The management of the microblogging network Twitter has officially announced the change in the action of the limit of 140 characters in messages. According to the blog of the company's senior manager Todd Sherman, tweets will no longer count all media applications - videos, GIFs, photos and other images. Before…
An unknown hacker under the pseudonym Peace put up for sale on an illegal website on the Internet millions of accounts of the social network LinkedIn, which were hacked back in 2012. Then LinkedIn management agreed to pay its users compensation for passwords stolen by hackers as a result of...
Marina Lonina from Ohio was detained after she showed on the social network Periscope the rape of her 17-year-old friend by a young man. Raymond Gates, 29, accused of rape, was also detained. The girl claims that she tried to stop Gates with her broadcast. Periscope is a mobile video streaming application...
This open letter to Donald Trump, written by Brandon Stanton, founder of the Humans of New York group, has become the most popular in the history of Facebook. At the time of writing this note, the letter has collected about 2 million likes and was posted by about 1 million 86 thousand users of the social network. Facebook ...
Russian Alexander Matveev discovered two hidden emoticons on Facebook, denoting emotional reactions. The user posted a video instruction on how to find them on YouTube. He discovered emojis when he opened the source code of one of the Facebook pages in a browser and changed the values of a number of indicators in it. Earlier in ...
Facebook has introduced five alternatives to "like". In addition to "I like", you can now put one of five types of emoji: heart, laughter, tears, indignation or surprise. It looks like this: In the Russian version of Facebook, new emojis are translated as follows: Super! Ha ha! Wow! Sorry. Outrageous. This is for ...
During the keynote presentation, Facebook representatives said the company earns an average of $ 3,73 per user in the world. In the United States and Canada, this figure increased in the fourth quarter to $ 13,54, and in the third quarter, the company earned $ 10,49, respectively. ...
Twitter is stagnating. According to the data for the third quarter of 2015 (information for the whole year will be published only in February), the company has practically stopped recruiting new users (320 million active visitors against 316 million a quarter earlier) and continues to suffer losses despite the growth in revenue. All this was before Jack returned ...
According to a recent University of Michigan study, people who shared their fitness goals on social media on a weekly basis did not exercise any more than those who kept their plans to themselves. Another study of college-age women found that those who compared their appearance to that of numerous ...
Facebook users, be careful: a flag in a post can result in imprisonment. New Yorker Maria Gonzalez faced a similar situation. Earlier, the court banned Maria Gonzalez from contacting Maribel Calderon after the latter divorced Maria's brother Rafael Calderon. The court approved ...