Category: Twitter


May
2022

one-week break from social media

categories: contemplative computing, contemplative pedagogy, social media, Twitter

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/cyber.2021.0324

Taking a One-Week Break from Social Media Improves Well-Being, Depression, and Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The intervention effect on well-being was partially mediated by a reduction in total weekly self-reported minutes on SM. The intervention effect on depression and anxiety was partially mediated by a reduction in total weekly self-reported minutes on Twitter and TikTok, and TikTok alone, respectively. The present study shows that asking people to stop using SM for 1 week leads to significant improvements in well-being, depression, and anxiety.


Jan
2022

social media for holocaust remembrance

categories: social media, Twitter
@lilyebert

98-year-old Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, on @The View tomorrow for #holocaustmemorialday ❤️📺 #holocaustsurvivor #learnontiktok #strongwoman #survivor #98yearold #theview #history #neverforget

♬ original sound – Lily Ebert & Dov Forman

If you want to follow Lily’s TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@lilyebert

You can ask Lily questions on TikTok (and receive answers)

As a survivor, she was active her entire life presenting on the Holocaust. When the pandemic hit and restricted her activities, she successfully moved to Social Media.
The power of social media

https://www.tweet247.net/united%20kingdom/lily%20ebert

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more on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in this IMS blog
https://www.tweet247.net/united%20kingdom/lily%20ebert

 


Dec
2021

Tagg for Gen Z

categories: Digital literacy, Facebook, information literacy, media literacy, social media, Twitter

Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of International Growth Ed Baker, TripAdvisor founder Stephen Kaufer, Pillar VC and more.

Founded by recent alumni of Brown University and the neighboring Rhode Island School of Design, Tagg is still in private beta with thousands of users, and thousands more on a waitlist.


Apr
2021

Facebook Hotline is like Clubhouse

categories: Facebook, Instagram, social media, Twitter

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-hotline-app-clubhouse-test-video-instagram-2021-4

Hotline can be accessed via its website — there’s no app version available for smartphones yet. The website requires users to sign in via their Twitter account, rather than their Facebook account, then leave their name on a waiting list.

In contrast to audio-only Clubhouse, Hotline users can use videos and livestreams with a Q&A feature to chat to their audience, a bit like live videos on Instagram, which Facebook owns.

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more on Facebook in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=facebok


Feb
2021

BlockParty app against SM harassment

categories: Twitter

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/970300911/block-party-aims-to-be-a-spam-folder-for-social-media-harassment

Chou is a Stanford-educated software engineer who worked at tech companies including Pinterest and Quora before setting out on her own. Along the way, she’s become a leading advocate for diversity, pushing Silicon Valley to open up about how few women work in tech — a field long dominated by men.

Block Party is also designed to help deal with the worst abuse, by letting people collect evidence of threats or stalking, even if they are deleted by the users who post them or by the platforms. That documentation is critical for filing police reports, getting restraining orders and pursuing legal cases.


Jan
2021

Twitter bots climate disinformation

categories: Twitter

Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation. Researchers determined that nearly 9.5% of the users in their sample were likely bots. But those bots accounted for 25% of the total tweets about climate change on most days from r/science

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/twitter-bots-are-a-major-source-of-climate-disinformation/

paper published last week in the journal Climate Policy is part of an expanding body of research about the role of bots in online climate discourse.

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more on climate in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=climate


Dec
2020

disinformation cybersecurity

categories: Digital literacy, social media, technology literacy, Twitter, WhatsApp

It’s time to accept that disinformation is a cyber security issue from r/technology

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Its-time-to-accept-that-disinformation-is-a-cyber-security-issue

Misinformation and disinformation are rife, but so far it’s been seen as a challenge for policy-makers and big tech, including social media platforms.

The sheer volume of data being created makes it hard to tell what’s real and what’s not. From destroying 5G towers to conspiracies like QAnon and unfounded concern about election fraud, distrust is becoming the default – and this can have incredibly damaging effects on society.

So far, the tech sector – primarily social media companies, given that their platforms enable fake news to spread exponentially – have tried to implement some measures, with varying levels of success. For example, WhatsApp has placed a stricter limit on its message-forwarding capability and Twitter has begun to flag misleading posts.

the rise of tech startups that are exploring ways to detect and stem the flow of disinformation, such Right of Reply, Astroscreen and Logically.

disinformation has the potential to undermine national security

Data breaches result in the loss of value, but so can data manipulation


Nov
2020

Twitter hacked

categories: social media, Twitter

Twitter Continues to Face Scrutiny Amidst Political Backlash Due to High-Profile Hack

By IGI Global on Oct 22, 2020
https://www.igi-global.com/newsroom/archive/year-old-hack-twitter-could/4668/
the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has released an investigation report on Twitter. This report outlines the high profile attack that overtook popular celebrity accounts (including former U.S. president Barack Obama, celebrity and businesswoman Kim Kardashian West, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, and other notable celebrities) and led to the theft of US$ 118,000 in bitcoin.
DFS has called on the U.S. government to regulate social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, on cybersecurity, along with antitrust and content moderation.
Prof. Sachin Tiwari, from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, analyzes the meaning and nature of cybercrime legislation as well as the scope of policy formation in the global narrative of cybersecurity in his article, “Cyber Crime Regulation, Challenges, and Response,” sourced from the  Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web (IGI Global).
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more on Twitter in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=twitter
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