Your New Year’s resolution to get verified on Twitter just got slightly more realistic. Three years after pausing the verification process, Twitter announced Thursday that it’s making good on its November promise to start verifying accounts again. Or, rather, that it will make good on that promise. In a lengthy blog post, the company stated…
If it weren’t for technology, 2020 would truly have been the end of the world. We’ve had plagues before. We’ve had calls for social justice and government reform. We’ve had elections, overthrown tyrants. But we’ve never had it all at once, with a population of over seven billion and endless news and communication at our…
No, Facebook does not do its own original news reporting. Social media is increasingly a primary source of news for U.S. adults. According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, however, almost half of U.S. adults don’t realize that Facebook is merely disseminating news — not reporting it. That’s right, a large portion…
Twitter knows its verification process is a bit of a mess, and the company wants your help fixing it. Twitter officially “paused all general verifications” in November of 2017 after verifying a white supremacist. In a Tuesday blog post, the social media platform announced plans to start verifying accounts again early next year. But before…
On Nov. 17, Twitter ripped off the Stories feature that Snapchat popularized and Instagram popularized even further. Twitter’s version is called Fleets and unfortunately, it didn’t take long for people to find a way to subvert the 24-hour expiration timer. Twitter user donk_enby posted a thread that went viral over the weekend highlighting a bug…
Just days after Twitter premiered Fleets, its version of Stories, the company had to scale back on the roll-out to fix some bugs. But even in that short amount of time, one group in particular took advantage of the new feature: reply guys. While this isn’t wholly surprising, as reply guys have become just another…
Because sometimes getting ratioed isn’t explicit enough. Twitter is currently “exploring” adding a dislike button or some kind of downvoting system, presumably à la Reddit, announced the company’s product lead on Tuesday. The potential change, confirmed Twitter, is part of a larger effort to make Twitter a place amenable to more nuanced conversations. Notably,…
The need for climate justice — which acknowledges that environmental hazards like pollution disproportionately hurt people of color and low-income communities, and fights to correct these injustices — is a pressing concern that isn’t going away anytime soon. Increasingly, politicians are acknowledging that climate justice is integral in the battle against climate change. But long…
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In case you haven’t heard, Joe Biden is now president-elect of the United States. Twitter, which already begun flagging Trump’s tweets on his bunk election claims, now seems to be going full-steam ahead in trolling his account. Shortly before the race was called, Trump claimed that he won the election “by a lot.” In fact,…