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7 votes
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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield shares his experience managing growing user demand during the COVID-19 pandemic
@stewart: My day job (also: night job) is CEO of Slack, a publicly traded company with investors to whom I am a fiduciary, 110k+ paying customers of all sizes, and thousands of employees I care about very, very much. The last few weeks have been đ¤Żđłđ˘ Here's what it's been like.
7 votes -
Twitter starts testing its own version of Stories, called "Fleets," which disappear after twenty-four hours and can't receive likes, retweets, or replies
10 votes -
Hank Green - The "38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer" reported by CNN is misleading
10 votes -
Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
5 votes -
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing âplatform manipulationâ
19 votes -
The story of how Saudia Arabia influenced two well-liked Twitter employees to access thousands of users' private information and pass it to the Saudi Royal Family
10 votes -
Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview
@aissn: Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview. Thanks @gabrielluong https://t.co/cXOCB00tKk
23 votes -
How Twitter's default settings enabled a security researcher to discover phone numbers for over seventeen million accounts
10 votes -
The Yang Gang and its bots
14 votes -
Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen
5 votes -
The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
16 votes -
Sonos's ârecycle modeâ intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
@atomicthumbs: Sonos states on their website that "sustainability is non-negotiable," and that they design products to minimize impact, but I work at an e-waste recycler and have demonstrable proof this is false. Sonos's "recycle mode" intentionally bricks good devices so they can't be reused.
33 votes -
Mastodon founder, Eugen, responding to Twitter's Bluesky announcement
21 votes -
Twitter announces "bluesky", an investigation of decentralization standards for social media, with the goal of converting Twitter into a client
25 votes -
Twitter announces that the plan to delete inactive accounts is now on hold, but was primarily aimed at EU accounts due to GDPR
14 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee proposes "Contract for the Web": A set of principles to guide a better development of the Internet
12 votes -
Twitter adds 'hide reply' function to try to improve online conversation
7 votes -
Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia
9 votes -
Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally
42 votes -
"Facebook is wrong and I have receipts"âJedd Legum provides proof Daily Wire is gaming Facebook's algorithm
@juddlegum: 1. UPDATE: So in response to my report that The Daily Wire is gaming Facebook with a network of 14 large pages Facebook released a new statement. Facebook says these are "real pages run by real people" Facebook is wrong and I have receipts https://t.co/z5s3LsOMm3
11 votes -
Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters
@mikebeas: Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. https://t.co/QMDJyc4uRO
9 votes -
Air ticket booking site uses Math.random for "38 people are looking at this right now" UX dark pattern
@ophirharpaz: 1/4] Ok this is really funny, check this out. I was in the process of booking a flight via @OneTravel. Trying to make me book ASAP, they claimed: "38 people are looking at this flight". Whoa, 38 is a lot, I have to hurry up.
33 votes -
This sure looks like Mitt Romneyâs secret Twitter accountâMeet âPierre Delectoâ
18 votes -
Lindsay Ellis, video essayist - XOXO Festival 2019
9 votes -
More control over your conversations now available in Japan and the US
3 votes -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was compromised, sent public tweets and retweets including racial slurs
17 votes -
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
20 votes -
The events that led to Gamergate started five years ago today, and The New York Times has just published a series of four pieces related to it
I'm posting this in ~tech since I think the stories are more related to social media than games. I haven't read them yet, but am just about to start working my way through. Unfortunately, they're...
I'm posting this in ~tech since I think the stories are more related to social media than games. I haven't read them yet, but am just about to start working my way through.
Unfortunately, they're in a weird and ugly format, with an incredibly distracting background that constantly sends little "mouse cursors" towards the actual location of your mouse. I highly recommend using Reader Mode or something similar to get rid of the styles. You might also have to click a "READ MORE" link in the right place to even get the text of the article to show up properly.
Here are links to the 4 pieces (I'm not even sure if they'll work properly because of this disaster of a layout):
26 votes -
Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
18 votes -
What exactly are these âAmazon FC Ambassadorsâ on Twitter, how many of them are there, and are they actually real people?
28 votes -
Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnellâs campaign account after pressure
12 votes -
US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnellâs campaign Twitter lock
10 votes -
Twitter announces bugs in their advertising settings that resulted in sharing and using users' data even if they explicitly opted out
8 votes -
The Man Who Built The Retweet: âWe Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Oldsâ
12 votes -
What do y'all think about the new Twitter design?
It's obviously unfamiliar, but I have to say that I don't think it's that much worse than the one we had before. It does obviously follow the trend of making everything look so much more mobile-y,...
It's obviously unfamiliar, but I have to say that I don't think it's that much worse than the one we had before. It does obviously follow the trend of making everything look so much more mobile-y, but unlike Reddit they haven't really messed with the core display of content - in fact, I'd say the tweets themselves have gotten a bit larger. I've heard that the timeline gets reset to algorithmic sorting every 24h, which is an absolute no-go for me, but I haven't experienced that aspect myself.
Related: I've recently started using Tweetdeck and honestly have no idea why I should ever switch back to the main Twitter feed, redesign or not. Columns, lists, the customisation - it's pretty much everything I've ever wanted. Any tips or opinions on that?
14 votes -
Infowars host, still verified on Twitter, calls for lynching of Barack Obama
27 votes -
Introducing a new Twitter.com - a refreshed and updated website
12 votes -
iOS 13 redraws your eyes using ARKit so that you're looking at the camera instead of the screen
@schukin: How iOS 13 FaceTime Attention Correction works: it simply uses ARKit to grab a depth map/position of your face, and adjusts the eyes accordingly. Notice the warping of the line across both the eyes and nose. https://t.co/U7PMa4oNGN
23 votes -
Twitter announces a plan to apply click-through "notices" to future tweets from politicians that violate Twitter rules but are "in the public interest"
18 votes -
No, Elon Musk did not delete his Twitter account
4 votes -
8chan is raided by the FBI regarding California synagogue shooter
@swodinsky: lmaooooooo 8chan just got search warranted
13 votes -
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw built a fake political site and then hired a Russian troll campaign to attack it
12 votes -
Chrome Incognito mode no longer detectable in Chrome 76
@paul_irish: Chrome Incognito mode has been detectable for years, due to the FileSystem API implementation. As of Chrome 76, this is fixed. Apologies to the "detect private mode" scripts out there. đ
17 votes -
How Twitter needs to change | Jack Dorsey
11 votes -
Twitterbots: Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign
7 votes -
Twitter has started researching whether white supremacists belong on Twitter
21 votes -
Judge rejects Muskâs arguments to dismiss âpedo guyâ defamation suit
14 votes -
How Twitter users compare to the general American public
9 votes -
Microsoft Edge's build system runs on Linux
@kylealden: @VOsikwemhe @MSEdgeDev Not yet - it's something we'd like to do eventually (our build system runs on Linux) but we're taking things one step at a time starting from Win10, and can't commit to Linux just yet.
5 votes