Science & Technology | Social Media

Pinterest shares rise 28% on first day of trading, worth $13 billion | VentureBeat

Shares of Pinterest closed 28.58% higher than the IPO price on the first day of trading, giving the image-sharing site a $12.83 billion valuation.

Gaming | Gaming

Facebook's AI extracts playable characters from real-world videos | VentureBeat

In a newly published paper, scientists at Facebook AI Research describe a system that can extract controllable characters from real-world videos.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Facebook exposed millions more Instagram passwords than we realized

Facebook today revealed it'd discovered millions of improperly secured passwords on its server. So, you know... business as usual.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Thousands of leaked Facebook documents show Mark Zuckerberg as ‘master of leverage’ in plan to trade user data

Facebook’s leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.

Science & Technology | Social Media

The chat feature may soon return to Facebook’s mobile app

Facebook upset millions upon millions of users five years ago when it removed chat from its core mobile app and forced them to download Messenger to communicate privately with friends. Now it looks like it might be able to restore the option inside the Fa

Science & Technology | Social Media

Twitter drops the number of people you can follow in a day

The change is aimed at cracking down on spammers.

Science & Technology | Social Media

To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself

Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried to take the high road versus Facebook, with Spiegel claiming “Our values are hard to copy”. That inaction allowed Zu

Politics | Interesting Links

If you thought New Zealand’s gun ban was fast, check out their new social media laws – twitchy.com

It's amazing how quickly you can get things done when individual rights aren't a concern.

This is insane, and why our Constitution is so important, free speech and personal responsibility mean nothing in other countries.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Facebook asks for public input about its plans for a content oversight board

In November, Facebook announced its plans to create an external content oversight board that would serve as something of a “supreme court” for Facebook’s more controversial content policy decisions. With the release of a draft charter i

Science & Technology | Social Media

New Facebook tool answers the question “Why am I seeing this post?”

Facebook announced today that it is adding a feature called “Why am I seeing this post?” to News Feeds. Similar to “Why am I seeing this ad?,” which has appeared next to advertisements since 2014, the new tool has a dropdown menu that gives users

Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing

Taking A Stand On Authenticity In Influencer Marketing

In an age where digital avatars are the new social influencers and an egg is the most "liked" picture on Instagram, does authenticity even exist anymore?

Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing

10 Instagram Marketing Tools to Help Grow Your Brand on Instagram in 2019

Instagram marketing can help you scale your brand quickly, and these tools can help you do that.

Humor | Humor

Learn to drive traffic and sales through social media marketing for $29

This 10-course social media master class bundle dives into everything from Facebook to influencer marketing.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Twitter Defends User Who Wants to ‘Stone The Jews’

So much for that “healthy conversation.” Twitter’s rules on abusive behavior and hate speech apparently exclude any form of anti-Semitism. Arsen Ostrovsky, executive director of the Israeli-Jewish Congress, reported a tweet directed at him which sho

Because of course they did. The only social media platform that would never, under any circumstances, no matter what, allows something like this is Moptu

Science & Technology | Social Media

How Twitter (Yes, Twitter) Became the Most Brand-Safe Platform – Adweek

Science & Technology | Social Media

3 Key Impacts of Facebook's Latest Changes on Brands

This is what Zuckerberg's latest announcement means for your business

News | The News

LET THEM FIGHT: Sesame Street’s desert island tweet takes an awfully dark turn – twitchy.com

Sesame Street has put us in an ugly situation here.

This is hilarious.

Science & Technology | Social Media

MySpace Probably Lost Everything Uploaded To Its Servers Before 2015

In what can only be good news for future political candidates — but is definitely bad news for technology company MySpace — it seems the predecessor to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram lost most of what users uploaded to its social media platform befo

Science & Technology | Social Media

Council Post: How To Apply Social Selling To A Social Media Marketing Campaign

Today, salespeople are increasingly connecting with prospects on social networks.

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

Council Post: How To Apply Social Selling To A Social Media Marketing Campaign

Today, salespeople are increasingly connecting with prospects on social networks.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Twitter reveals big changes to conversations and new camera features

The changes are meant to make good on the company's promise to promote "healthy conversation."

I think some of these are a big mistake.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger are down for some users

It's not just you: Facebook's apps are having an outage.

Join Moptu! I know that the owners would move to have you! I think of it as social media for smart people.

Business & Finance | Marketing

3 Reasons Why Marketers Are Moving Away From Never-Ending Feeds to Strategy-Based Stories – Adweek

The future of social media is ever-changing.

