A History of Drunk Texting
She didn’t set out to make When I Think About You I Text Myself into a black hole for typed-out feelings, but now that it...
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Meet the Biggest Fans of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
The replies to Collins’ tweet were full of suspicion. These had to be spam, or bots gravitating toward any video with sufficient engagement, or an...
How to Skip All of a Person’s Instagram Stories in One Swoop
Screenshot: David Murphy I’ve been doing Instagram all wrong. Hear me out. Whenever I’m killing time, browsing through my friends’ many Instagram stories, I will...
Twinfluencers Are Taking Over the Internet
Part of this is sheer numbers: There are more twins today than at any other time in history. According to a report by the National...
Instagram Accounts Are Exploiting the Sudan Crisis
Sudan has been ravaged by violence since its former president, Omar al-Bashir, was ousted in a military coup in April. On June 3, the conflict...
The World’s First Blockchain & Crypto Stamp Presented in Austria
Jun 12, 2019 at 13:15 // News The Austrian Post has presented the world’s first special cryptocurrency and blockchain stamp. The groundbreaking special block links...
Why the Slowed-Down Pelosi Video Isn’t Fake to Facebook
These sorts of events are insidious because it’s hard to craft a response that isn’t a bad one. Talking about the video just gives its...
Instagram Memers Are Unionizing – The Atlantic
Memers aren’t direct employees of these tech platforms, nor are they independent contractors for them. But they produce, directly or indirectly, the bulk of these...
What Are Instagram Class Accounts?
Yet all the teenagers I spoke to said that they couldn’t imagine a Facebook version of class pages. In fact, several said they’d signed up...
Instagram Is Full of Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
By Monday, there were five videos of the Christchurch attack posted by meme pages in my feed. Four of them are still up, and on...
#FuckFuckJerry and the Limits of Extremely Online Organizing
#FuckFuckJerry’s villain was unlikable. The downside to unfollowing was tiny. The entreaties powering the boycott were funny and well-done. Celebrities with major followings got on...
Jeff Bezos Accuses the National Enquirer of Extortion
Read: Why is the National Enquirer so obsessed with Jeff Bezos? It was this email that motivated Bezos to publish the correspondence. On Wednesday, he...
Jeff Bezos Blogs on Medium Now
Inseparable from this too-much-too-muchness is Bezos’s writing style. Though Bezos employs (through The Washington Post) some of the best editors in journalism, he appears to...
The Art of Being an Instagram Husband
Though people have almost always relied on other people to take photos of themselves, Instagram and influencer culture has transformed that duty into a near-full-time...
Young Artists and Producers Embrace Micro-Monetizing
Read: Twitter should kill the retweet Alex Loyalty, a hip-hop-artist manager, brand consultant, and co-owner of Inzei Records, has worked with people who have used...