Sentences with phrase «of friends of users»

Zuckerberg said that because of the way the Facebook platform worked at the time, this gave Kogan access to data of «tens of millions» of friends of users who took the quiz.

(Facebook has also made some changes to prevent the gathering of detailed information of friends of users.)

Not exact matches

Jun 25, 2013, Sam Stemler Maintain a positive attitude and voice; people get enough cynicism and negativity from their «friends,» which is a big reason why a large percentage of even apt social media users are unhappy with their networks.

When the company rolled out its app platform in 2007, the company explained to users that when they installed an app they'd be able to share not only their own information, but that of their friends as well, he said.

In order to rewatch a Story, users have to swipe up and search a specific friend's name; the page is full of sponsored content and features celebrity stories.

Zuckerberg noted that Facebook changed its app platform in 2014, restricting the ability of app developers to harvest data on their users» Facebook friends.

«We started getting complaints from users about seeing too many political stories shared by their friends, probably due to all of the Trump - related scandals,» says Jonathan Abrams, Nuzzel's CEO and co-founder.

Because our ad strategy focuses both on new users and «Friends of Friends,» the viral nature is definitely important to our success.

Facebook announced Thursday that it will start showing users more content from their friends and family instead of businesses or publishers.

It all started when Australian Tumblr user Feminerds posted a photo on their feed of a friend who is a zookeeper taming her walruses just like Owen does.

Co-founders Devin Haman and Jeff Bozz (last we saw them, they were firing a pair of hard - partying friends named Holly and Molly) will be back for a new season on E! later this year... AmieStreet.com, a music - downloading start - up that raises the price of a song as it gains popularity, hit the jackpot when users found recordings on the site by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the woman linked with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

«In sum, social media users are not any more likely to feel stress than others, but there is a subgroup of social media users who are more aware of stressful events in their friends» lives and this subgroup of social media users does feel more stress,» the report states.

This compares to 100 % of Android users recommending their own phone to friends and 97 % of iPhone users recommending the iPhone to friends.

When the Pew Research Center surveyed thousands of Americans about their social media lives, they discovered that 44 % of Facebook users «like» content posted by their friends at least once a day, with 29 % doing so several times per day.

With the new instant video, users are able to launch impromptu video calls with their friends at the tap of a button so long as both users are viewing their Messenger conversation at the same time.

One last interesting feature of the service is that users can share their accounts and passwords with friends or loved ones, which includes passing such information on in the event of death.

The survey found that 52 % of BlackBerry users would definitely recommend an iPhone to their friends or family.

According to The Telegraph, Ohanian said: «Reddit offers the opportunity for us, as humans, to connect on a much deeper, broader level because users have an alter ego and aren't tied to a social network of friends with whom they want to share how perfect their lives are.»

Hinge, a popular dating app that introduces users to friends of friends, says it's figured out which opening lines on a dating app land you a date the fastest — and which don't.

At the time, laxer privacy settings across Facebook meant Kogan had access to data from tens of millions more users after their friends had installed the app.

It's a great example of a truly viral product, one that spreads by providing a valuable service not only to the initial user but also to their friends, family and colleagues.

In December, Etsy unveiled social networking functions similar to those of Facebook that allow users to make friends with other Etsy members and keep track of their friends» favorite shops and purchases.

Snapchat announced today a new version of its app that allows users to opt out of the Find Friends feature — the cause of the breach.

Glassdoor.com, a website on which users can anonymously review their employers, offers a good barometer for employee sentiment at Zynga: Only 49 percent of reviewers say they would recommend working at Zynga to their friends, compared with 93 percent at Facebook and 84 percent at LinkedIn.

Demonstrating this feature, Kay showed an image of a text message thread in which an Allo user receives a friend's dog photo.

Facebook has always had a somewhat fraught relationship with the news: Many users seem to think of the social network as just a place where they can see a friend's baby or dog photos, but research shows a growing number of people also get their news there.

Workplace is similar to regular Facebook, but instead of connecting with friends and family, its users interact with co-workers.

Ufree allows users to share their availability and displays a list of friends who are currently available, nearby and ready to hang out in real - time.

Sponsored Stories is another type of ad unit, in which a user's interaction with a page (liking it, commenting on a post, checking in) becomes a promoted item in their friend's news feeds.

At the heart of the issue is that this data trap for 300,000 users led to the misuse of data from their friends and family on the social network, and — it must be said — the data trap worked.

The biggest innovation are its «Circles,» which allow users to tailor status updates and information to a varied group of contacts such as friends, co-workers and family.

But there was a larger issue at play: The quiz had also pulled data from the profiles of the 270,000 participants» friends, resulting in a trove of data from millions of users — as many as 50 million.

Here's how it works: When a user checks in, he or she can click on the new «I'm with...» button, scan a drop - down list of friends and then select the ones he or she is with at your business.

Zynga heavily advertises its games and then, as you know if you've ever played any of its titles, keeps trying to push users into drawing in their friends.

Spaces users will be able to see a live stream of comments from their friends watching them outside of the app from the core Facebook social networking service.

These include feeds from all friends, music, photos, games and specific lists of people or brands a user follows.

In one change earlier this year, Facebook (FB) said that it was going to de-emphasize articles from mainstream media sites in favor of posts from a user's friends and family.

Through effective use of sites such as Facebook and Twitter, brands can earn word - of - mouth advertising as users recommend their products or services to their friends and family.

Another difference between the new promoted posts and other types of Facebook advertising is that the new ads are non-social, so users do not need to have friends who like a particular product or brand in order to see updates from that page on their news feed.

Twitter (twtr), the popular social network which serves as a de facto news feed for many people, was not accessible to many users in Boston, parts of the New York Metro area, New Hampshire, and San Francisco, from approximately 8:15 a.m. through 8:38 a.m. EDT, according to an informal and completely unscientific survey of friends and family conducted on (gasp!)

Users can refer one of their matches to friends if they feel there may be potential for a connection, and can ask mutual friends on the app for a reference on the man or woman they are talking with to take some of the guesswork out of the proceedings.

Consider this: The average Facebook user, with just 190 friends, has over five million people in their extended network with just those third - degree connections (friends of friends of friends).

All of a sudden users now had connections and friends recommending content to them, instead of only finding content from conducting a specific search.

The system suggests resources to the user or to friends of the person such as a telephone help line.

One caveat: The new feature can only be used in Tinder mode, not Tinder Social — the app's other new feature that allows users to swipe along with a group of friends.

In this campaign, the fast - food company encouraged users to de-friend 10 of their Facebook friends in exchange for a coupon for a free Whopper.

The key appeal for many users in the early days was that Snapchat messages only went to a small group of friends, and that they disappeared within 10 seconds.

Friend was reportedly central to the development of Apple's healthcare frameworks, HealthKit, ResearchKit, and CareKit — frameworks designed to help researchers, developers, and users access and record health data.

According to a 2015 study that examined thousands of Facebook users, what you do on the social network — specifically what you choose to «like» — might paint a better picture of you than even your friends can.

The new features will enable users to choose to see streams of content that may feature nothing but photos or posts from their closest friends, family members or favourite businesses.