Sentences with phrase «says social network user»

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Each social network has a «unique culture,» says Smith, and the best users embrace it rather than sharing identical content across platforms.

He didn't mention that the company will start asking for people's input — as TechCrunch said, it's a bit odd, since it's the users who are flooding the social network with fake news to begin with.

The social network is said to be concerned about Snapchat's rapid growth and the fact that it appeals to millennial users, while some metrics show that sharing and engagement on Facebook has fallen.

A tool called Baidu Post Bar it a bit like a social - networking application that allows users to tap other folks online for advice or comments as they are searching for, say, the best appliance to buy.

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.»

But it's clear she had the social network and possibly Google's (goog) ad business, which is based on detailed information about user habits, in mind when she said «we believe the data belongs to you.»

The world's largest social network said on Tuesday that it's now allowing Instagram users to share their GoPro action shots or a song they like on Spotify to their Instagram Stories.

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.

In June alone, U.S. Internet users spent about 22.7 percent of their online time on social networking sites, up from 15.8 percent just one year ago, the report said.

Like Instagram, Socialcam allows users to capture video on their phone, add a filter — say black and white, or sienna — and broadcast to their social networks.

Facebook Inc. said its customers» ads would now be visible on third - party apps and websites to everyone who has ever visited its website, and not just to users logged into its social networking service.

It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of users.

In the blog post, Facebook said the personal fundraising feature is an expansion of the social network's existing charitable giving feature that allows users to donate money to nonprofits.

In the latest example of this continuing trend, the social networking giant is said to be working on something similar to Snapchat Discover, the feature through which media partners such as CNN (twx) and BuzzFeed post their articles and videos for Snapchat users to browse.

Facebook will expand its pattern recognition software to other countries after successful tests in the U.S. to detect users with suicidal intent, the world's largest social media network said on Monday.

Not surprising, people aged 18 to 29 are the most likely to use Twitter, with 30 percent of internet users in that age group saying they use the popular social network, the report says.

DAUs (daily average users) are far more important and less of a GDPR concern for the social networks, but may also drop off a bit,» Barclays analysts said.

Since Twitter users are predominantly on the younger side, employment experts say companies that post all their job openings on the social networking site could be shunning job seekers over the age of 40.

More than half of Twitter users surveyed said they follow brands on the platform, and this group is three times more likely to follow a brand on Twitter than they are to follow a brand on Facebook or any other social network.

The social network has said it will investigate many third - party apps that have had access to large amounts of users information.

David Kershaw, chief executive of M&C Saatchi, said that users of the social network were unlikely to delete their accounts en masse and that pressure from advertisers would be more likely to trigger real privacy reform by Mark Zuckerberg.

Last week, the social networking platform said up to 87 million users could have been affected by the breach, significantly higher than an earlier media estimate of 50 million.

The social media network says the new feature will weed out comments meant to harass or bully its 800 million users.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.

«You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» Zuckerberg said in the signed ads, referring to the data analytics firm accused of misusing the social network's user information during the 2016 US election.

«I do think that we can do a better job of explaining how advertising works,» Zuckerberg said as he finished his response, but he did not explain that Facebook's ad system works by harnessing all the pieces of information from social network users.

A professor who studies algorithms and social networks says that YouTube's excuse for not moderating the section of its site that helps users discover new videos is «absurd.»

Facebook Inc. said it's making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting users» news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets — a transition that is likely to mean people spend less time on the site.

Part of the reason things changed in 2015 was because the social network figured out it was better for business to keep all that information about its millions of users in house, Vaidhyanathan said.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is suspending the Trump - affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, after learning that it failed to delete data that it had taken inappropriately from users of the social network, Facebook said late Friday.

He plans to build applications that will use data from Facebook to create temporary social networks, say at a conference or sporting event, to help users meet people who grew up in the same town or like the same band.

In pre-prepared comments, he told said that Facebook hasn't done enough to protect its users» privacy adequately and that the company has now taken full stock of the role the social network plays in democratic society given the scale of its reach and engagement.

At its start, Color said it would usher in a new era of location - based social networking, letting people share cellphone snapshots with other Color users nearby.

Facebook users say they are fed up with the giant social network's fake news problem.

In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said the social network «made mistakes» and vowed to prevent another disaster by auditing thousands of apps and reining in their access to user data.

Facebook said Wednesday it would give friends and family more prominence on user feeds, a move that may hurt media outlets that rely on the social network to draw readers.

The firm said the social network community will determine which outlets are reliable via the use of user surveys.

The social network said data on about 87 million users was grabbed when people completed a quiz hosted on the site.

All he divulged to Facebook, and to users in fine print, was that he was collecting information for academic purposes, the social network said.

Facebook is suspending the Trump - affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, after learning that it failed to delete data that it had taken inappropriately from users of the social network, Facebook said late Friday.

«Given users» need for collaborative privacy management, next - generation social networking platforms should consider built - in mechanisms to support group effort,» said Jia.

But he said it's possible that as the project expands to include other countries, they could also tap into other social networks such as Instagram, which boasts 300 million monthly users, and Weibo, a Chinese social media platform with nearly 200 million monthly users.

To help users identify true stories online, social media sites could label news pieces or media outlets with veracity scores — similar to how grocery stores and food producers offer nutrition facts, says study coauthor Sinan Aral, an expert on information diffusion in social networks at MIT.

Vaghefi said this unexpected finding could be explained from a «rational addiction» perspective, meaning some users are intentionally using more of a social network to maximize the perceived benefits of it.

«Clown, clown, clown, ugly, fat,» she says, describing jabs from social network users.

The site is a social network, co-founders Ken Zrike and Christopher Zrike said, but the goal is to get users away from their computer screens and into sports and other activities.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- Evite, an online party invitation and event planning service, expects to roll out a new version of its Web site on Monday and is considering adding social networking features, the president of the InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI) unit said... Evite has a few million users and aims to break even this year.

(AP)-- Business social network LinkedIn and online dating service eHarmony said Wednesday that some of their users» passwords were stolen and millions appear to have been leaked onto the Internet.

So we're actually getting a lot of requests from our current users saying, «Hey could you provide a social network for our non-profit or trade association or for the fans of our professional sports organization,» things like that.