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‘social network’ Stories
Facebook shares exceed $30 for the first time since July
In September, Facebook's shared dropped to their all-time low, leaving some worrying what would come of it all. Now in the few months since then, the company has seen a huge increase of 70-percent, with shares priced at over $30. This is the first time they've broke the $30 mark since July 2012, and follows a quarterly revenue increase of 32-percent.
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Facebook says “Come and see what we’re building” on January 15 event
Feeling social? Facebook has announced a new event for later in January, with the tagline "Come and see what we're building." The January 15 event is being kept mysterious, with no hints as to the subject in the invite, but that's only likely to stoke speculation in the weeks before then.
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Facebook privacy settings changes start to go live
Facebook has rolled out the first wave of privacy changes that it has had planned for awhile now. Users in New Zealand are seeing new notifications and menus that are part of the changes. According to a spokesperson who talked with The Next Web, other Facebook users will begin seeing the changes over the course of the next week as the social network wraps up its testing.
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“Cosmo the God” hacker takes over another Westboro Twitter account
The 15-year-old hacker who goes by the name of Cosmo and Cosmo the God was sentenced to probation in November for his part in a variety of large hacking incidents that happened throughout the year. That hasn't stopped him, however, with the hacker targeting the Westboro Baptist Church's members and picking their Twitter accounts off one by one. His current target? Fred Phelps Jr.
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Twitter pulls the plug on Anonymous
This afternoon, Anonymous's Twitter account went offline to the horror of thousands of followers and supporters who expressed their collective outrage. Turns out the social network pulled the plug on the hackers' account for posting private info. The account came back a while later, with Anonymous sharing the letter it received from Twitter over the incident.
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Twitter begins full Tweet archive download roll-out
Twitter has begun rolling out its tweet download option to all users, a full archive of all your messages shared with the micro-blogging service, beginning with English-language accounts. The feature, which was previewed in a trial-run over the weekend, allows Twitter users to request their archive via a new option in the settings page; the archive itself is delivered as a ZIP file with a useful browsing page showing activity over the lifetime of your account.
Facebook to roll out video ads by summer 2013
Facebook is slated to introduce video advertisements in its users' news feeds during the first half of next year, meaning we should see them by summer. This information comes from a report by Ad Age, which says that this is the latest in the social network's attempts to score "TV dollars" by drawing in industry advertisers. The executives responsible for providing the information don't know all the details, they say, but what they do know gives us a decent peek into what's being discussed behind Facebook's doors.
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Facebook under real-name fire as Germany insists on pseudonyms
Facebook has been told to end its policy insisting that users give their real names, after a German privacy regulator highlighted that it contravenes local laws about pseudonyms. The social site has vowed to fight the demand "vigorously", though it has not yet been adopted across Germany. So far, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ULD) in the state of Schleswig-Holstein has demanded a change in policy, according to German data protection law, but the expectation is that other states will follow suit.
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Twitter archive download option begins roll-out
Twitter has reportedly begun rolling out its "tweet archive download" option, allowing users of the micro-blogging service to save a cache of all of the messages they've ever posted. The feature, promised to be on the roadmap before 2012 was done by Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo, is still believed to be progressively rolling out to users - presumably to avoid a server storm of eager archivists - but will seemingly work much as Facebook's system works.
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Facebook privacy poll closes (turns out you didn’t care about privacy)
Facebook‘s user poll on data privacy issues has closed with only a tiny percentage of the site’s users actually taking the time to vote, despite the potential for the social site to increase personal information sharing with third-parties. The vote, which opened on December 3, saw around 669,000 users cast their opinion, the BBC reports, approximately 0.06-percent of the billion-plus membership Facebook claims.
Facebook offers statement about site outage
Earlier today, Facebook users experienced a site outage for about 20 minutes. The issue didn't affect mobile users, with smartphone and tablet access remaining unaffected. This issue originated after Google users were also affected by outages, prompting curiosity about whether the two issues were related. Turns out, Facebook was just tinkering.
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