Twitter is considering creating special account types for humor and satire accounts, a company representative let slip during a Wednesday press call about verification. While detailing the company’s already announced plan to create “automated” and “memorial” account types in an online presentation to reporters, Twitter product manager B Byrne offhandedly mentioned that the company wasn’t…
The blue-check wave is coming. Twitter officially launched a new public-facing application for account verification Thursday. It’s not clear who will get to apply on day one, but Twitter says it will roll out globally over the next few weeks. Who does, and does not, get verified on Twitter has been the source of frequent…
If you’re reading this, it means you haven’t muted “ADHD” from your feeds yet. For that, I’m grateful. At the same time, I kinda get why you might have. Over the past year or so, ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) seems to have exploded on social media, particularly on TikTok and Twitter. Simultaneously (almost inevitably), the growing…
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If at first you don’t succeed… Twitter announced Wednesday an update to its ongoing effort to pare back the volume of what it deems to be toxic replies sloshing around the social media platform. Specifically, starting May 5 on the Twitter iOS app and shortly thereafter on the Android app, English-language users may be shown…
Even as social media companies improve their accessibility features, there’s still a lot of work to be done before we get to universal access. We talked to social media creators and disability advocates Chrissy Marshall and Molly Burke about how companies and creators can bridge accessibility gaps. Read more… More about Mashable Video, Social Media,…
TikTok no longer considers “Asian women” a dirty phrase. The video sharing app has fixed an issue that censored the term in its automatic captions, saying that it was an “error.” TikTok introduced automatic captions in early April, testing it in the U.S. and Japan with the intent to eventually roll it out more widely.…
The front page of the internet may be getting a voice. Reddit is quietly exploring a new feature that would enable moderator-run voice chats, possibly similar to Clubhouse, according to a source familiar with the company’s plan. Development is still in the early stages, and was described as confidential. We reached out to Reddit multiple…
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