Reddit is officially in the NFT game. The front page of the internet announced the “experiment” Thursday morning, with Reddit Product Lead Peter Yang explaining that the non-fungible tokens would take the form of cartoon avatars modeled after the Reddit logo. Bidding on the NFTs, which are essentially metadata encoded onto the Ethereum blockchain that…
If you’re feeling Q’d out, you’re not alone. I, for one, would have been happy to leave my reading about the pro-Trump online conspiracy theory QAnon back in the Trump era. Despite the best efforts of its murder-minded followers who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Joe Biden was inaugurated. We’ve clawed back a hard-won…
Let the great shilling commence. Twitter announced Tuesday that select users can apply for early access to two new features that will empower them to charge other Twitter users for access to their precious — and presumably premium — content. Dubbed Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces, the programs aim to officially monetize the relationship between…
Do you run a Facebook page for a brand? Maybe you run a personal page for you and some friends? Or perhaps you run a public Ariana Grande fan club page? (Or, you know, a page for one of your own personal interests.) Running a Facebook page on your own can be difficult. Thankfully, you…
Facebook started as a way to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard students. It eventually morphed into a way to post vacation photos, alienate friends and family with political views, shop for furniture, and even find love. Not content to merely worm its way into every other part of our lives, it looks like Facebook’s…
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So, you want to get verified on Twitter. Fortunately for you, there’s now an official way to make that happen. On Thursday, Twitter announced that users can once again apply to receive that coveted blue check which has been the center of so much drama over the years. The process to do so is quite…
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…