Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Instagram gets multiple image posts Paid Members Public
As trailed a while back, Instagram has now added the ability to upload multiple images or videos [http://blog.instagram.com/post/157572774352/170222-multiple] to a single post: It’s an interesting move, as it shifts the service even further from her it started. In the beginning it was an
WikiLeaks Task Force doxing concerns: is Twitter verification making you a target? Paid Members Public
Remember when I was amused by Twitter deciding that I’m not a journalist [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/11/journalism-social-media-arbitration.html] or in the media? Well, now I’m profoundly glad. Why? Well, this little Tweet from a WikiLeaks-affiliated group went out on Friday: Of course, many, many
Trump's tweets, analysed Paid Members Public
This is a fascinating analysis of the way Donald Trump uses Twitter: The key message? Trump seems to instinctively understand what so many miss: you talk on social media, not write.[via Daring Fireball [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/03/nerdwriter-trump-tweets]]
Fake news is just the tip of the propaganda iceberg Paid Members Public
Fake news is Facebook’s problem, right? Well, maybe it’s a touch bigger than that. Maybe Google has the problem, too [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook] : > Are Jews evil? It’s not a question I’ve ever thought of asking. I hadn’t gone
The Alt Right media embraced social media with a passion few others can match Paid Members Public
John Herrman on the social media power and savvy of the alt-right media [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/business/media/online-everything-is-alternative-media.html] , in a piece for the New York Times: > The pro-Trump media understood that it was an insurgent force in a conversation conducted on social media
You're only a journalist if Twitter and Facebook say so. Paid Members Public
The social media platforms decide if we are journalists or not. How… odd.
What Twitter needs Paid Members Public
Nobody wants to buy Twitter. It made it obvious it was up for sale – but one by one the buys dropped out. The reasons seem numerous – the trolling problem for one [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/disney-said-to-have-dropped-twitter-pursuit-partly-over-image] . But, at its core, the reluctance seems to be based around
Social media is becoming just plain old media - and that's a loss Paid Members Public
What has killed social media? Vanity [http://www.elsua.net/2016/09/15/vanity-killed-the-social-media-star/]: > At some point in the not so distant past, we knowledge (Web) workers decided to, collectively, kill one of the most profound and deep reaching components from all of these social networking tools out there:
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