Science & Technology | Technology

Twitter is testing a method for users to hide replies to tweets

Twitter has been hiding replies from what it deems to be suspect or troll accounts for a little while now.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature | TechCrunch

Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the same way the Facebook-owned app did to Snapchat. Code buried in Instagram for Android shows the company has prototyped an option to create public “Collections” to which mul

Science & Technology | Social Media

How to Use Visuals Effectively for Social Media Marketing

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a meme or infographic must be worth a thousand likes, right?……

Science & Technology | Social Media

Twitter may let us 'clarify' (but not edit) our old tweets

Twitter 2025 could be a non-stop line of 'No, that's not what I meant.'

Business & Finance | Marketing

Three Skills a Marketer Should Have to Master Instagram

Do you use Instagram for business? Here are 3 skills you should have to play and master Instagram and the game of visual marketing.

Science & Technology | Tech

Facebook reportedly negotiating multibillion dollar fine with FTC

Facebook could face a multibillion-dollar fine from the Federal Trade Commission.

Business & Finance | Business

How To Build A Brand Through Social Media

Social media is an incredible tool to grow a business. Designers Anne Maxwell Foster and Suysel dePedro Cunningham of Tilton Fenwick used social media to get press features, clients, and brand partnerships. Here's how they did it and their top 10 tips for

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

14 Influencers Talk About Their Most Popular Image on Instagram - Feature Shoot

© Christopher Anderson Christopher Anderson “To be honest, this IG thing confuses me. Some images I am convinced will be crowd pleasers don’t generate interest, and then some that I almost don’t post because I think they are not good en

Science & Technology | Technology

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gives himself a 'C' in 'tech responsibility'

In a live interview conducted on Twitter, ReCode's Kara Swisher pressed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about what grade Dorsey would give his company and himself at fulfilling "tech responsibility."

Science & Technology | TECH

LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service

LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users globally — says that video is the fastest-growing format on its platform alongside original written work, shared news and other content. Now it’s taking

Science & Technology | Social Media

Is Facebook About To 'Break' Instagram, And What Does That Mean For Influencers?

Until now, Instagram has kept its distance from Facebook and the brands have been kept separate. But that could all be about to change, driven by influencer marketing, and the challenge for Facebook is to make that work without breaking the Instagram infl

Science & Technology | Social Media

5 new features Twitter is testing in its iOS app

Twitter has been quietly testing improvements to night mode, encrypted direct messages, and new ways to use GIFs, according to new screenshots.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Researchers say Twitter's not doing enough to combat abuse

Does Twitter need to do more to police its APIs? Researchers say yes.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Account linking could make Instagram the heir to Facebook Login

Teens’ aversion to Facebook jeopardizes not only the company’s feed ad revenue, but its dominance as an identity provider. The Facebook Login platform keeps people tied to the social network in order to easily access other apps without a separ

Science & Technology | Technology

Snopes quits fact-checking partnership with Facebook

Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook.

Well, seems like fact checking ideologically based content takes more than just hiring a third party. If only people were knowledgeable and well versed enough to determine the facts independently, but that would take work.

Science & Technology | Tech

Apple yanks Facebook and Google apps from the App Store

Apple disables Facebook and Google’s internal applications

Science & Technology | Tech News

Google+ will bid users farewell on April 2nd

The enterprise version will continue to live on, though.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Instagram outage forces millions to look directly at the world for nearly half an hour

Photo-sharing app and social network Instagram was briefly taken offline on Monday afternoon, causing nothing of consequence to occur other than a brief respite from one source of the constant deluge of inconsequential information to which we all voluntar

Science & Technology | Social Media

Exclusive: Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable

Snap Inc is considering changes to its Snapchat app, known for disappearing phot...

Politics | Politics

Google Manipulates Search Results on ‘Controversial’ Topics, Report Says

Google tweaks search results on topics the company deems “controversial,” sometimes even changes the results manually, Google sources revealed to Breitbart.

Music | Music

Facebook teams up with Yad Vashem to commemorate Shoah victims online

New project lets online users be randomly matched to one of the 4,800,000 names recorded in Yad Vashem’s central database of Shoah victims.

Not always a fan of Facebook-but I applaud this and Yad Vashem ALWAYS does good work.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Facebook is integrating WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger | TechRadar

Facebook is bringing its three messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger closer.

Science & Technology | Technology

Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook - The Verge

Today, advocacy groups are calling for Facebook to be broken up as a result of its Cambridge Analytica scandal, subsequent privacy violations, and repeated consumer data breaches.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Twitter starts rolling out simplified web interface to some users

Twitter is starting to deploy a revamped web client that's simpler to look at and promises tweaks like an emoji button and a revised trending section.

Sports | Sports

NFL playoffs 2019: Social media reacts to controversial no-call in final minutes of Saints-Rams matchup

The Saints were not happy with the referees in the final minutes of their NFC Championship matchup with the Rams on Sunday.

