Fake news spreads faster on Twitter
- Research shows that false information is six times more likely to be shared on the microblogging social website than genuine articles
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology looked into why ‘fake news’ is read by more people and found that it was due to the fact that it is ‘more novel’ stories
- Professor Sinan Aral from the MIT Sloan School of Management said that ‘people can gain attention by being the first to share previously unknown – but possibly false – information’
Snapchat pays Kylie Jenner to post pic
- Following the news that Snapchat lost $1.3billion after the famous Kardashian sister said she no longer used the app, top bods at Snapchat paid her to post a photo of her daughter
- It was a great move by both social media star, Kylie, and Snapchat to get people sharing selfies and snaps with their friends again
- At just a month old, Stormi, had her first experience of a Snapchat filter, after her mum posted a picture of the baby surrounded by flame emojis
Instagram and Snapchat are copying each other’s ideas to try and win people over
- As each app battle’s to win over its users, Instagram has leaked the idea of adding video calling to the app, which is something that Snapchat already offers
- Meanwhile, Snapchat has added user tagging to the app, which enables many people to be added to the Snap simply by including their @name handle
And in other news…
- The world woke up to the sad news today that renowned physicist, Stephen Hawking, has died at the age of 76. His musings both in the field of science and on the wider subject of humanity were profound. Twitter has commemorated the occasion by sharing some of his best-known thoughts in a Moment….
“We are all different – but we share the same human spirit.”
