I’ve managed Ahrefs’ social media accounts for nine months now—and it’s been a journey, from experimenting with content formats to figuring out what engages people the most. To keep things succinct, I’ll be focusing on our primary social media platform: Twitter. I’ll also make it clear now that I won’t cover my content creation process in […]
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Harry Maguire and Cristiano Ronaldo were among eight Manchester United players in the top 10 to receive abuse Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Maguire have received the most Twitter abuse of any Premier League players, a new report has found. Ofcom analysis of 2.3 million tweets in the first half of last season found
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Twitter is has a massive audience, making it a great platform for advertising products and services, or sharing your content. If you aren’t using Twitter to boost your brand, you’re seriously missing out. According to Statista, Twitter has amassed more than 330 million active monthly users. But there’s a better reason to build your brand
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It’s amazing how quickly the tide can shift on social media. Following the initial restrictions placed on US President Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more, in the wake of this week’s Capitol riots, Twitter has now aligned with Facebook in permanently suspending Trump’s account. At the same time, free-speech aligned platform Parler has been
But exactly how unhappy was the year? On Twitter, it was the most miserable in at least the last 12 years, according to Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth, who run the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont and use data from the site to measure our collective happiness. Since 2008, the duo has
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Separately, Google said Thursday it is adding its own precautions ahead of the election, including for any candidate prematurely declaring victory. Twitter’s expanded policies come as social media, more than ever, has become the central electoral information battlefield, as the coronavirus pandemic has drastically limited traditional rallies and door-to-door campaigning. The tech companies have heeded
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Twitter has labeled a tweet by White House director of social media Dan Scavino as “manipulated media” today. The original, unaltered video shows Harry Belafonte asleep in an interview with a local TV station. The video shared by Scavino replaces Belafonte’s face with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The Scavino video has been seen more
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Enlarge / A Twitter logo displayed on a smartphone. Twitter lost control of its internal systems to attackers who hijacked almost a dozen high-profile accounts, in a breach that raises serious concerns about the security of a platform that’s growing increasingly influential. The first signs of compromise occurred around 1pm California time when hijacked accounts—belonging
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Rep. Devin Nunes included Twitter in a defamation lawsuit in 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Rep. Devin Nunes can’t sue Twitter over tweets made by two parody accounts and a Republican strategist he accuses of defaming him, a Virginia judge has ruled. The satirical accounts he targeted as part of the lawsuit included a fake cow
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Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist and professor at McGill University in Montreal, has long studied online activism and hacker culture. She watched closely over the past several weeks as K-pop fans began to intervene in US social justice issues, and she sees definite parallels to Anonymous, the online hacker collective that originated on 4Chan. Like Anonymous,
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