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How to get followers on Instagram: a basic guide

Kavinesh Arumugam2 years ago

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Instagram started small, but it didn’t take much time before it became one of the leading social media platforms. Today,...

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Facebook says “anecdotes” of it suppressing status updates in order to receive payments are untrue

Piers Dillon Scott7 years ago

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Facebook has denied that it is suppressing high profile and business users' status updates in order to encourage them to pay to reach more of their fans and followers.

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Why don’t we tweet what we Google? Can end-of-year lists tell us about the year?

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Can Twitter's yearly trends and Google Zeitgeist really tell us about the past year?

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How to find out where your Twitter followers are located

Darren McCarra8 years ago

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Out of simple curiosity or as an important aspect of social campaign monitoring, a new service known as TweepsMap analyses your Twitter followers and graphs their location by country, state or city.

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

According to 99 firms, 293.6 billion emails are sent every day. That figure probably doesn’t surprise you given the number of emails sitting in your inbox, hundreds if not thousands… Right? But among these emails are numerous malicious emails, designed to trick, scam and hack.

These emails are known as phishing emails, which in its simplest form can be described as a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

But there is good news, as we now have a guardian angel ready to look out for us. My guest today is the president and founder of Pixm, a company that provides real-time anti-phishing on log-in pages and shuts down an attack at the point of click, Arun Buduri.

And for our Neuron to Something piece, where we discuss a story relating to psychology and technology, we will look at a recent Pew Research Center survey, analyzing Americans’ feelings and perceptions relating to data collection.

Video from Buduri: Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’