Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019 In a year-end retrospective released this morning, Reddit says its user base grew 30% this year to reach 430 million monthly active users, as of the end of October. Its users also contributed 199 million posts, 1.7 billion comments, and 32 billion upvotes, the company […]
Then It Realized Some of Them Belong to People We Want to Remember In a reversal, the social media network says it will pause its plan until it figures out how to memorialize deceased users’ accounts. As a policy, it seems like a no brainer. Twitter had announced plans to notify dormant account holders that if they […]
This Year’s Best Christmas Adverts in the United Kingdom A year ago, I put a lump of coal in the stocking of John Lewis & Partners, a chain of high-end department stores that operate throughout the United Kingdom, for creating its 2018 Christmas advert, “The Boy and The Piano.” If you are curious about why […]
The 5 Best Twitter Tools to Increase Your Followers As a micro-blogging platform where posts are limited to 280 characters, Twitter’s approach of using brevity sets it apart from the other social media giants like Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Twitter is a place for brief thoughts, and even when the social network doubled the character limit of […]
KEY POINTS Reddit will allow the alleged Ukraine whistleblower’s name to the surface, Reddit is allowing the name of the purported Ukraine whistleblower to remain on its site, though it does not have a “specific policy” on the subject, according to a spokesperson. Twitter also said it would not remove references to the name of […]
