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US consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole up to 341,650 social security numbers. The data breach was disclosed on…
When you join a new social network, you have zero friends, zero followers, zero likes. But as you start posting content, you might get more and…
A day after researchers unveiled X’s plans to test NSFW adult communities on the platform formerly known as Twitter, the company confirmed that community administrators can…
Anonymous social networking apps face another reckoning as UNC system bans Yik Yik, Fizz, Sidechat & Whisper
Anonymous social networking apps are in reporting mode. Yes, again. This week, University of North Carolina (UNC) System President Peter Hans announced a plan to block…
LoanDepot Says About 17 Million Customers Had Personal Data and Social Security Numbers Stolen During Cyber Attack
Nearly 17 million LoanDepot customers had sensitive personal information stolen, including Social Security numbers, in a ransomware attack in January, the company confirmed. The giant loan…
Reddit Downplays Risks of Developer Backlash, Decentralized Social Media in IPO Filing
Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is coming, it promises to be the biggest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the company S-1 filing, Reddit is failing to…
As Threads Undermines Politics, Bluesky CEO Shows Custom Feeds and User Choices on Social Media
Meta is in hot water after announcing plans to remove politics from its recommendations across Instagram and Threads, its new Twitter-like app for text-based posts. That…
The decentralized social network Farcaster is trying to reach mass adoption through Web 2.0 techniques
The web3 world has long hoped for a blockchain-based consumer application that could reach breakout speed, bringing crypto technology to the masses. Farcaster hopes that will…
The Twitterrific team is back with Tapestry, an app for social media monitoring, news, RSS and more
The iconostasisthe maker of a popular third-party Twitter client, Twitter awesome, which was among those killed off by Twitter under Elon Musk, is hoping to bounce…
Tim Schaecker, a TikTokers with 8.8 million followers and a member of the German boy band Elevator Boystoday officially launched a new social networking app in…