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Facebook photo uploads double during New Year 2013, new record set

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New Year 2013 set an all-time Facebook record as 1.1 billion photos were uploaded during the 48-hour period beginning New Year's Eve and continuing through New Year's Day.

Social Media

Rick Santorum sets new 2012 Election Twitter record on Super Tuesday

Darren McCarra9 years ago

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Rick Santorum, second place candidate in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries set a new 2012 Election Twitter record with almost 40,000 tweets referencing him between 6pm and 7pm PT, yesterday, Super Tuesday.

Web

Skype continues record-setting trend

Darren McCarra9 years ago

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Skype has set another new record for the most number of people using the service concurrently, peaking at 34 million users earlier today.

Twitter provides an added layer of interaction around events not provided by traditional media

Social Media

Super Bowl sets new tweets per second record

Darren McCarra9 years ago

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As the Giants rallied to victory over the Patriots at last night's Super Bowl, a new tweets per second record for a sporting event was registered, reaching 12,233 in the dying moments of the game.

Brains Byte Back

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.

Social media has become such a deeply entrenched part of our lives, that abandoning it all together seems like an almost impossible task for many of us. Therefore, in this episode, we will explore how we can have a better and healthier relationship with social media.

To do this we are joined by Scott Gazzoli, host of Causing The Effect, a podcast exploring how to effectively connect the mind and body through psychology and physiology.

On the show, Gazzoli discusses what motivated him to start his podcast, why he is concerned about social media influencers, and how social media is impacting our ability to delay gratification.

We also discuss how Youtube’s homepage is designed to keep us watching content, often promoting extreme videos regardless of whether or not this information is good or bad.

In addition to the above, we also pick apart the idea that every generation is fearful of something new, negatively impacting a younger generation, such as video games or rap/heavy metal music. In light of this, Gazzoli shares why he believes that social media is different from the fears of previous generations.