Business & Finance | Marketing

The 9 Worst Things Your Business Can Do on Social Media (And What to Do Instead) - SMALL BIZ AHEAD

Even if you understand the ins and outs of using social media from your personal experience, running a social media account for your business is a whole different ballgame. One insensitive post can garner negative coverage and public backlash, and even ha

Science & Technology | Social Media

Instagram will now let you post to multiple accounts at the same time

Instagram is rolling out a new feature today, which will allow users who manage multiple accounts to post the same content to all feeds more directly. Previously, users were required to either manu…

Science & Technology | Social Media

A 23 Step Social Media Marketing Checklist for 2019 [Infographic]

Looking to make sure you stay on track with your social media marketing efforts in 2019? This checklist will help.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Proving the ROI of influencer marketing is challenging but it can be done

Marketers have singled out measuring ROI as one of the biggest challenges they have with influencer marketing, but there are ways it can be done.

Business & Finance | Marketing

7 Digital Marketing Trends You Must Use in 2019

You Can No Longer Ignore These Trends

Science & Technology | Social Media

10 Improvements Influencer Marketing Has To Make In 2019

If influencer marketing wants to move from a line item in the "experimental" budget to a line item in the media budget, the industry will need to continue to mature in 2019.

Science & Technology | Technology

What’s next for 2019? Influencer marketing trends | ZDNet

Will professional influencers become all the rage in 2019 – or will they disappear as the next new influential technology arrives?

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Study Finds Being On Your Phone Constantly Can Be Harmful | Psychology Today

A new study shows why you should take a break from your phone once in a while.

Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research

The Complicated Relationship Between Social Media and Depression - Neuroscience News

A new study reveals a correlation between the passive use of social media and depression symptoms such as loneliness and fatigue.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Confronting Facebook's Growing Pains

It is not that Facebook wants to promote poisonous material, but its system is designed in a manner that is allowing it to happen.

Science & Technology | Tech

How To Start, Manage and Grow Your Social Network Without a Huge Time Commitment

Owning or managing all marketing for a small business is hard! Without a large staff (or, let’s be honest, any staff) you probably find yourself pulling long days and fulfilling a variety of roles…

Science & Technology | Social Media

The Facebook Ads Strategy That Can't Lose

It's a numbers game.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Facebook Is Full of Emotional-Support Groups - The Atlantic

People are sharing their deepest secrets on Facebook. Does the social network understand what it’s gotten into?

Science & Technology | Technology

Facebook is ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment complaints - The Verge

Facebook is ending the controversial practice of mandatory arbitration for sexual harassment claims, following protests over such policies at Google, which ended them earlier this week.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Instagram might be working on school Stories

It would only contain content from a particular school’s student body.

Once again Instagram adopts a feature that Moptu was designed for. As the obmy social platform designed specifically to share articles, we are the perfect social media platform to use in classrooms. That should be obvious.

Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing

8 Old School Marketing Tactics That Work for Social Media

Okay, so it’s hard to imagine Don Draper meeting with Bethlehem Steel execs in Sterling Cooper’s top floor Madison Avenue […]

News | News

Facebook says it 'mistakenly' removed rabbi's story about harassment by Farrakhan supporters

Facebook “mistakenly” removed a New York Rabbi’s story about being harassed by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s supporters on Thursday.

Science & Technology | Technology

Twitter is sorry about that whole 'Kill all Jews' thing

Many New Yorkers awoke to a bit of a surprise when “Kill all Jews” briefly made an appearance in their Twitter sidebar. On a social network with a hate speech problem, it’s not unusual to see this type of content. Twitter has been locked in a perpet

Was it a “mistake” or was it the normal course of business for a company that allowed Farrakhan’s “Jews are termites” tweet stay up and has never banned him despite calling Jews “satanic” and worse for decades. It’s one of the many reasons I support Moptu.

Science & Technology | Social Media

I Built a Social Media Following of 1 Million in 30 Days. Here's How You Can, Too.

By applying these social strategies you can build a huge following with high levels of engagement.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Forget celebrity influencers - reach micro-influencers who impact your brand

Celebrity endorsements may not have the traction we think - fake followers included.Takumi thinks it has found a better way - with micro-influencers.

Science & Technology | Tech

Why Personal Curation Led To 90 Million Readers On The Apple News App

Sure, Apple includes its News app on iOS devices and Macs, but how many people actually flip through it on a regular basis? Quite a few, it seems. As part of...

This is TOTAL proof of concept for Moptu. We are the ONLY tech platform that combines human curation and the power of social media. The only one. We recognized that it was a solution to the fake news problem YEARS before it was called "fake news." If you are an investor and want to learn more about what we're doing, get in touch: joshn@moptu.com.

