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Twitter Cyberbullying Could Finally Be at an End

Twitter cyberbullying is not the worst, it is just one of the most commonly encountered.

Could Twitter cyberbullying finally come to an end thanks to a new feature currently in the works?

Freedom of speech paired with internet anonymity has led to increasing case of cyberbullying over many social media platforms, such as Instagram and Twitter, in the past couple of years.

To be more precise, cyberbullying, in this case, is not a distinct occurrence of a person speaking their mind while using more adult language than conventionally preferred, nor does it mean somebody making an unpopular opinion public.

The actual issues of online cyberbullying is that several social media accounts, both high and low profile, are constantly bombarded with foul harassment just for the sake of it. It has gotten to the point where many individuals have decided to quit on their social media accounts in order to avoid further social or mental damage.

However, freedom of speech does not equal to freedom to tweet. In their latest and by far strongest attempt to combat Twitter cyberbullying, the company may be developing a tool which could automatically block the display of tweets with offensive content.

Cyberbullying is not freedom of expression, it is intentional social abuse and attack.

Why Is Twitter Cyberbullying Such A Big Problem?

Twitter has hundreds of millions of active accounts tweeting on a daily basis. The content varies from text to links to photos to videos. Unsavory or abusive tweets can be easily reported but before any measures are taken, they need to be reviewed by a human team.

No matter how professional a human team is, they are still prone to bias. In addition, whenever a new trending topic emerges, it is bound to have its fair share of internet hate.

No matter the reasons, users can be angry or disappointed and speak out. Acting against these individuals would not fix a problem, it would just create more anger due to speech limitation.

However, adding a word filter and automating a process that just removes any content which mentions any of the words, no matter the context is a clean, efficient, and quick way to manage the entire Twitter cyberbullying situation.

With such a feature in play, no Twitter user can accuse the service of denying their freedom of speech. Meanwhile, on the receiving end, users are spared of any content that they find abusive, allowing everybody to fully customize their Twitter experience to better suit their needs.

The feature does not fix the original issue in regards to how abusive and mean-spirited people can be over the internet. However, the tool does not address that issues, as it merely is meant to address Twitter cyberbullying.

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Trouble Sleeping? Turn Away From Social Media

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Trouble sleeping? Turn away from social media because researchers founds they are prone to fragmented sleep patterns among frequent users. There’s no doubt that social media has taken over the internet. Be it for pictures, posts, videos, or overall existing in the digital world, most people have an account here or there.

However, besides online bullying or fierce political debates that know no end, there are other issues that can be attributed to prolonged use. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh conducted a study on 1,788 adults in the United States, aged between 19 and 32 years old. The purpose was to hone in on the effect of social media on sleep.

Previous studies have shown that smartphones and other gadgets may have an impact, but this is the first of its kind that directly concentrates on several platforms. The participants were asked about their frequency of use of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine, and LinkedIn. These are all major social media brands that have proven themselves popular among young adults.

According to their findings, each person spent, on average, around 61 minutes per day on social media and visited various accounts around thirty times per week. Over 50% of the participants reported problems sleeping that ranged from medium to high disturbances. And, apparently, those who often frequented social media had the biggest problems. This ranged from insomnia, trouble falling asleep, or not getting enough rest through the night.

Those who frequently checked social media throughout the week were three times more likely to report sleep disturbances. On the other hand, those who also spent the most total time on various platforms were twice as likely to have trouble sleeping. Whether frequency of use or total time, it seemed that avid social media users did report the most problems.

According to lead author of the study, Dr. Jessica Levenson, from the university’s Department of Psychiatry, this is the first time a study has shown the impact of social media on sleep. And it’s no wonder. Technically, this is the first generation to grow up with such an extensive diversity of social media platforms. They’re are in full bloom and too many options to count. However, it’s also very impacting.

