwitter

— Jesse Lifson (@DoYouEvenLIf) March 23, 2019 Read more…

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A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data

sudshr47 March 23, 2019

A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password. The app, Family Locator, built by Australia-based software house React Apps, allows families to track each other in real-time, such as spouses or parents wanting to know where […]

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What’s the cost of buying users from Facebook and the other ad networks?

sudshr47 March 23, 2019

This post reveals the cost of acquiring a customer on every ad channel my agency has tested.

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Respondology helps brands and influencers hide toxic comments

sudshr47 March 22, 2019

“Don’t read the comments” is one of those cliches that sticks around because it’s still good advice — maybe the best advice. But the team at Respondology is trying to change that. The company started out by helping brands find and respond to messages on social media. Senior Vice President of Sales Aaron Benor explained […]

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