If you’ve noticed a change to the way your favourite social media platform works lately, you aren’t alone. Even Kylie Jenner, arguably the most online person in the world, seemed to be getting fed up with it this week when she griped about recent changes to Instagram’s algorithm that prioritizes more short videos from brands and strangers […]
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Yes, Social Media Really Is Undermining Democracy
Within the past 15 years, social media has insinuated itself into American life more deeply than food-delivery apps into our diets and microplastics into our bloodstreams. Look at stories about conflict, and it’s often lurking in the background. Recent articles on the rising dysfunction within progressive organizations point to the role of Twitter, Slack, and […]
Social media ‘gurus’ prey on India’s small retail investors | Business and Economy News
India’s mom-and-pop investors are facing testing times. During a pandemic-era surge in the stock market, millions poured their savings into equities, drawing on advice from unauthorized financial advisers and social media “gurus” to help identify the next big ticket. But a recent slide in stock values has laid bare the dangers of India’s lax capital […]
Teens Increasingly Rely On Social Media For News
Whereas print, TV and radio outlets are still the primary sources of news in older age groups, … [+] Instagram is now the most popular news sources among younger people. TikTok and YouTube follow closely behind. getty This week a report from the BBC likely wasn’t seen by all that many younger “eyeballs” – which […]
Social Media Advertising 101 (+Examples, Costs, Tips & Types)
Social media is one of the pillar channels in digital marketing, but what makes it different from the other pillars, like search engines and email, is that it has so many platforms within it. And not in the Bing vs Google kind of way. Each platform has massive audiences that are ripe for advertising. In […]
Social Platforms Share Insights into Emoji Usage for World Emoji Day
Today is International Emoji Day, and to mark the occasion, Instagram and Twitter have shared some new emoji usage insights, which could help to get you thinking about your emoji use. Because let’s face it, you use emojis. Virtually everyone now uses emoji response in some way, with emoji usage rising every year. Instagram has […]
Donald Trump melts down on Truth Social over Cassidy Hutchinson’s Jan. 6 testimony
Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about the January 6 attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, some new revelation comes along. But this last-minute bombshell testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, is unlike anything we’ve heard before. And the […]
Gen Z’s new favorite social media app
The latest social media app taking Gen Z by storm is BeReal, a photo-sharing platform that seeks to compete with the manufactured influencer culture of Instagram and TikTok. This video shared by BeReal’s official TikTok account explains how to use the app. “[BeReal] sends everyone a notification at a random time every day,” the video’s […]
Blockchain can make social media interoperable
While critics cast doubts on some of blockchain’s use cases during this crypto winter, one of the most prominent community figures has laid out some points that cement blockchain’s position as a disruptive technology. On Twitter, Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of crypto exchange FTX, highlighted use cases for blockchain and explained how some industries could benefit from integrating […]
Police reveal new danger of social media updates
The criminals that killed a city councillor last week while jogging likely tracked him by following his social media updates about the exercise, police have said, citing preliminary findings.The revelation, if confirmed, illuminates the security risk that online activity poses to netizens.James Kakooza was a city division councillor representing Kamwokya parish and unknown assailants waylaid […]