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:
Here’s a recent infographic for 2017 with plenty of Instagram statistics. The two bits that I found interesting were:
Social Media Research Toolkit — a list of 50+ social media research tools curated by researchers at the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. The kit features tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies. Many tools are free to use and require little or no programming. Some are simple data collectors such as tweepy, a Python library for collecting Tweets, and others are a bit more robust, such as Netlytic, a multi-platform (Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram) data collector and analyzer, developed by our lab. All of the tools are confirmed available and operational.
Via Four short links: 14 Feb 2017.
I’m not considering a change of my Twitter account, as I’m using my surname all over the place and the only person it ever conflicts with is my brother. But I’ve heard of people trying to rename their accounts or re-brand their activity on Twitter, so I think is article – How to change your Twitter username – is useful.
Here’s a synopsis:
- create a new Twitter account with a @JunkName handle you don’t care about
- change your @OldName account to @NewName, keeping your followers and tweet history intact (releasing your @OldName into the wild)
- use the new Twitter account you made to quickly grab @OldName before anyone else has a chance to take it
One thing to note: Because of the way Twitter handles conversations, changing your username won’t retroactively change @mentions directed toward you from other people. This means that people you’ve conversed with will seemingly be talking to a ghost at @OldName instead of you at @NewName. Considering the “in-the-now” nature of Twitter this isn’t really a showstopper, just a mild inconvenience that’ll lessen over time.
One of the benefits of having your own blog is all the archives that are accumulated over time. Web services, platforms, and social networks come and go, and so does your content when you choose to use them. But with your own piece of the Internet, you get to keep it all.
It’s always interesting to see what I was into and what I was thinking like years ago. Especially when it comes to predictions and forecasting. Especially with the technology, which moves so fast.
Here is, for example, something that I shared 5 years ago (to the day): On how Google+ will succeed. Now that never happened. In fact, almost the opposite is happening:
Horowitz made a point to emphasize, once again, that Google+ isn’t going away. Instead, he reiterated that the company will be offering “a more focused Google+ experience.”
In other words, Google+ has a core set of users that really do enjoy using the service. “Google+ is quickly becoming a place where people engage around their shared interests, with the content and people who inspire them,” Horowitz said.
More specifically, Google plans to continue to offer new features in Google+ and move “features that aren’t essential to an interest-based social experience” into existing products.
This just tells you how “trustworthy” is my opinion on things…