I’m starting to believe SocialCam is just a glorified phishing app infecting Facebook. The popular video-sharing app better close its privacy loopholes before people get turned off and never use it again… So, why you should turn it off »

When you click on any SocialCam link on Facebook and accept their app, every Socialcam video you watch from then on is shared to your Facebook friends automatically. […] The content can be questionable, the titles of the videos are often very salacious, and embarrassment can ensue with the images it posts on your timeline, all without any notice to you and your account.

The Facebook Offering

While it may not be quite as compelling as The Liz Lemon Hair Timeline, there’s certainly something engaging about this Facebook IPO Infographic. Namely, it that it shows Facebook surpassing Google in terms of value and likely being valued around $135 billion by the end of day on Friday. If that number doesn’t blow your mind you aren’t thinking about it hard enough.

Exactly. Another fact that can blow-your-mind: As the trading began, two of the top three search terms on Google Trends were “Facebook stock” and “Facebook IPO.”

Further reading: The Internet at the Dawn of Facebook

“Picture of a screen displaying logos of Facebook taken in Buenos Aires on May 10, 2012. Social-networking giant Facebook will go public on the NASDAQ May 18 with its initial public offering, trading under the symbol FB, in an effort to raise $10.6 billion.” via daylife.com

pleatedjeans:

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courtenaybird:

Why Twitter Is Bigger Than You Think 

“Here you can see that 11% of Americans 12+ (the gray slice) have not heard of Twitter, which means that 89% have. That is more than the percentage of Americans with online access (~86%), by the way, which gives you a pretty good yardstick for the ubiquity of Twitter.”

Though “Facebook has raked in billions and will make a splash when its stock hits the open market next week,” still folks on Wall Street are concerned about Mark Zuckerberg’s iconic hoodie. While odd analysts like Michael Pachter, an analyst for Wedbush Securities, thinks that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg might be a better product manager or designer than CEO, fellow bloggers suggests: “If hoodies mean billions of dollars, keep wearing them.”

(Source: CNN)

srdash:

Artists Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall want to broadcast your tweets to an alien planet. In their own words:

Simply add #tweetsinspace to your texts […] Our soon-to-be alien friends will receive unmediated thoughts and responses about politics, philosophy, pop culture, dinner, dancing cats and everything in between. By engaging the millions of voices in the Twitterverse and dispatching them into the larger Universe, Tweets in Space activates a potent conversation about communication and life that traverses beyond our borders or understanding. It is not just a public performance; it performs a public.

#tweetsinspace a live performance event expected to take place this fall, will broadcast Twitter messages to GJ667Cc - a planet 22 light-years away that scientists say may support life. Just choose to overlook these discussions on SETI, you can see your tweets, retweeted by aliens.

(Source: cool-tweets, via sameguyfromyesterday)

thenextweb:

Brazil has overtaken India as the second biggest country on Facebook, SocialBakers reports. According to the social media analytics firm, the country now has over 46m Facebook users, a 22% increase over the last three months: (via Brazil Now the Second Biggest Country on Facebook)

courtenaybird:

Sharing from Instagram to Twitter is now double what it was two months ago, and 20x what it was a year ago.

(via Royal Pingdom)

Make sure the questions you ask will interest the people you plan to invite to answer.

(Source: mykicks, via buysexual)

courtenaybird:

By the time network news broke into programming 21 minutes after Urbahn’s initial tweet, 80% of tweets discussing bin Laden’s death had been written as fact or in certain terms, according to the study.

“We believe Twitter was so quick to trust the rumors because of who sent the first few tweets… They came from reputable sources. It’s unlikely that a CBS News producer or a New York Times reporter would spread rumors of something so important and risk jeopardizing their reputation. Twitter saw their credentials and quickly believed the news was true.”

After the initial reports and confirmations, however, something interesting happened: Celebrities became the key connectors in spreading news about bin Laden’s death. Within a half-hour of the first television reports, a group of 100 “elite users,” including comedian Steve Martin and reality stars Kim Kardashian and Paul “DJ Pauly D” DelVecchio of MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” had surpassed the traditional media’s reach in spreading the news by Twitter.

Brains wired up by Twitter feeds!