Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
One July morning, a Kashmiri writer named Arif Ayaz Parrey was chatting with a friend on Facebook Messenger when suddenly the service logged him out. He tried to log back in, only to find his account had been disabled. Parrey wasn’t alone: Facebook had also blocked a Facebook group he runs, the Kashmiri Solidarity Network,…
Photo: AP Most publishers of news and information have policies governing their relationships to advertisers. Generally speaking, these policies are tailored to suit the goals of those publishers and the expectations of their audiences. Some publishers feel comfortable working closely with advertisers to generate stories and videos that appeal to those advertisers, others, such as…
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(Amy Cavenaile/The Washington Post; iStock) The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we’d check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending for us on the platform. The resulting daily pop-up newsletter gave us some interesting insight into the world according to…
(Kacper Pempel/Reuters) A powerful surveillance program that police used for tracking racially charged protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., relied on special feeds of user data provided by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, according to an ACLU blog post published Tuesday. The companies reportedly provided the data — often including the locations of users — to…
Back in December, I wrote this article(which got over 44,000 views), which showed some insights about the Donald Trump Facebook audience that can be extracted from Facebook’sAudience Insights tool by anyone with a Facebook ad account. I decided to quickly compare what has changed in the data. There are plenty of other things you can extract, and I…
Media On Twitter, Hate Speech Bounded Only by a Character Limit close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Twitter, which helped enable the outsider candidacy of Donald J. Trump, has hosted abusive clashes between voters. Credit John Locher/Associated Press If you go by what some Twitter users have to say, it’s a wonder…
Media The Online Video View: We Can Count It, but Can We Count on It? close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, left, spoke at Advertising Week about the company’s recent video miscalculation mishap. Credit Michael Nagle/Bloomberg ONE OF THE great promises of online videos was the potential to measure precisely how effective…
Getty Images By Markets reporter Reporter Deep-pocketed suitors are reportedly dropping their bids for Twitter—a blow that could deal a hefty hit to the social media company’s shares, analysts said Thursday. Twitter Inc. TWTR, -20.10% dropped 20.1% to $19.87 Thursday, following a Recode report Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources, saying Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +0.23%…
September 12, 2016 10:31 a.m. After All That Complaint, Only 2 Percent of Twitter Users Turned Off the Algorithm By Brian Feldman Share Share Tweet Share Share Email Print Back in February, power users of Twitter were distraught to hear that Twitter would be introducing algorithmic sorting into its feed. Up until then, Twitter had…