Twitter will let users send and receive tips using Bitcoin as part of a broader push to help users make money from the service. From a report: Twitter also said Thursday that it’s looking into authenticating users’ nonfungible tokens — digital goods r…
Twitter To Pay $809.5 Million To Settle 2016 Lawsuit Over Growth Projections
Twitter on Monday said it has agreed to pay $809.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the social network of violating securities laws by misleading investors about its prospects for growth. CNET reports: The settlement stems from a 2…
Study finds half of Americans get news on social media, but percentage has dropped
A new report from Pew Research finds that around a third of U.S. adults continue to get their news regularly from Facebook, though the exact percentage has slipped from 36% in 2020 to 31% in 2021. This drop reflects an overall slight decline in the number of Americans who say they get their news from […]
Concrete Thinking
“What’s the most underrated material in the modern world? How about CONCRETE?
Often dismissed as boring, ugly & inert. Concrete is actually surprising, dynamic & incredibly complex. With that in mind here are a few reasons why we need to start …
Twitter Super Follows has generated only around $6K+ in its first two weeks
Twitter’s creator platform Super Follows is off to an inauspicious start, having contributed to somewhere around $6,000 in U.S. iOS revenue in the first two weeks the feature has been live, according to app intelligence data provided by Sensor Tower. And it’s made only around $600 or so in Canada. A small portion of that […]
What’s the smallest amount you can spend for a million of something?
An ongoing twitter thread exploring the lowest it’s possible to spend to get a million of something.
“Manufactured products only, must be ordered by specific quantity written on the pack or in singles (‘pack of 10’). Must not be ordered by volume (‘m…
I could be anymeme you like
I can be brown, I can be blue, I can be violet sky… (sltwitter)
Twitter、ボットが投稿するアカウントへのラベル付けをテスト
headless 曰く、Twitter は 10 日、ボットアカウントに自動化された投稿であることを示すラベルを付けるテストの開始を発表した(Twitter Support のツイート、 Twitter のヘルプ記事、 Mashable の記事、 Twitter Safety のツイート)。
ラベルはアカウント情報に表示される「Automated by [@ユーザー名]」というものと、投稿に表示される「Automated」というものがあるようだ。現在のところボットアカウントを運用するユーザーの一部…
人の言葉を真似するニオイガモ、録音から 30 年以上経って分析される
オーストラリアに生息するカモの一種、ニオイガモ (Biziura lobata) が声真似をするという研究成果が発表された (ライデン大学のニュース記事、 論文、 Ars Technica の記事、 The Guardian の記事)。
鳥類には声真似をする種も多いが、これまで知られていたのはスズメ目・オウム目・アマツバメ目に限られており、カモ目の鳥による声真似が確認されたのは初めてだといいう。今回分析されたのは 1987 年と 2000 年にオーストラリア・キャンベラのティドビンビラ自然保護区で…
thoughts.page
thoughts.page is a platform for hosting a small webpage for your thoughts. it’s basically like twitter, but nobody can @ you. [via mefi projects]