Social Media Top 5: Safety vs Moments, Tsu(me), Trolling for Dullards
Doug Haslam Facebook Safety Check Gets it Right: Twitter Moments Might Have Gotten it Right But Who Would Know? As the story of the horrific terror attacks in Paris unfolded over the…
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Social Media Top 5: Twitter Has Heart; Spotify Not So Evil? LinkedIn Mod Changes
Twitter? Hearts? Have you no…um, Heart? People like to accuse Twitter of having “Facebook Envy,” adding features to its idiotically simple core service (some better than others). Now that Twitter…
Social Media Top 5: Yelp Abuse, Grantland’s Tomb, Snapchat Owns You, and More…
Fighting Fraud with Fraud. And Threats. and Stupidity. It looks like a restaurateur got fed up with some entitled vegans (no, not all vegans act that way , don’t assume…
Social Media Top 5: Twitter Loves Developers Again, YouTube Red, & Blame it on Content Shock
Twitter Developments Once upon a time, Twitter closed its legs on third-party developers. I thought that made sense in terms of controlling how people accessed Twitter – and could see…
Social Media Top 5: Dude Says Twitter’s Dead Because of Online Abuse – Let’s Get Him!
Is Abuse Killing Twitter or Should People Who Say So Shut Their Filthy Pieholes? Of all the reasons one could give for an eventual downfall of Twitter as a business,…
Social Media Top 5: Overvaluing Trump Tweets; Twitter Moments; Prejudging Snip.ly & Justine
Trump Tweets as Valuable as Media Coverage? I am legitimately impressed that presidential candidate Donald Trump composes his own Tweets. I am also legitimately concerned for the sanity of his…
Social Media Top 5: Yelp If I’m Bothering You Peeple
Yelp if I’m Bothering You I am trying to be positive and find a reason this new app “Peeple” should exist. After all, I’m hardly the only person writing about…
Social Media Top 5: Check Out My Peanutize
Peanutize Here we go: another popular TV show or movie, another chance to change your social media profile pictures in the style of the characters. The latest is to promote…
2,500 Words on Long-Form Content
I have been thinking a lot about long-form online content lately. Trends indicate that longer-form content is becoming more popular, a relief to people who want to be taken seriously,…
Social Media Top 5: DisLike-sia and Other Facebook Stuff
Dislike-sia Is Facebook finally implementing the long-discussed Dislike Button? Of course not. It’s a silly idea that makes no sense, not to mention that Facebook has long said it wouldn’t…