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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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Twitter is launching a Spaces accelerator program to pay live audio creators

The Verge

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it plans to support Twitter Spaces creators through a new three-month accelerator program called the Twitter Spaces Spark Program. Twitter’s plans follow a similar creator three-month program that Clubhouse launched in March 2021. Have 5,000 or more “active followers”.

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Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs. Thursday, June 09, 2011.

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Australia takes the wrong path on Twitter advertising disclosure

Trends in the Living Networks

This followed the announcement on ABC’s MediaWatch program that celebrity chef Matt Moran, among others, had accepted payment from South Australia’s Tourism Board for tweets. If advertisers want to use social media to get their messages across, that’s OK – users have many ways to deal with that.

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Twitter Fined $150 Million for Misuse of 2FA User Data

SecureWorld News

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Instagram head Adam Mosseri stops in Seattle to discuss safety and protection for younger users

GeekWire

Panelists at an event for parenting-focused influencers hosted by Meta in Seattle, from left: Dana Geldwert, panel moderator and Instagram’s head of Global Policy Programs; Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart, pediatric psychologist; and Instagram head Adam Mosseri. In May, the U.S.

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Gen AI: The software developer’s new best friend

CIO Business Intelligence

For Geoffrey Bourne, cofounder of Ayrshare (“airshare”), a New York-based startup that automates and manages social sharing for corporate clients, it’s using what’s called regular expressions—tools used in virtually every programming language to identify patterns of text. About 30% of the time, it’s spot-on,” says Bourne.

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