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This scene isn’t quite as bad as when Drew Barrymore’s character took a foul ball to the noggin in Fever Pitch, but it still looks like it hurt and — better yet – could have been avoided.
Recruiters are apparently checking for grammar and spelling on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Twitter says its users fired off more than 15,000 Tweets per second when Spain made its fourth goal in Sunday’s European Championship final, setting a new sports-related record on the social networking site.
This July, Girls Who Code is kicking off a summer program in New York City where 20 girls — many from under-served communities — will spend eight hours a day for eight weeks learning how to code from female engineers, attending workshops and taking field trips to the offices of Google, Foursquare and Twitter.
Facebook’s No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, has become the first woman on the social-networking company’s board of directors.
Facebook has changed your email address. At least that’s how many felt after a quiet but vast change in the way the company displays users’ contact information.
All in all, Find Friends Nearby seemed like a useful tool for making new Facebook friends. So why did the company pull it?
If you missed it, Facebook says it will pay $10 million to compensate users who were turned into product pitchmen as a result of “Sponsored Stories” ads that treat “Likes” as endorsements. None of this money, however, will go to Facebook users.
The London Games will be the most tweeted, liked and tagged in history, with fans offered a never before seen insider’s view of what many are calling the social media Olympics, or the “socialympics.”
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard and UCLA have come up with a formula to create the most popular, most shared messages in the Twitterverse.
Facebook Finally Lets You Edit Your Comments
Before, Facebook only gave you a few seconds to make an edit, which resulted in moments of panic before you had to either delete a comment or just live with it. On Thursday night, that all changed when Facebook decided to let users edit comments.