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Twitter now supporting payments to support your favourite Tweet makers. ...
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The audio-only, iOS-only social network Clubhouse has announced that it will allow fans to support their favourite content creators by paying them directly through the app. With live audio discussions, it has been an open question of how Clubhouse will make money and that question remains with Clubhouse confirming...
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Over the weekend, Alon Gal, the CTO at Hudson Rock & running Under The Breach reveled that details from a 2019 Facebook hack have now been leaked online for free. At the time the hack occurred, it was concerning that the massive dataset of more than 533,00,000 Facebook users...
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This week the Australian Government had been doing victory dances after Google started making deals with Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment. Today, the MediaCode legislation story changed dramatically for the worse, with Facebook taking the nuclear option to ‘restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and...
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This thing is addictive. You have been warned. ...
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Instagram is the place where you go to look at photos from your favourite celebrities, brands, locations or events right? With an audience of more than 1 billion active users per month, it seems Instagram is pushing hard into sales on the platform. Recently an update provided a refresh...
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In 2020, most businesses have their social media profile sorted, regularly posting to their followers who happily share their content to friends, family and contacts for free. Overnight Facebook provided an update to their response to the Australian Government’s proposed media laws. These new laws would see international companies...
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Well it seems like Aussies are really loving TikTok. The company has announced that following a surge in popularity in Australia, TikTok are adding an office in Sydney. TikTok has developed a thriving and diverse community in Australia by offering a truly unique home for creative expression combined with...
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Facebook-owned Instagram is the centre of some new controversy over the issue of embedding posts from the service on a news website. As reported by Ars Technica, Newsweek used a photograph taken by professional photographer Elliot McGucken. He captured a lake in Death Valley full of water when it’s...
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As you go about Facebook, you have the ability to leave comments, or as many do, simply a reaction to the content in your feed. What started as a Like button, has now expanded to a range of reactions including Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry. Apparently Facebook didn’t...
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Each year, Cloud-communication platform Twilio releases a State of Customer Engagement report, which reveals industry trends, powered by their platform that supports nearly 800 billion human interactions each ear. The five biggest trends in communications from 2019 are: Consumers want real conversations Conversational AI is everywhere Robocalls kill trust...
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UpdateTweetdeck is now back, however, Twitter has not provided any detail on the outage. Given the significant outage in the service, that indicates the level of commitment they have for power users. TweetDeck is not available right now. For the past few hours, users of Twitter’s multi-column Twitter interface...
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If you’re holding an event for your business, band, charity or community group, chances are you’ve heard of Eventbrite. While the platform has long offered event creators the ability to promote events through social media, they just got a big boost through new Facebook functionality. A new feature on...
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TikTok is the most interesting social network right now. The creativity on that platform is second to none. The potent combination short videos, with effects and music clips, seen it become one of the world’s most downloaded apps in 2018. Over the past few months there’s been an increase...
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Scott Morrison, Australia’s Prime Minister just joined Snapchat. Ahead of a federal election, I have no doubt the decision to join and then recruit new followers by using his existing social platforms (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), was on the advice from a media advisor that it’s good for his...
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This afternoon, the Managing Director of Australia’s 5th largest NBN retail service provider (Aussie Broadband), Phil Britt jumped on Reddit for an AMA. The AMA has attracted 3,600 votes and received a very healthy 828 comments. While not all were answered, Britt did a good job at getting to...
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If you’re a social person who wants to stream online, chances are you’ve tried Periscope, but maybe it didn’t have the multi-person video function you wanted. Well with their latest update, Periscope users can add up to 3 guests in a live stream. Just click an icon that displays...
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Netflix have announced they are making it possible to share your favourite Netflix shows to Instagram Stories, and help your friends, family and followers discover something new to watch. With Netflix’s latest mobile app update, you will have the ability to share your latest Netflix binge favourite to Instagram...
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Facebook are rolling out Messenger 4, starting today and will roll out globally over the coming weeks. The updated interface is simplified in response to a recent study that found 71% of people told Facebook, simplicity is their top priority. Making changes to Messenger is not a simple process,...
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This morning many of us woke to news of a Facebook security breach. Zuckerberg has done the now standard post to his timeline on Facebook to explain the drama. The issue occurred on Tuesday (US time), when they discovered an attacker had exploited a technical vulnerability in the ‘View...
