Facebook’s Instagram video announcement last week went a long way in hurting its chief competitor Vine, a new study has shown. According to data compiled by Marketing Land using Topsy, a tool designed to analyze social media shares, the number of links shared on Twitter to Vine videos fell off a cliff after Instagram’s new video-recording feature was announced on June 20. And since then, things have remained quiet for Vine
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Read MoreIn an effort to appease its advertisers, Facebook plans to more aggressively remove ads from Pages and Groups that host content of a violent, graphic, or sexual nature, the social network said Friday. The change, which will start as a manual review process and become automated over time, means the social network will actively restrict ads from appearing on the right-hand side of Groups and Pages, such as those selling adult products. “While we already have rigorous review and removal policies for content against our terms, we recognize we need to do more to prevent situations where ads are displayed alongside controversial Pages and Groups.
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Read MoreAfter a few snack-related distractions, we’ll get to today’s headline story about Grinders: a subculture of hackers that alter their bodies for digital enhancement, and one guy in particular that surgically implanted magnets in his ear to create invisible headphones. Leaked from today’s 404 episode: – Miracle Berry tablets make sour food taste sweet.
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