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11

Twitter Announces New Features For Sorting Followers’ Tweets

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Activity Stream, new features, New Twitter Features, Online Communities, social network, Stream, The Next Web, Trending and Popularity, Tweetdeck, twitter, Twitter New Features, Twitter New Tabs, User (computing) Leave a Comment

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Twitter is in the process of adding new features to its website that will helps you sort and view what users are saying about you and what is important to users within your network.

The changes are coming to the selection of tabbed streams (located under Twitter.com‘s tweet box), which let you isolate specific information from the main realtime tweet stream. Twitter will push more content to your @Mentions stream, which will now be called the @Username tab and will display your personal Twitter handle when it rolls out to your account. The site is also adding a new stream, which will live under a tab titled “Activity.”

Twitter to Add Parental Controls

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Application programming interface, facebook, Flickr, google, LinkedIn, Mass media, Not safe for work, Online Communities, Promoted Tweets, social media, social network, twitter Leave a Comment

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Twitter has added a way to flag links within tweets as “possibly sensitive.” The company announced late Thursday that there is a new field in the Twitter streaming API that will show up whenever a tweet contains a link, giving Twitter users the option to be warned before they click links that might be too sensitive for the workplace, or for tender ears and eyes.

The new feature is not functional yet, but Twitter was informing developers that it was just added and is now in the testing phase. According to Twitter representative Taylor Singletary, “In the future, we’ll have a family of additional API methods & fields for handling end-user ‘media settings’ and possibly sensitive content.”

According to Gizmodo, Twitter reps say the company doesn’t intend to censor material. But according to Twitter’s media policy document, the company will “remove media that might be considered sensitive such as nudity, violence, or medical procedures.”

Now Facebook Users Can Add ‘Expected: Child’ To Their Profiles

Category: Social, Technology Tags: BlackBerry Messenger, facebook, Facebook features, google, Google Profiles, Online Communities, skype, social network, Social network service, User profile 1 Comment

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Facebook users can now let their friends know when they are expecting a child, complete with due date and chosen baby name, the social networking blog Inside Facebook discovered Wednesday.

Users have been able to add family members with Facebook accounts to their profiles since December 2010, when Facebook last gave profile designs a major facelift. In February 2011 Facebook made further changes by inserting an option for a “civil union” and “domestic partnership,” and now they have added an “Expected: child” field as well.

Formspring Helps You Get To Know Your Friends–The Old Fashioned Way

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Ade Olonoh, Enrique Iglesias, facebook, Formspring, Margaret Cho, Online Communities, Quora, social network, Startup company, twitter Leave a Comment

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This post is part of a new series from HuffPostTech, Socialized, that will profile a different social startup–from apps to services to websites–every day. Want to be featured on the site? Email us about your startup, which should have a social media component and be less than two years old, at socialized@huffingtonpost.com.

Do you ever feel like you don’t know the “friends” you’ve amassed through your various social networking accounts? Wish there were an easier way to get to know them all? There’s a simple solution: just ask.

What it is: Part social network, part question-and-answer service, Formspring is designed to bring web-savvy people closer together by providing a platform that allows for more intimate interactions than you might find in blog comments or Facebook wall posts.

Facebook: What Gets People To Engage Journalists Online

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Buddy Media, Dan Zarrella, Engagement, facebook, Feedback, HubSpot, Journalist, Like, Online Communities, Social Networking, Wall Street Journal Leave a Comment

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Facebook has released data that addresses a question that has recently taken on fresh importance for journalists: How do you get “liked” on Facebook?

As part of a broader initiative aimed at encouraging reporters to use its service, Facebook has produced a report outlining what reporters can do to increase engagement on Facebook, measured in terms of “likes,” comments, and other feedback.

Facebook’s analysis of twenty-five Journalist Pages monitored over a two-week period offers social media insights that are relevant not only for reporters, but also for brands, businesses and individuals hoping to increase engagement with users on the social networking site.

Here are some highlights and tips based on Facebook’s data:

This g1rl must be Out of her Mind – Facebook scam spreading quickly

Category: Social, Technology Tags: buzz.com, clickjack, Confidence trick, facebook, Facebook features, google, Likejacking, Online Communities, social network, Web of trust, youtube Leave a Comment

In a continuance of a trend we have been seeing the last few weeks, a new Facebook scam using a sexually suggestive thumbnail is spreading like wildfire.

The scam is currently spreading on people’s walls using the title “This g1rl must be Out of her Mind but also a Genious for making This v1deo! – After they took her life away she decided to do genious revenge!” and “This woman must be really nuts but also a Genious for making This video! – They decided to ruin her life but she decided to hit them back!”

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