Since acquiring the company now known as X, Elon Musk has claimed that his social media platform would be one where free speech ideals reigned supreme. In August 2023, Musk went so far as declaring that he would financially support any user who was punished for their speech on X. “If you were unfairly treated…
I don’t see ranking factors anymore. All I see is user satisfaction. A series of tweets from Danny Sullivan, search liaison at Google, about doing things for Google vs. users set the SEO scene on fire. The main point: Focus on users, not Google. Screenshot from X (Twitter), March 2024 (Image Credit: Kevin Indig) Every…
Florida has just enacted a new law restricting social media access for children. Those aged 15 and under must now obtain their parents’ consent to have a social media account, while children under 14 aren’t allowed to have one at all. That’s no more TikTok, no more Snapchat, no more Facebook, and no more Instagram.…
Elon Musk and his social media platform X just suffered an embarrassing defeat in court, where a judge pilloried the “free speech” company for attempting to silence a critic’s speech. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer dismissed X’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit group that tracks hate speech…
Scraping data from webpages is a relatively advanced task that, until recently, required a degree of technical skill. The idea of diving into code or scripts for data extraction seemed overwhelming for many, myself included. Data scraping can power many SEO tasks, such as auditing, competitor analysis, and examining website and data structure. Google sheets…
By now, you’ve likely heard of Dogecoin, the popular cryptocurrency named after the popular “doge” internet meme. During the last cryptocurrency boom, buoyed by the few successful examples like Dogecoin and the similarly-inspired Shiba Inu coin, memecoins became pretty popular among get-rich-quick scammers looking to make fast money with quick pump-and-dump schemes. The memecoin craze…
When Elon Musk acquired X, then-known as Twitter, he proudly proclaimed that his social media platform would be a place where freedom of speech reigned. According to Musk, only content deemed illegal by government law would be removed. All other speech – including hate speech – would be fair game to publish on X. With…
Threads has been steadily rolling out new features and updates since its launch last summer. The latest: trending topics. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, took to Threads to announce the new feature on Tuesday, revealing that trending topics will be shown in both the search page and in the For You Feed in the app.…
Following a much buzzed-about trailer, Alex Garland’s political action thriller Civil War had its world premiere at SXSW last Thursday, garnering a slew of rave reviews. The reaction online since then — both to the movie itself and reviews out of the film festival — have been divisive, which might have been Garland’s purpose. Set during a…
BeReal is in a real bind. According to Business Insider, employees were told at a February all-hands meeting that the app had about ten months of runway left before running out of money. While BeReal has maintained a relatively low head count of 60 employees, its server costs are significant. Now, leadership is scrambling to…