RivalIQ.com published a very comprehensive report that takes a look at the social media industry at large. One of the deeper dives into the entire industry that you can access for free. From the article: Social Media Benchmark Key TakeawaysEngagement rates decreased on Instagram, stagnant on Facebook and Twitter The world’s most engaging social channel became a little less engaging this … [Read more...]
15 NFL teams have had their Twitter account hacked
Welcome to Super Bowl Week! It looks like 15 NFL teams have had their Twitter accounts hacked. @MySportsUpdate broke the news. Reading the last tweet from @packers it seems to be from Our Mine Hi, we're Back (OuَrMine).We are here to Show people that everything is hackableto improve your accounts securityContact us: contact@ourmine.orgFor security services visit: ourmine. orgFollow @OurM1ne … [Read more...]
Rat.com launches
A member on Namepros posted the launch of their new project on Rat.com. The service will charge users $2.99 a month for an ad free experience. Rat.com was conceived of by a group of developers who grew tired with the amount of trolls and fake profiles populating social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn today, themselves a broader extension of what many call "fake news". … [Read more...]
Emerging trends that have sparked cultural shifts
David Cohen wrote an interesting piece on AdWeek about data/trends related to Twitter. Twitter Reveals 18 Emerging Trends That Marked U.S. Cultural Shifts Since 2016 Cohen breaks down the billions of tweet data that Twitter unveiled. Why I think this can be useful for a domainer is it might help to show you where some naming themes you have been interested in, might be falling out of … [Read more...]
Hold up on that whole Twitter deleting inactive accounts
Yesterday Twitter announced they would be deleting inactive accounts. Today they said no so fast. So it turns out that this was really going to be EU centric on the deleting of accounts and now they need to come up with a plan to memorialize accounts before they will even start the process of deleting inactive accounts. … [Read more...]
So long Google +
Say goodbye to your Google+ account. I know you probably did that a long time ago but Google is making it official. Note this Google+ for consumers only. I never really got into Google+ and I do spend a lot of time on social media. I just never thought it was clever, cool or made much sense. Google just seemed like they created something so they could say we are social too. On their blog … [Read more...]
Social Media companies on notice in Germany as new legislation passes
Back in March we wrote about a proposed German law to fine social media companies that did not remove hate speech. The New York Times reported that the law has passed and things are about to get tricky for social media companies doing business in Germany. There is plenty of speech that is obviously wrong to any reasonable person, but there might be some instances where things are gray. That … [Read more...]
