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Twitter has finally added a mute button for users of its website and apps on the iOS and Android platforms.
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Could be useful, sometimes... 
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Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now. You can customize your profile by selecting unique profile and header images, by pinning a Tweet, and by adding a name, bio, location, website and theme color that other users will see when they visit your profile page. Learn more:
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You can customize your profile by selecting unique profile and header images, by pinning a Tweet, and by adding a name, bio, location, website and theme color that other users will see when they visit your profile page. Learn more:
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Facebook will soon eliminate messaging from its iOS and Android apps, forcing users to download Messenger in order to chat on mobile.
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Facebook will soon eliminate messaging from its iOS and Android apps, forcing users to download Messenger in order to chat on mobile.
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Une mère de famille originaire du Colorado (USA) a voulu faire comprendre à sa fille les dangers de Facebook et des réseaux sociaux. Mais l’expérience a très mal tourné... En savoir plus :
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Is Social Media Relevant? Take the Quiz
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James Jandebeur's curator insight,
March 16, 2014 9:59 AM
According to Facebook's news page, the service has 1.23 billion active users, a little over 20% of the population of the world. Twitter has around 200 million. These services, or something like them, have become increasingly important in our lives, influencing the news media and a variety of public decision making processes. Between a need for security and utility, we need to start learning, then teaching, then learning some more, how to best use social media, and classrooms are not the only place where this needs to be done.
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Facebook scammers are trying to trick users into liking their pages by promising them a BMW 435i. This is just the latest in a long series of scams ab...
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Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The deal, which was 70 percent stock and 30 percent cash the company said, will be completed during the first quarter of this year.
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Facebook today launched new features to help marketers reach people across devices and encourage them to take action. Custom Audiences now allows businesses to deliver targeted messages ...
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Zwei US-Amerikaner klagen derzeit gegen Facebook und werfen dem sozialen Netzwerk vor, Privatnachrichten für Werbezwecke mitgelesen zu haben.
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Robert Scoble, Nerd, Blogger und selbst ernannter Google-Glass-Kenner war einer der ersten Menschen weltweit, die einen Prototyp von Google Glass in die Finger bekamen. Sein Fazit: Schick, aber ein Misserfolg.
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Security researcher Egor Homakov has discovered a Twitter vulnerability which allows apps to send DMs without requiring explicit user permission. TNW has verified the findings and can ...
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Don't want the entire Facebook-using and -abusing population to see your friends list? You could set your friend list to private, but fat lot of good that will do, given a researcher's discovery th...
Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
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Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
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Using the power of Social Media, I FREAKED PEOPLE OUT by making them think I knew personal information about them! Join the Vale Nation► http://bit.ly/JoinVa...
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Cindy Rogers's curator insight,
November 20, 2013 4:22 AM
How much are you unwittingly sharing about yourself? 
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December 3, 2014 11:07 AM
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Twitter is looking to encourage more private discussions on its service. CEO Dick Costolo would like to have a "whisper mode" that allows users to take pub There are frequently public conversations that you would like to grab hold of and take into whisper mode with a friend and say, hey, this thing has happened. Look what these people are talking about. What do you think about this, with a friend or more than one friend. So being able to move fluidly between that public conversation and the private conversation is something we’ll make simpler.
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There are frequently public conversations that you would like to grab hold of and take into whisper mode with a friend and say, hey, this thing has happened. Look what these people are talking about. What do you think about this, with a friend or more than one friend. So being able to move fluidly between that public conversation and the private conversation is something we’ll make simpler. .
Michelle Gilstrap's curator insight,
May 1, 2014 11:52 AM
This sounds like having a Facebook private chat. Might be very popular. Direct message was designed for this, but that became like spam, let's hope this doesn't as well.
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After several weeks of testing its redesigned profiles, Twitter has today rolled out the new look to all users. You can enable it for your own account right now. The comprehensive overhaul has... Learn more:
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Facebook plans to bring Internet to the third-world via drones, satellites, lasers, and more. Today Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook's Connectivity Lab will..
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Die umstrittene Gesichtserkennung wird bei Facebook stetig weiterentwickelt. Forscher des Konzerns wollen nun mit der Technik "Deepface" eine Erkennungsrate erreichen, die nahe der des Menschen liegt.
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Since November last year, 93,788 Twitter users - who thought their micro-blogging updates were private and protected - were being silently snooped upon.
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Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable, gearing up to announce its earnings any minute now, also has some other news: the company has acquired Ness.. Restaurant reservation platform OpenTabletoday reported quarterly earnings of $52.3 million and used the day to put out some other news: the company has acquiredNess Computing, makers of the personalized restaurant recommendations app Ness. It’s an all-cash transaction that OpenTable says is worth $17.3 million, although it comes with cash in Ness’s coffers that brings the net value to $11.3 million.
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In 2012 Twitter launched a new expanded tweet experience when they introduced Twitter Cards. These cards allow approved publishers to display more information than just the 140 characters—headlines, article summaries, images and much more can appear in a single tweet when an expansion link is clicked. Twitter has now rolled [...]
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Google's acquisition of Nest could be the most important development to ever happen in the nascent field of the Internet of Things. Here's why.
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A class-action suit claims that the social networking site monitors and uses your messages for advertising purposes.
The class-action lawsuit, submitted by Arkansas lawyer Matt Campbell and Michael Hurley from Oregon on Monday at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, says that the social networking giant monitors users' private messages in order to compile and mine data which can be used to profile web activity.
===> This data can then allegedly be used for profit through sales to marketers and advertisers -- who then can target ads based on the user's online behavior. <===
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Technology that derives personality traits from Twitter updates is being tested to help target promotions and personalize customer service.
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December 22, 2013 11:45 AM
Great what type of products will marketers try to sell you if your psycho-analysis tell them you're crazy.
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In an effort to keep your Twitter manners properly set up and to make sure you know which part of Twitter is useful for a particular type of question or conversation, check out this visual guide.
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The microblogging site adds a new security measure designed to make it harder for organizations like the National Security Agency to uncover its data. Read this article by Donna Tam on CNET News.
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Sounds odd to me... don't monitor or ignore is much easier. Why be on Twitter if you need to mute?