Latest and Breaking Social Media News and Top Stories - July 4
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Often defying parents’ rules, many teenagers spend the wee hours using social media with friends.
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On social media, people proudly trumpet their ethical outrage toward anyone or anything that has rubbed them the wrong way.
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American Apparel has apologized after posting a photo of the space shuttle Challenger disaster on its Tumblr account, mistaking it for an image of fireworks. The Challenger exploded just 73 seconds into its flight on Jan. 28, 1986, killi...
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Hackers posted a bogus announcement of a rocket strike against Israel's Dimona reactor and a possible nuclear leak on a Twitter account used by the Israeli military, which said on Friday it was combating such cyber attacks. The English-l...
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Facebook’s decision to be transparent about a recent “experiment” it conducted on some 700,000 users has pundits ranting, law-makers pontificating and some Facebook execs apologizing. But why? It happens all the time.
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The Fourth of July is here, America. Friday is the day we commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, by pigging out on hamburgers and hot dogs , blasting "Born in the USA" until our ears bleed, and attem...
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Remember View-Master, the stereoscopic image viewer? Now you can have your Instagram photos turned into View-Master reels, thanks to Reelagram. The service also lets you create gifts for other Instagrammers. The post Turn your Instagram ...
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The scientific journal that published a controversial Facebook experiment on mood manipulation said Thursday it was concerned that the company did not follow scientific ethics and principles of informed consent. While it stopped short of...
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Heading to the beach this summer? Elliott has you covered with these must-know DIY beach tricks . And on Thursday, Elliott was looking at the top vacation spots on Earth. Yeah, the entire Earth Read more... More about Social Media , Yout...
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Do you want to know more about your customers and prospects so you can serve them better? Are you wondering what social CRM is and how your business can benefit from it? To learn how social CRM can help marketers, I interview Kyle Lacy f...
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Twitter is a hive of vibrant activity, constantly buzzing with conversation, opinions, discussion, witticisms, and insults – except when a World Cup penalty shootout takes place. That's when things go very quiet indeed.... The post Twitt...
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Internet hackers briefly took over an Israeli army Twitter account, the military said Friday, posting an alarming message that a nuclear facility had been hit by rocket fire. "#WARNING: Possible nuclear leak in the region after 2 ro...
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Walmart has sought to revolutionize the in-store experience by adding navigation, voice commands, shopping lists, price comparisons, and other useful tools to its mobile applications. At next week’s MobileBeat — July 8-9 in San Fra...
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How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! Facebook has announc...
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Burger King is enjoying an avalanche of social media chatter following its “ Proud Whopper ” campaign, which celebrated gay pride in San Francisco last week through rainbow packaging and the warm and fuzzy slogan, “We are all the same in...
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DALLAS (AP) — Facebook has deleted some big game trophy photos posted by a Texas Tech cheerleader, saying they violated its standards.
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It's not yet clear if Facebook broke any laws when it manipulated the news feed content of nearly 700,000 users without their explicit consent to test whether social networks can produce "emotional contagion." While it is generally known...
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Mashable community members gathered on June 30 to celebrate the fifth annual Social Media Day . At guest panels and happy hours the world over, we came together to connect and discuss the huge role social media plays in our daily lives N...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The scientific journal that published a study by Facebook and two U.S. universities examining people's online mood swings regrets how the social experiment was handled.
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A scientific journal that recently published a controversial study about how emotions can spread across social networks issued a note today (July 3) to address the uproar caused by the contentious research. The study, published June 17 i...
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Even an official apology from Sheryl Sandberg wasn't enough to calm critics of Facebook's now infamous psychological research study -- the one that secretly manipulated the News Feeds of nearly 700,000 users to see how it would affect th...
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After this week's murder of an east Jerusalem Palestinian, calls to inflict violent revenge on Arabs over the killings of three Israeli teenagers have gathered momentum on social media websites. Such incitement, including by serving...
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Facebook's social experiment on 700,000 unsuspecting users constitutes a deceptive and unfair practice, the Electronic Privacy Information Center says in a complaint filed on Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission. The privacy watchd...
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A controversial Facebook experiment on mood manipulation "messed with people's minds," privacy activists said in a formal complaint to US regulators Thursday, seeking an urgent investigation. In its complaint to the US Fed...
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The moment of anticipation between when the World Cup referee blows the whistle and when the player takes his shot is one of those rare times in sports when just about everyone is holding their breath. And, as it turns out on Twitter, ho...
