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Ever wished that those rando’s will quit commenting on your tweets? Apparently, it’s a real problem, especially when you consider online bully culture — a hot topic across social media platforms. And one that platform builders need to take into account when developing new features.
Imagine yourself graduating from high school, with the world before you.
But now you must decide what career you want to pursue. You hope for a job that will pay the bills, but also one you will enjoy. After all, you will spend a large portion of your waking hours at work.
Twitter’s decided it’s time to take out the trash, and will remove all inactive accounts from 11 December of this year. If you haven’t used your Twitter account in the last six months, better check your mails, bud.
Even though it’s less than 0.5% of Facebook’s $66bn revenue in the last year, the social giant will still allow adverts from politicians, even if they’re false.
Finally, some good news from the weirdo-sphere that is social media. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that, effective November 22, the microblogging platform will ban all political advertising – globally.
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Kids these days, eh? Can’t even take away their smart devices, and they go ahead and access social platforms and tweet from smart-home devices
Journalist Eve Livingston’s recent article for The Face examines the many social and cultural features of Scottish Twitter. But the fact it has provided a medium for written Scots language to evolve in a way that wasn’t possible before the advent of social media is equally fascinating.