Turns out some groups axed by Facebook for content violations were actually hacked
A Reddit thread on Wednesday called attention to many Facebook Groups’ privacy settings being changed to “secret.” The post generated...
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Twitter takes aggressive steps to curb spam & bot activity by blocking identical actions across
Twitter made substantial changes today that will greatly impact social media managers who oversee multiple accounts and use automation...
Why hacking social media algorithms is a losing strategy
Thousands of years of evolution have not dulled this impulse, and much good has come of it. The huge leaps in technology, as well as the...
Facebook’s fight against spam and clickbait and what it means for advertisers
It is no secret Facebook has made many changes over the past few months to eliminate low-quality content from its News Feed. At first,...
Will Twitter address its harassment issue?
This morning, BuzzFeed came out with a scathing report about how Twitter has operated as a platform that enables stalking, harassment and...
Why The New LinkedIn Group Changes Are A Community Manager’s Worst Nightmare
scyther5 / Shutterstock.com A little less than a month ago, LinkedIn announced it would make a round of changes to its Groups platform —...
How To ID A Twitter Bot Account? It’s All In The Timing, Study Says
Aldo Faisal and Gabriela Tavares, two researchers from Imperial College London, studied more than 160,000 tweets from personal Twitter...
Thwart Social Media Crises With Brand New Hootsuite Security Suite Social Tool
number of recent hacks, social media security has been one of the hottest topics in social. The popular social media management platform...
Twitter Reaches Spam Lawsuit Settlement With Tweet Adder
five companies that Twitter sued last year, accusing them of making tools that spread spam across its service. As AllThingsD first...
Planning A Pinterest Contest? Don’t Forget One Pin Is Plenty
marketers from diluting Pinterest’s core value of quality over quantity, the image-focused social media site updated contest guidelines...
Pulling The Pin On Spam: Pinterest Begins Permanently Deleting Spammers
With its incredible rise to popularity, Pinterest has become a big target for spammers. New systems have been implemented to help...
The Biggest Losers Of The Great Facebook Like Purge Of 2012
improve overall integrity. Facebook estimates that less that 1% of Likes on any given Page will be removed. The Like removals will target...
Does Your Company Pay For Social Media Reviews?
There is a right way and a wrong way to work with online users to generate content about a business in exchange for cash. For instance,...
Reddit Bans The Atlantic, Business Week And More For Spamming
Yesterday Redditors noticed a strange error message when trying to submit content from a handful of major news sources, a message that...
Facebook, Washington Settle Suits With Alleged ‘Likejacker’
accused earlier this year of running “likejacking” campaigns on Facebook, has settled separate lawsuits with both Facebook and the state...
Inside Twitter’s Spam Lawsuit: Fighting Five Defendants Cost More Than $700,000
We wrote yesterday about Twitter’s lawsuit against the five alleged spammers and, now that the filing is available (PDF download), more...
Twitter Takes Five Alleged Spammers To Federal Court
The five defendants are a mix of companies and individuals: TweetAttacks, TweetAdder, TweetBuddy, James Lucero of justinlover.info and...
Pinterest: We’re “Actively Working” To Fight Spam; It’s A “Tremendous
U.S. president to join: Building an audience and attracting media attention are great, but they also mean that trouble is on the way —...
Facebook Joins Washington AG In Lawsuits Targeting “Likejacking” Scam
As GeekWire reports, the practice was allegedly adding up to $1.2 million per month to Adscend’s coffers. Likejacking, or “clickjacking”...
The Rise Of Social Spam: 1.5% Of Tweets & < 4% Of Facebook Posts Are Spam
The rise of social media has inevitably led to the growth of social spam. The Wall Street Journal reported that social spam is on the...
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