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| Study Says Twitter Is Fastest-Growing Social Platform in the World | | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:28 PM | Anita Li |
| Twitter is now the fastest-growing social platform on the planet, beating Facebook and Google+ for the top spot, new research suggests. The number of active users on the microblogging service grew 40% from the second quarter to the fourth quarter of 2012 — equal to 288 million monthly active users, according to Global Web Index, a syndicated market-research service on web behavior and social media.
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| What Makes Vine So Hot? | | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:51 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It's the kind of moment that comes rarely, but tech journalists live for it: a service is launched with little fanfare and receives a sudden, energetic burst of genuine buzz. Developers start remixing it in all kinds of fascinating ways. It's supremely easy to use, and mobile, so we get hooked. The technology itself is not new, but it is presented in a new and interesting form.
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| SAG Awards Creep Into TV's Top 20 Social Shows of the Week | | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:25 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| It was fitting that the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony boosted its social media profile this year. One of the night's most popular bits basically rehashed a viral Facebook review of Les Misérables. This year's show experienced a nearly tenfold increase in social participation since 2012, garnering more than half a million mentions online.
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| 10 Ways Cinemagram Trumps Vine | | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 5:40 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Twitter's video-sharing Vine is the one of the top apps in Apple's App Store, but Cinemagram has other features you may be looking for.
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| Why You Can't Say Hashtag in France | | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:36 PM | Camille Bautista |
| French Twitter users are saying "au revoir" to the word "hashtag" in an effort to protect the French language from anglicisms. Instead, hashtag will be replaced with "mot-dièse," meaning "sharp word" in English. The change comes from the French government agency called the Commission Générale de Terminologie et de Néologie, which is responsible for promoting the French language.
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| Twitter 'Experimenting' With Vine Porn Censorship | | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:15 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Twitter has addressed the topic of six-second porn videos on its service Vine for a second time, admitting that it is "changing how users find and view sensitive content." On Monday, the company apologized for a "human error" that led to a pornographic video making its Editors' Picks list. The account responsible for that video, NSFWVine, now appears to be blocked on the service.
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| How to Halt a Facebook Hoax | | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:58 PM | Fran Berkman |
| The Internet can be a cruel and unforgiving place. Think about it, there are trolls, phishers and con artists lurking around almost ever corner. Scams and hoaxes everywhere. On occasion, social media propels one of these scams to viral fame. Facebook, as the grandaddy of social media, is a particularly fertile breeding ground for misinformation.
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