Science & Technology | Social Media

How to Become the Social Media Manager Every Company Dreams Of

As more brands realize the need to reach their audience online, the demand for social media managers to help grow their business through social is rapidly increasing. As social media marketing recrui…

Science & Technology | Social Media

A New App Will Plan Your Next Vacation Based on an Instagram Photo | Mental Floss

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.

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Scrolling through Instagram is a great way to spark your wanderlust. It’s almost impossible to look at other people’s picturesque vacation photos and not imagine yourself in their world-traveling shoes. Knowing that plenty of travelers turn to social media feeds and influencers for trip inspiration, easyJet is cutting out the middleman.

Science & Technology | Technology

Pinterest Just Made It Easier To Sell More Stuff...And Other Small Business Tech News This Week

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

Business & Finance | Marketing

Influencer Marketing: How To Make Human Connections Work For Your Brand

Emotions have always played a role in consumers’ purchase decisions, and today’s digital influencers are the ideal launchpad for brands looking to form authentic bonds with audiences.

Science & Technology | Tech

Twitter now shows if a tweet was deleted for policy violations

Twitter recently announced it’s rolling out a feature to provide context around deleted tweets – including who deleted them and why. It’s a small change, but it’s the latest in a series of moves Twitter is making in an effort to bolster transpare

It’s absurd that they choose which tweets are deleted and which remain given their extremely obvious bias. They essentially censor anything they disagree with, but then act like what they are really doing is providing “transparency.” Hiw fantastic of them. They won’t delete tweets of bigots like Louis Farrakhan, but when they finally delete one, they let you know. This is yet another reason why I like Moptu. It’s small and there is none of that type of Orwellian nonsense.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Why Social Media Isn’t Working for Your Business, and 6 Things You Can Do About It – Adweek

Science & Technology | Social Media

Facebook will delete posts that spread voting misinformation this election

Facebook today announced it’s tackling the most basic form of fake news to circulate around the time of an election: Voter misinformation and anything that might keep users away from the voting booths this fall. Specifically, the company revealed it wou

This is absurd for a litany of reasons. First, they allow a constant flow of political “misinformation,” but draw the line at voting? That makes no sense. Second, who determines what “misinformation” is? Clearly Facebook has a bias and is not capable of dispassionately enforcing its own bias rules. Third, people should be informed enough to differentiate between false and real information on their own and if they aren’t, it’s not Facebook’s responsibility. They treat adults like infants. At least they do when they are supposedly attempting to stop “fake news.” At Moptu we treat our users like adults. We believe in personal responsibility.

Science & Technology | Social Media

YouTube Stars Accused of Profiting Off Fans' Depression - The Atlantic

Viewers are outraged that some of the site’s biggest celebrities have partnered with a controversial online counseling service.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Here’s how to find out if your Facebook was hacked in the breach | TechCrunch

Are you one of the 30 million users hit by Facebook’s access token breach announced two weeks ago? Here’s how to find out. Facebook breach saw 15M users’ names & contact info accessed, 14M’s bios too Visit this Facebook Help center link while

Business & Finance | Marketing

Little-Known Best Practices For Launching A Successful Influencer Marketing Campaign

Influencer-driven word-of-mouth marketing is entering a Golden Age -- the result of an explosive rise in social media usage. And marketers need to take advantage.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Facebook removes over 550 Pages, 250 accounts in latest spam purge ahead of US midterms

The hundreds of bad accounts were removed for breaking the site's rules for "spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior."

Science & Technology | Social Media

Google+ to shut down after coverup of data-exposing bug

Google is about to have its Cambridge Analytica moment. A security bug allowed third-party developers to access Google+ user profile data since 2015 until Google discovered and patched it in March, but decided not to inform the world. When a user gave per

Well we (Moptu) outlasted Google+! We’re more than happy to welcome their users!

Science & Technology | Social Media

Facebook, are you kidding? | TechCrunch

Facebook is making a video camera. The company wants you to take it home, gaze into its single roving-yet-unblinking eye and speak private thoughts to your loved ones into its many-eared panel. The thing is called Portal and it wants to live on your kitch

This is a very bad idea.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Extreme selfies have resulted in 259 deaths, says US report

The desire for ever more extreme selfies has so far resulted in 259 deaths, says a new report by the US National Library of Medicine ...

There are idiots everywhere.

Science & Technology | Social Media

Relike lets you turn a Facebook page into a newsletter | TechCrunch

French startup Ownpage has recently released a new product called Relike. Relike is one of the easiest ways to get started with email newsletters. You enter the web address of your Facebook page and that’s about it. The company automatically pulls your

This is a cool idea. Not as cool as Moptu though!

Science & Technology | Social Media

How Facebook could screw up Instagram - Recode

Let’s hope it doesn’t.