Twitter now supporting payments to support your favourite Tweet makers. ...
The audio-only, iOS-only social network Clubhouse has announced that it will allow fans to support their favourite content creators by paying them directly through the app. With live audio discussions, it has been an open question of how Clubhouse will make money and that question remains with Clubhouse confirming...
Over the weekend, Alon Gal, the CTO at Hudson Rock & running Under The Breach reveled that details from a 2019 Facebook hack have now been leaked online for free. At the time the hack occurred, it was concerning that the massive dataset of more than 533,00,000 Facebook users...
This week the Australian Government had been doing victory dances after Google started making deals with Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment. Today, the MediaCode legislation story changed dramatically for the worse, with Facebook taking the nuclear option to ‘restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and...
This thing is addictive. You have been warned. ...
Instagram is the place where you go to look at photos from your favourite celebrities, brands, locations or events right? With an audience of more than 1 billion active users per month, it seems Instagram is pushing hard into sales on the platform. Recently an update provided a refresh...
In 2020, most businesses have their social media profile sorted, regularly posting to their followers who happily share their content to friends, family and contacts for free. Overnight Facebook provided an update to their response to the Australian Government’s proposed media laws. These new laws would see international companies...
Well it seems like Aussies are really loving TikTok. The company has announced that following a surge in popularity in Australia, TikTok are adding an office in Sydney. TikTok has developed a thriving and diverse community in Australia by offering a truly unique home for creative expression combined with...
Facebook-owned Instagram is the centre of some new controversy over the issue of embedding posts from the service on a news website. As reported by Ars Technica, Newsweek used a photograph taken by professional photographer Elliot McGucken. He captured a lake in Death Valley full of water when it’s...
As you go about Facebook, you have the ability to leave comments, or as many do, simply a reaction to the content in your feed. What started as a Like button, has now expanded to a range of reactions including Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry. Apparently Facebook didn’t...
Each year, Cloud-communication platform Twilio releases a State of Customer Engagement report, which reveals industry trends, powered by their platform that supports nearly 800 billion human interactions each ear. The five biggest trends in communications from 2019 are: Consumers want real conversations Conversational AI is everywhere Robocalls kill trust...
UpdateTweetdeck is now back, however, Twitter has not provided any detail on the outage. Given the significant outage in the service, that indicates the level of commitment they have for power users. TweetDeck is not available right now. For the past few hours, users of Twitter’s multi-column Twitter interface...
If you’re holding an event for your business, band, charity or community group, chances are you’ve heard of Eventbrite. While the platform has long offered event creators the ability to promote events through social media, they just got a big boost through new Facebook functionality. A new feature on...
TikTok is the most interesting social network right now. The creativity on that platform is second to none. The potent combination short videos, with effects and music clips, seen it become one of the world’s most downloaded apps in 2018. Over the past few months there’s been an increase...
Scott Morrison, Australia’s Prime Minister just joined Snapchat. Ahead of a federal election, I have no doubt the decision to join and then recruit new followers by using his existing social platforms (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), was on the advice from a media advisor that it’s good for his...
This afternoon, the Managing Director of Australia’s 5th largest NBN retail service provider (Aussie Broadband), Phil Britt jumped on Reddit for an AMA. The AMA has attracted 3,600 votes and received a very healthy 828 comments. While not all were answered, Britt did a good job at getting to...
If you’re a social person who wants to stream online, chances are you’ve tried Periscope, but maybe it didn’t have the multi-person video function you wanted. Well with their latest update, Periscope users can add up to 3 guests in a live stream. Just click an icon that displays...
Netflix have announced they are making it possible to share your favourite Netflix shows to Instagram Stories, and help your friends, family and followers discover something new to watch. With Netflix’s latest mobile app update, you will have the ability to share your latest Netflix binge favourite to Instagram...
Facebook are rolling out Messenger 4, starting today and will roll out globally over the coming weeks. The updated interface is simplified in response to a recent study that found 71% of people told Facebook, simplicity is their top priority. Making changes to Messenger is not a simple process,...
This morning many of us woke to news of a Facebook security breach. Zuckerberg has done the now standard post to his timeline on Facebook to explain the drama. The issue occurred on Tuesday (US time), when they discovered an attacker had exploited a technical vulnerability in the ‘View...
