• Facebook Takes Snapchat Feature “Streaks” for Messenger Users

    Facebook Takes Snapchat Feature “Streaks” for Messenger Users

    Facebook has been “borrowing” Snapchat features for a while now.  Whether that’s through Instagram, or doing it through their own platform.  Which is why it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that they’re doing it again.  This time, they are playing around with a feature for Messenger that’s an awful lot like Snatpchat streaks.  If…

  • Bloomberg Will Launch 24 Hour Social News Network on Twitter

    Bloomberg Will Launch 24 Hour Social News Network on Twitter

    Bloomberg’s new Twitter network is expected to launch on December 18.  Included with the launch are six founding partners: Goldman Sachs, Infiniti, TD Ameritrade, CA Technologies, AT&T and CME Group.  More are expected to join.  The average price point of these partnerships is anywhere from $1.5 million to $3 million.  Which gives Bloomberg an eight-figure…

  • You Can Now Lose Your Twitter Verification for Your Real Life Actions

    You Can Now Lose Your Twitter Verification for Your Real Life Actions

    A couple of weeks ago, we brought you a story about how Twitter had verified Jason Kessler.  Kessler is the white supremacist who helped organize the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia this past August.  This, rightfully so, made a lot of people angry.  To the public, it was like Twitter was endorsing Kessler…