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| Twitter Now Reducing Some Tweets To 117 Characters | | If you’re tweeting out a URL, your tweets just got a bit shorter. Starting Wednesday, any tweet sent with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters, or 117 for https links. First announced in December, the reduction is due to a change in Twitter’s t.co link wrapper. It extends the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters for non-https URLs and from 21 to 23 characters for https URLs.
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| Oscilloscope Labs Shares Latest Film on Vine — 6 Seconds at a Time | | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 5:48 PM | Emily Price |
| Oscilloscope Labs’ newest film, It’s a Disaster, made its web debut Tuesday on Vine. "From the moment it launched just three short weeks ago, it was so clear to us that six-second loops of video, edited in-phone, and posted in real time was and will be the future of film distribution," Oscilloscope's Bruce Farnsworth said in a press release announcing the move.
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| MTV and BET Hack Their Own Twitter Accounts | | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:47 PM | Christina Warren |
| Taking a cue from real Twitter account hacks, MTV and BET partook in some viral marketing Tuesday — by "hacking" each others' accounts. The Twitter accounts from the two Viacom-owned cable channels, MTV and BET appeared as if they were hacked Tuesday. The music brands essentially switched identities and unleashed a stream of friendly digs at each other.
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| Facebook Influences Your Mood More Than Any Social Network | | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:15 PM | Camille Bautista |
| With the amount of time people spend on Facebook, it's bound to have an impact. The social network permeates nearly every aspect of our lives: making us less lonely, more envious or affecting our memory. A new study shows you're not the only one Facebook's taking on an emotional roller coaster. The survey says the site causes the most stress but also elicits the most positive effect on mood compared to other social networks.
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| Jeep Twitter Account Hacked, Claims Sale to Cadillac | | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:01 PM | Emily Price |
| Jeep’s official Twitter account was hacked Tuesday morning by what appears to be the same group who attacked Burger King on Monday: @DFNTSC. The background on Jeep’s official Twitter page has been changed to some gentleman riding around in a McDonald’s vehicle, and the account’s description claims it has been sold to Cadillac. An attack on Burger King's Twitter account Monday suggested the restaurant chain had been sold to McDonald's.
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| The Future of Facebook as a Social Content Farm | | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:34 PM | The Daily Dot |
| In the lofty idealism of Facebook, the world's largest social network fosters basic human connections. It keeps you in touch with the people you care about. The number of friends you boast on Facebook is a direct measure of the richness of your social life. "Chairs are for people," proclaims one earnest ad, "and that is why chairs are like Facebook." Now, the company rhetoric, always tenuously connected to reality, is verging on fantasy.
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