A new social network started up six months ago and began picking up speed last week as it echoes the early days of Twitter. It’s called Mastodon and was born out of frustration with changes being made on Twitter, according to an interview with founder Eugen Rochko in The Verge.…
Most reasonable people are aware that if you publicly publish something defamatory about someone else that is false, you can be sued for libel. If you lose the legal case, it can be expensive for you in terms of damage to your reputation as well as a financial cost. (Related: the difference between…
Facebook and Twitter are no longer simply text platforms but mobile video channels battling to turn consumers away from TV
I remember when blogging first captured the attention and imaginations of early adopters and online adventurers in the early part of this century, not long after the dot-com bubble burst. It was a time of discovery, learning new things and being part of something that was a great equalizer. For…
Reports emerged late last week that Twitter is deleting tweets that copy another tweeter’s jokes. The Verge reports on a writer’s request to Twitter to remove a tweet that used her content (a joke) without permission and thus infringed her intellectual property rights: I simply explained to Twitter that as…
Slowing growth in user numbers and failure to capture a bigger slice of digital advertising revenue drove the departure of the chief executive
I remember when I first started hearing about Twitter, in the summer of 2006 less than six months after the service started earlier that year. As the year progressed, the name kept popping up in blog posts and comments – what social media was, really, back then – until I…
It started with one tweet. @jangles Hi Neville, we were wondering if there’s an email address we can reach you on? — Becky @ Nudjed (@BeckyAtNudjed) October 2, 2014 I bet you get requests like this from PR folk, too. To be frank, I rarely reply any longer as 1)…
