Labour has faced crises before, but this is uncharted territory September 18, 2018 After a summer of turbulence, the Labour party conference will get underway in Liverpool next week. The stories swirling around the run-up centre on the current maelstrom of fanatical support for Jeremy Corbyn, the increasing despondence of moderate MPs, accusations of antisemitism at the heart of the party, all against a backdrop of online discussion [...]
September 17, 2018 To paraphrase Game of Thrones, the internet is dark and full of terrors. We’re all aware of issues on the web: the proliferation of hate speech, fake news, offensive content, easy access to pornography or violent images, even terrorist propaganda. For individuals wanting to safely navigate the online world, it’s easy to avoid the darker [...]
Fiddling while America burns? Trump is today’s emperor Nero September 17, 2018 America was ablaze this summer. At one point in August, there were more than a hundred major active wildfires burning, as global temperatures soared to record highs. Meanwhile, the US President was rolling back climate regulations and undermining international efforts to slow down global warming. Donald Trump, claimed former Obama adviser David Axelrod, “is literally [...]
Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: What does your favourite social network say about you? September 3, 2015 Linkedin lover or addicted to Twitter? What social network you spend most of your time on reveals more than you might think about your gender, age and even social grade. Polling institute Ipsos Mori has released its latest quarterly Tech Tracker, which analyses how Britons access the internet (short answer: everywhere and a lot). Alongside [...]
FriendlyScore: This FinTech startup can analyse social media activity to prove creditworthiness August 26, 2015 When you're sharing a selfie at dinner or updating LinkedIn with your latest promotion, you're giving away more than you might think. A London-based startup has taken the huge amount of data we share every day on social media to come up with a way of assessing whether we can be trusted with a loan or [...]
Black Monday: Tech stocks nosedive with Netflix share price leading the plunge, and Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google following August 24, 2015 Tech stocks are taking a severe beating as US markets join today’s global stock market rout, with Netflix down over 11 per cent. The US’s tech-heavy Nasdaq index opened over four per cent down, following huge falls in both Asia and Europe amid investors’ fears that China’s slowing economy would lead a global slowdown. Media [...]
Twitter shuts down Politwoops, tool archiving tweets deleted by politicians August 24, 2015 Politicians can breathe a sigh of relief: Twitter just shut down Politwoops, a tool bringing politicians’ deleted tweets to light. Politwoops pulled together deleted tweets for politicians from 30 countries around the world, but Twitter has now changed its API, suspending access for the tool. The site has been aiming to get rid of the [...]
Facebook, Twitter and other social media is changing the way we communicate during natural disasters August 21, 2015 Where do you first hear news of a disaster? These days, it’s likely to be through a Facebook post or a tweet. Facebook and Twitter have become such a central part of our lives that the platforms are actually changing the way we react to natural disasters, according to a study published in the International [...]
How do you use social media? One in three use WhatsApp, Snapchat and other mobile messaging apps August 21, 2015 One in three smartphone owners use messaging apps like WhatsApp, according to a new social media study released today. Among young people, this shoots up further to one in two. In Pew Research Center’s latest report, the institute has broken out messaging apps for the first time, asking about them as something separate from texting [...]
Twitter’s share price is tanking: Stock swoops below $26 IPO price August 20, 2015 The rapidly declining share price of Twitter has swooped lower than its IPO price of $26 – a new nadir for the troubled social network. Twitter shares have fallen by more than six per cent in early afternoon trading, sending stock as low as $25.94 per share, and tumbling past the marker which signals the [...]