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The community-centered approach to Web3 — Aave founder and CEO
Aave founder and chief executive officer Stani Kulechov said the firm was continuing to develop its decentralized social media platform, with Web3 potentially changing the way many view ownership. Speaking to Cointelegraph at the Collision conference in Toronto on Thursday, Kulechov said Web3 — a buzzword often thrown around which generally describes the next evolution of an internet based on blockchain technology — could impact how people use social media in much the same way cryptocurrency changed perceptions on finance. The Aave CEO remarked how developers had adapted protocols to handle custody, and the rise in nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, seemed to point to a community-centered approach. “I think Web3 is quite a lot related to the concept of ownership,” said Kulechov. “As we have owne...
Twitter “Notes” Allows Writers To Basically Drop Blog Posts On The Platform
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Nope, we still can’t edit tweets after we hit send, BUT soon we can drop blog posts instead of being reduced to threads. Twitter Now Allowing Blog Posts On Wednesday (Jun.22), Twitter officially unveiled its latest feature, “Notes.” Essentially it will bring long-form writing to the social media platform because it encourages writers to publish their freeform content without worrying about character limits. “Notes” not being restricted to the usual 280-character limit allows writers to drop blog posts that can feature photos, videos, and other tweets inside of a Note. Writers can also share the Notes with their followers via tweets and on their Twitter profiles. In the tweet introduction, Twitter’s editorial director Rembert Browne exp...
Bootleg Tony Stark, AKA Elon Musk, Says He Wants Twitter To Be More Like TikTok & WeChat
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty The bored billionaire Elon Musk finally addressed Twitter employees since striking a $44 billion deal to purchase the social media company. Elon Musk Has The Answers, Allegedly During a Q&A session with employees on Thursday (Jun.16), Elon Musk shared his vision for the popular platform still struggling to make a profit. Musk has a plan to fix that, be like other social media platforms. Related Stories Musk drew comparisons to WeChat during the session with Twitter employees speaking on how to increase user base and engagement. “There’s no WeChat equivalent outside of China,” Musk pointed out. “There’s no WeChat equivalent outside of China.” Elon Musk also believes Twitter has to offer more to Twitter users and en...
Bootleg Tony Stark, AKA Elon Musk, Says He Wants Twitter To Be More Like TikTok & WeChat
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty The bored billionaire Elon Musk finally addressed Twitter employees since striking a $44 billion deal to purchase the social media company. Elon Musk Has The Answers, Allegedly During a Q&A session with employees on Thursday (Jun.16), Elon Musk shared his vision for the popular platform still struggling to make a profit. Musk has a plan to fix that, be like other social media platforms. Related Stories Musk drew comparisons to WeChat during the session with Twitter employees speaking on how to increase user base and engagement. “There’s no WeChat equivalent outside of China,” Musk pointed out. “There’s no WeChat equivalent outside of China.” Elon Musk also believes Twitter has to offer more to Twitter users and en...
Bootleg Tony Stark, AKA Elon Musk, Says He Wants Twitter To Be More Like TikTok & WeChat
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty The bored billionaire Elon Musk finally addressed Twitter employees since striking a $44 billion deal to purchase the social media company. Elon Musk Has The Answers, Allegedly During a Q&A session with employees on Thursday (Jun.16), Elon Musk shared his vision for the popular platform still struggling to make a profit. Musk has a plan to fix that, be like other social media platforms. Related Stories Musk drew comparisons to WeChat during the session with Twitter employees speaking on how to increase user base and engagement. “There’s no WeChat equivalent outside of China,” Musk pointed out. “There’s no WeChat equivalent outside of China.” Elon Musk also believes Twitter has to offer more to Twitter users and en...
Snapchat is Working on a Paid Version of the App
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4 Ways Smartphones Help Young Teens Learn Independence & Responsibility
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Yuga Labs co-founder prewarns possible attack, claims Twitter insider involved
Gordon Goner, pseudonymous co-founder of Yuga Labs, issued a warning about a possible incoming attack on their social media accounts under the Yuga Labs umbrella after receiving “credible information” that an insider from Twitter would help bypass the security of the accounts. Yuga Labs, home to some of the most popular nonfungible tokens (NFTs) including the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Otherside, proactively approached Twitter for security after receiving information about a soon-to-happen orchestrated attack on its social media accounts. We’ve received credible information that there may soon be an attack on our social media accounts, using an inside source at @Twitter to bypass our security. There are no surprise mints. Ever. — GordonGoner.eth (@GordonGoner) June 11, 2022 Soon ...
Social media blamed for $1B in crypto scam losses in 2021
The Federal Trade Commission has labeled social media and crypto a “combustible combination for fraud,” with nearly half of all crypto-related scams originating from social media platforms in 2021. Published on June 3, the report found that as much as $1 billion in crypto have been lost to scammers throughout the year, which was more than a five-fold increase from 2020, and nearly sixty times up from 2018. New analysis finds consumers reported losing more than $1 billion in #cryptocurrency to scams since 2021. Most of the losses consumers reported were to bogus cryptocurrency investment scams: https://t.co/MYGTcaw1aS #DataSpotlight /1 — FTC (@FTC) June 3, 2022 As of March 31, 2022, the amount of crypto lost was already approaching half of the 2021 figure, showing that momentum ...
Report: WhatsApp is Working on an Edit Message Button
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Twitter Shareholder Sues Elon Musk for Share Price ‘Manipulation’
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Mark Zuckerberg Says the Metaverse will Come Costly
Mark Zuckerberg visits Meta’s first ever retail shop. Image sourced from Facebook (Mark Zuckerbeg). Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders on Wednesday that the metaverse project will bleed a lot of money and that some products will not be ready for 15 years. According to Business Insider, the Meta CEO told shareholders that he spent $10-billion on the idea of a virtual world in 2021 alone. “We want to get the hardware to be as affordable as possible for everyone, and make sure the digital economy grows,” Zuckerberg said. Meta currently has 10,000 employees working on the metaverse and wants to hire an additional 10,000 to work on the project. The giant company also announced that it is holding up on hiring, so the plans to push this project forward might be delayed further. Zuckerberg re...
