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Daily Crunch: Twitter tests ephemeral Fleets

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 NewsEditorDaily Crunch, twitter

Twitter tries out its own version of the popular Stories format, a court orders Otto’s founder to pay a big fine to Google and electric skateboard company Boosted makes cuts. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 5, 2020. 1. Twitter starts testing its own version of Stories, called ‘Fleets,’ which disappear after 24 hours Twitter is testing a new sharing format called “Fleets,” starting in Brazil, which will let users post ephemeral content to its social network for the first time. Unlike Tweets, Twitter’s new Fleets can’t receive Likes, Replies…

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he is thinking about quitting social media

March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 NewsEditorIndia, instagram, Narendra Modi, twitter

Another major figure could soon join the list of a growing number of people who are done with social media: The leader of the world’s largest democracy. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted Monday evening (local time) that he was thinking about giving up on his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts. Modi, whose 53 million followers on Twitter make him one of the most popular figures on the microblogging social network, did not offer any rationale for his thinking. On his Facebook page, he has more than 44 million…

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Comedian/Activist Legally Changes Name to Hugo Boss to Take on Fashion House

March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 NewsEditorComedy, Fashion, Language, Law, Protest, twitter

When the comedian, formerly known as Joe Lycett, heard that fashion house Hugo Boss was sending cease and desist letters to charities and small businesses who were using the word ‘BOSS’ in their name, he turned his outrage into action. It’s clear that @HUGOBOSS HATES people using their name. Unfortunately for them this week I legally changed my name by deed poll and I am now officially known as Hugo Boss. All future statements from me are not from Joe Lycett but from Hugo Boss. Enjoy. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/IlDoCrfmaO — Hugo…

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Cross-border investments arent dead, theyre getting smarter

February 1, 2020February 1, 2020 NewsEditorasia, Baidu, China, European Union, Facebook, Panasonic, stripe, twitter

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Woman Tweets Her Genius Potato Necklace Remedy For Her Sons 102.3 Fever & People Online Are Facepalming

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 NewsEditor102 to 98 fever, 700-page, draw out fever, drop fever, facepalm, Grandma, granny, homeopathy, Mom, potato necklace, reduce fever, twitter, unvonventional medicine, viral, woman

Getting sick is scary. Especially if there is something that never used to happen, or something that happens rarely, but feels different, it immediately sends alerts to our brains. You know what else is scary? Hospitals. However, while getting sick is genuinely scary because it can mean death in certain cases, hospitals are places of healing, and the only scary things about them are the needles and other procedures we need to endure in order to get well. So, it is no surprise that some people try everything (or anything)…