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Wikipedia Co-Founder Launches Facebook Alternative WT:Social

J. Luis November 15, 2019

A couple of years back, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales launched a new media platform in Wikitribune. The platform was intended to be an online publication that would combat fake news with original reporting. The...

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Adidas Catches Heat For Botched Twitter Campaign

B. Simmons July 2, 2019

It’s like they never learn that auto-tweeting user-created content is exploitable. Normal people, or those with even the barest-minimum mischievous streak (like me) can probably guess that auto-tweeting user created content is a bad...

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New California law bans bots from pretending to be human

J. Luis October 8, 2018

Effective July 1, bots in California will have to identify themselves before chatting you up. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the new bill which makes it illegal for bots to pretend to be real in...

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Video Games

Guild Wars 2 Writers Fired After Internet Argument

B. Simmons July 7, 2018

Twitter – the hill you’ll probably die on. Guild Wars 2 has lost two of its writers go over a scuffle with a content creator. And almost all the drama happened on Twitter. Which,...

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Twitter Wants you to Change your Passwords After Glitch

B. Simmons May 3, 2018

It’s always fun memorizing a new password, isn’t it. Twitter is urging users to change their passwords after a recent glitch left some of them in a state where they could be read. They...

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Library of Congress isn’t Archiving Tweets Anymore

B. Simmons December 26, 2017

Nobody gives a shit about your dumbass Doctor Who headcanon. The Library of Congress is no longer archiving tweets in general. They’ve acquired an archive of tweets over time since starting in 2010, even...

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Twitter Has Sued The Trump Administration Over Order To Unmask ‘Rogue’ Account

J. Luis April 6, 2017

Twitter has not been having the best of times, what with being the most wretched hive of scum and villainy in the world of social media. But the service is taking some action, and...

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Twitter Makes Users Follow President Trump Against Their Will; Promptly Apologies

J. Luis January 21, 2017

2016 wasn’t the best year for Twitter. From having to deal with issues of abuse on the service and all sorts of turmoil behind closed doors, the company needed to kick off 2017 on...

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Video-sharing app ‘Vine’ is dead

J. Luis October 27, 2016

Vine was a pretty big deal when it hit the internet only a few years ago. Even during its short time it manged to make stars of a number of its users. The limitations...

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Video Games

Deus Ex team poke fun at Black Ops 3 teaser

J. Luis April 24, 2015

Did you happen to catch the Call of Duty Black Ops 3 “Ember” teaser trailer that dropped a few days back? Well, the dev team responsible for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided sure did! For...