Tag: Social media
Get paid £2,000 to quit social media for two months
An educational app offering 5-minute ‘Knowledge Hacks’ is looking to pay someone £2,000 to quit social media for two months. The company wants to hire a self-confessed ‘social media lover’ as part of a study to discover the impact social media and ‘doomscrolling’ have on a person’s productivity, wellbeing and self-growth. The unusual hire comes…
Millions of Brits want to become online stars, survey shows
Image: Mr Beast/YouTube A study of 2,000 adults found 29 per cent would give up their current career to become a successful full-time online star. Of those polled, seven in 10 regularly use social media accounts and spend an average of two hours a day scrolling. But this doubles to…
Facebook flagged 55.6m child abuse images in 2021
Pro-consumer website Comparitech has today released its updated report The rising tide of child abuse on social media. It shows how much content flagged under “child nudity and sexual exploitation” social media platforms reported in the first three quarters of 2021, compared with previous years. Among the key findings are: Facebook flagged a staggering 55.6…
5 e-commerce trends for 2022
In the past two years, we have seen e-commerce change and grow to meet the demands of the new Covid-19 world. As we celebrate a New Year, it is vital for all online sellers to look ahead and plan for what's to come. According to e-commerce experts Optiseller, there are five new e-commerce trends that…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Reddit to go public
Social media platform Reddit has announced that it has started the process to sell its shares on the stock market. In a confidential filing, it did not reveal how many shares it planned to sell or the price of the shares. In August, the company said it had raised $700m (£528m) in new funding, valuing…
TikTok reaches 1 billion users in 5 years
For the last couple of years, TikTok’s stature as a social media platform has grown rapidly, and is now a household name despite the presence of social media giants like Facebook and Twitter. In the second half of 2021, TikTok boasted that it joined the elite club of social media applications to reach one billion…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Android 10 remains most popular Google OS
Google has unveiled new figures on how many people use different versions of Android, and surprisingly, the most popular version is from 2019. Published by Google's Android Studio platform for app developers, these figures show a breakdown of how many people are currently using each version of Android. According to the figures, 24.3% of users are…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter claims social media reform plans ‘need more clarity’
Government plans for social media regulation need "far more clarity", a Twitter boss has told the BBC. Katy Minshall said the draft Online Safety Bill failed to answer key questions such as how to define legal but harmful material. Instead of simply targeting those who post offensive content, the bill would put more responsibility on…
Young Brits more likely to fall victim to online scams
After a year that has seen many of us spend more time online than ever before, a new study from McAfee shows that while many Brits have become savvier when it comes to security, many of us are still taking unnecessary risks – and this is particularly true of the younger generation. Over the course…
King has the last laugh after fallout with Rowling
The Harry Potter franchise has become a global phenomenon over the past couple of decades, making author JK Rowling an extremely rich woman. The decision to adapt her books into movies has proved to be hugely lucrative, with the film series generating billions of dollars at the box office. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows…