The Guardian is covering a 100+ internal training manuals, spreadsheets, and flowcharts that they’ve seen that Facebook has for training their editorial / censorship staff.
There’s plenty to learn from and think about. Once again, it’s shown how complex modern communications and discussions are, and how tricky it is to separate violent and abusive content from careless comments. Here’s a thought provoking example:
Mcrouter is an Open Source tool developed by Facebook for scaling up the memcached deployments:
Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached (http://memcached.org/) deployments. It’s a core component of cache infrastructure at Facebook and Instagram where mcrouter handles almost 5 billion requests per second at peak.
Here is a good overview of some of the scenarios where Mcrouter is useful. There’s more than one. Here are some of the features to get you started:
For a while now, whenever I post a new blog post to this site, and try to propagate it to my social network accounts, I get an error from Facebook – something about security and content policies this or that:
The automation broke a few month ago, but I never cared enough to do much about it. From then on, I don’t push all the posts to Facebook automatically, but a select few, with manual posting of the links.
Today, even the manual posting broke. I got this:
OK, I thought. Weird, but this happens. Gladly, the error message contains the link to let Facebook know about the problem. And so I do. Just to get to this point:
Now that’s not good. But then again what can I do? I guess it’s a good thing I still own all of my content and have my own place to publish it at.
Hopefully, this will get resolved all by itself soon. Or people will have only kitten pictures to look at…
Franz is a free messaging app which currently supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, Skype and many more. Download is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Back in 2013 I linked to some (not so) surprising facts about social media. Two years is a lot of time and a lot of things has changed since. So here comes 100 social media facts and statistics for 2015. These spread from general statistics to service-specific ones, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, and others. Unlike many other similar collections, this one actually links to sources for every single fact, and provides an easy one-click share to Twitter button. Here are a few to get you started: