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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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Le ministère du Développement durable et des Infrastructures (MDDI) ouvre un compte Twitter afin de plus et mieux informer les citoyens. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe
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April 30, 2014 11:35 AM
Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe .
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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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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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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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Facebook announced on Wednesday afternoon that it had reached an agreement to buy popular mobile messaging company WhatsApp for a total of $16 billion, include $4 billion in cash and about $12 billion in Facebook shares. WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users and is adding more than 1 million new registered users per day.
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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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Zwei US-Amerikaner klagen derzeit gegen Facebook und werfen dem sozialen Netzwerk vor, Privatnachrichten für Werbezwecke mitgelesen zu haben.
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Technology that derives personality traits from Twitter updates is being tested to help target promotions and personalize customer service.
Oscar Melendez's curator insight,
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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Twitter has announced that it is now introducing a new type of ads that is based on web-surfing activity, much in the way Google or Facebook do, for i...
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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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November 20, 2013 4:22 AM
How much are you unwittingly sharing about yourself? 
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December 3, 2014 11:07 AM
Scary video, Big Brother is watching!
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As a result of the growing NSA revelations, the social microblogging site is upping its defenses by planning to encrypt its direct messaging Service.
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There's bad news for social media lovers, as Buffer - a service which can schedule your tweets and Facebook posts - has been hacked by spammers.
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If you are on Facebook, and want to be kept updated with news about security and privacy risks, and tips on how to protect yourself online, join the Graham Cluley Security News Facebook page. - https://facebook.com/GrahamCluleycom
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October 26, 2013 5:19 PM
If you are on Facebook, and want to be kept updated with news about security and privacy risks, and tips on how to protect yourself online, join the Graham Cluley Security News Facebook page.
- https://facebook.com/GrahamCluleycom
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October 26, 2013 5:22 PM
If you are on Facebook, and want to be kept updated with news about security and privacy risks, and tips on how to protect yourself online, join the Graham Cluley Security News Facebook page.
- https://facebook.com/GrahamCluleycom
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Twitter has announced two changes aimed at helping protect user accounts and restore access to them. "To protect your account in this scenario we built a system that analyzes login attempts on your account - by looking at things like location, device being used and login history - and identifies suspicious behavior," they shared.
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To protect your account in this scenario we built a system that analyzes login attempts on your account - by looking at things like location, device being used and login history - and identifies suspicious behavior, they shared.
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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 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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Is Social Media Relevant? Take the Quiz
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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 CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired Facebook is buying WhatsApp, agreeing to pay $19 billion in cash and stock for the popular smartpho
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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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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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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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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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Facebook aurait reçu des autorités européennes 8 500 demandes d'informations utilisateurs au premier semestre 2013, dont 1 500 effectuées par la France.
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Almost everyone has had their social media accounts compromised at least once in the past, where their accounts automatically share scam links to friends and followers.
===> Today’s attack on Buffer <=== showed just how easy it is for a reputable company to cause its users to become victims of social media attacks, despite having done nothing wrong.
It’s hard to know what to do in these situations so we’ve prepared a primer on how you can deal with attacks if your social media account were to be compromised.
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Visit the applications page of the social network and remove any apps you don’t recognize. If the account continues to behave erratically we recommend you ===> revoke access <=== to all applications.
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October 26, 2013 7:50 PM
Visit the applications page of the social network and remove any apps you don’t recognize. If the account continues to behave erratically we recommend you ===> revoke access <=== to all applications.
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October 26, 2013 7:55 PM
Visit the applications page of the social network and remove any apps you don’t recognize. If the account continues to behave erratically we recommend you ===> revoke access <=== to all applications. |
Sounds odd to me... don't monitor or ignore is much easier. Why be on Twitter if you need to mute?