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Facebook fights creeps and apathy with expiring friend requests
Snapchat has ephemeral messages, and now Facebook has ephemeral friend requests. The big blue social network feeds off your social graph, and every time you expand it, it has more content to show you. But if you leave a questionable friend request in limbo for too long, you’ll probably never confirm or delete it. So Facebook…
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Las comunidades X comienzan a parecerse más a grupos de Facebook con una nueva función de verificación de miembros
X es adoptando una característica que se utiliza actualmente en muchos grupos de Facebook para examinar a los miembros antes de unirse: preguntas obligatorias. La compañía anteriormente conocida como Twitter anunció hoy que los administradores de comunidades privadas en X ahora pueden exigir a los usuarios que respondan una pregunta cuando soliciten unirse, además de…
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Micropodcasting? Facebook tries Voice Clip status updates
More intimate than text but easier to record than video, Facebook hopes voice could get people sharing more on its aging social network. And internationally, where users may have to deal with non-native language keyboards, voice lets them speak their mind without a typing barrier. Facebook is now testing Voice Clips as a status update…
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Facebook swings at Twitter with Breaking News label
Facebook’s algorithm is terrible at surfacing breaking news, often showing urgent posts hours or even days later when more facts have since emerged or the story has changed. This has made Twitter the default home for this content, but that position has weakened since Twitter implemented its own relevancy algorithm that brings up old tweets.…