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This week, Zoosk is hiring a marketing manager for the Australia and international markets, as well as a marketing manager for the Scandinavia market. Meanwhile, University of California-San Francisco is seeking a social media manager , ...
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How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! The stakes are high ...
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Running a startup or small business today typically entails monumental workloads, so we forgive companies that forget to tweet at their followers every day. But Audrey Melnik won't, because her service makes it stupidly easy.
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Did you miss on on Facebook’s controversial 2012 mood experiment that altered the makeup of your news feed, hoping to make you really, really sad? Of course you did – as far as you know. You’re never going to know …
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center said Facebook violated a consent decree with regulators by manipulating some of its users’ news feeds without their explicit consent.
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Jack Jia is a self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur and DYI-er. He has spent years building content management and discovery tools, as well as building things in his home and garden. “I literally have a black notebook where I’ve written do...
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A recent spate of workforce diversity reports from Google, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn revealed what everybody already kind of knew: The makeup of the tech industry is thoroughly out of whack with the demographics of the Bay Area, the n...
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Another Facebooker has spoken publicly about the controversial emotion experiment the company conducted without user consent in 2012. The company’s global policy management head, Monkia Bickert, spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival, a...
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Facebook quietly (and finally) released its Messenger application for the iPad . (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .
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Our seventh annual MobileBeat event is just around the corner on July 8-9 in San Francisco, and we’ve got a limited number of tickets left for what we believe is the must-attend mobile event of the year. We’re thrilled to announce ...
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Former member of data science team says researchers conducted tests with little oversight in wake of revelations about company's human emotion experiments
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As is so often the case with the Social Media Insider, the decision of what to write about this week was a toss-up. Should I focus on Facebook's mind-control experiments (insert still from "Clockwork Orange" here), or the continuing turm...
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As is so often the case with the Social Media Insider, the decision of what to write about this week was a toss-up. Should I focus on Facebook's mind-control experiments (insert still from "Clockwork Orange" here), or the continuing turm...
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The "poke" is one of Facebook 's most-cryptic features, but for Steve Kawalit and Nafis Joon, a simple poke seven years ago was the catalyst for their recent engagement It's a love story for the social media generation: He pushes the pok...
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Interaction with content from media companies on Facebook rose 23 percent between January and April, according to a study of more than 1.74 billion engagements with some 250,000 stories that were shared on the social network, conducted ...
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Ingin menyederhanakan pengalaman penggunaan Facebook anda? Hootsuite dapat membantu anda. Berjalannya dengan bertambahnya penggunaan jaringan sosial Ada dan mulai enangani beberapa akun dan halaman, banyak hal akan menjadi... Read More T...
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Sheryl Sandberg fails to realise that what she simply considers Facebook's "poor communication" about its psychological experiments ( Facebook apologises for experiments on users , 2 July) was an ethical violation of ...
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Social has long seemed a natural fit for marketing. Still, in many cases, social media sits outside of the marketing department, while studies indicate that deeper integration makes social media teams more useful. Joshua March, co-founde...
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A new survey from Adroit Digital suggests that YouTube is now more popular than live TV Out of 2,000 people surveyed (U.S. respondents over 18 who own a television, smartphone and personal computer), 68% of viewers said they consume vide...
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Facebook has not been delivering accurate reach and engagement metrics to Page admins. Some admins have been getting a message on their dashboard that says, “There is a discrepancy in the engagement and reach metrics for all Page P...
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A few weeks ago, a "breaking news" update dropped into my inbox and as usual I scrambled to click the link. The news? Well apparently Jay Z and Beyoncé's On The Run tour isn't struggling. If there was a thought bubble above my head it wo...
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You know those people who follow everyone they can on Twitter, solely in the hope that these other users will reciprocate, all so they can amass the biggest number of followers who know nothing about them, in a totally meaningless act of...
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Facebook finally created an iPad app for Messenger. The social network will now push users of its main iPad app directly to the chat app when they tap on the Messenger icon. The post Facebook Messenger is finally optimized for iPad appea...
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DECCAN HERALD - July 2 - With ~100M users and 900K small and medium businesses in India, Facebook is in the process of monetising in India. India is Facebook's second largest market, after the US. Facebook wants to "enable commerce"...
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Facebook data scientists recently conducted a study testing the impact of negative or positive post biasing in the news feed . They were hoping to find out if a user’s mood could be impacted by the weighting different content. But the ai...
