Here’s another sign that you’re not really in control of your brand on social media. Imagine you score a great username or handle for your social media account. You tend to it regularly, planting seeds and watching it grow. One day, you have half a million users that subscribe. And then… < poof > It’s
Taking on Facebook Groups and Reddit threads, Twitter has announced Communities. Now in testing, Twitter is adding communities based around content themes. “Imagine an alternative timeline where everyone just gets you…” Twitter posted in making the announcement. Twitter showed examples including: Plant lovers Black women photographers Sneakerheads Crypto Skincare Traveling solo It will take some
With people stuck inside their home, they relied on technology to stay connect more than ever. Businesses had to adapt to this online shift. It resulted in new online habits and the way people used the internet in 2020. A study done by the UK Domain has revealed the top 100 websites for 2020 and
Facebook is publicly ramping up the battle with the Australian government over pending legislation that would force it to pay royalties for use of copyrighted news content. It’s a battle being watched closely in both media and tech circles because the implications go farther than just what’s happening in Australia. The tech giants likely fear
SOURCE: News Release U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), ranking member of the subcommittee, in introducing the Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act, new bipartisan legislation to update Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The PACT Act would
This could change a lot of things. If your website has Facebook’s like button on it for content or comments, you could be liable under the European Union’s privacy rules regardless of where you do business. The EU Court of Justice handed down the ruling this week in a case involving an online retailer. A
If you thought public opinion on the trustworthiness of social media had bottomed up, you might want to rethink that a bit. A new study by Tapatalk polled 1,000 U.S. adults and found that trust in social media networks continues to decline. Get the full report here. 74% said the “integrity of social media sites”