This may indicate that young adults reporting sleep disturbances should also be inquired by doctors on their social media use. Then, perhaps a method to stop the “obsessive checking” should be one of the methods used. However, the matter requires more investigation. While there is a definite association, it’s difficult to say which influences which.

Does social media cause sleep disturbances? Do people with trouble sleeping frequent social media more often? Or it is a combination of both? It’s tough to tell, but the researchers will persist with their investigations.

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Twitter Employees Are Leaving the Ship

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Last weekend something happened at Twitter that lead to the departure of 5 executives.

It seems that major Twitter employees are leaving the ship to work for the competition, or simply other, more challenging, projects. The last one to do so is Kevin Weil, former product head at Twitter, now Instagram’s product head. This change transpired after this weekend’s shift in Twitter’s leading staff.

Twitter once was a technological advancement and the number one social media platform. But things have taken a change for the worse in the last quarters and its stock prices have plummeted and the fans moved on to Facebook, ScapChat and Instagram that seem to be, at present times, better suited to the public’s demands.

This weekend a number of important names left Twitter to go work at other companies or projects, some didn’t announce a new collaboration at all, but they did resign their position at Twitter. Things are not yet clear on this Sunday’s sudden turn of events for the social media giant, Twitter, and there are no official statements on the cause of all these resignations and changes in the company.

It seems that the head of Vine, Jason Toff, has, ironically enough, tweeted that he is leaving Twitter to join the giant Google on its work on virtual reality products and projects. He is one of the few who announced a new career path.

Katie Stanton Jacobs, now former head of all media relations at Titter and Alex Roetter, now former senior VP of engineering have also announced their departure, but did now communicate if they have a position secured by another company, or if they have any other project in the making.

Now Kevin Weil joins the other leaders at Twitter and resigns his position as product head at Twitter to accept the position as product head at Instagram, a branch of Facebook, and the main reason for Twitter’s collapse on the social media market.

At Instagram, Kevin Weil will be under the command of Kevin Systrom, Instagram CEO.

It is not yet clear why twitter employees are leaving the ship, but hopefully, it is not because it is about to sink. Maybe what happened Sunday was a difference of opinions that made the board members reconsider the people in charge of Twitter. But this theory does not match the present CEO at Twitter, Jack Dorsey, official statement, in which he assured the public that the executives that are leaving the company were in no way fired from their positions.

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Twitter comes in support of net neutrality, FCC vote likely on Feb 26

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The issue of net neutrality has been making rounds across the United States for quite a long time with some supporting FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal, while others showing opposition saying it’s not a free market solution.

But micro-blogging site Twitter seems to have finally decided its position on the entire issue. The social networking website company has posted a proclamation on its blog suggesting its stance on net neutrality and it is in favor of the FCC’s proposal.

The regulatory body Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will be coming up with a proposal on net neutrality this week which will be aimed at offering protection to consumers and competition. A voting will be organized on this very proposal on February 26, where the members of FCC will reveal their stand during an open meeting.

The current proposal by FCC intends at making the Internet world “a level playing field once and for all”.

Along with other internet companies, Twitter has also turned up in support of The Internet Association in asking the federal regulating authority to deliver a clear ruling that will enforce net neutrality while creating new set of rules for ensuring equal accessibility of online content without any form of blocking or throttling.

According to Twitter, all Internet traffic should be treated under one eye, and the system of pay-to-prioritize must be made illegal.

The micro-blogging site is being used as a social medium or tool for democracy by the masses. Twitter realizes that the Internet is the best tool in today’s world and hence should not be bought or sold at the hands of the bureaucrats.

It appears that the FCC is avoiding, at least for now, regulation as much as possible. The Internet companies has been voicing for a clear stance from FCC on the net neutrality, which of course should benefit all Internet users.

Twitter Made an “All” tab for Users to Experience the Historical Awesomeness

On this Tuesday, Twitter has announced that it has compiled a searchable list of every tweet ever published by you, since the beginning of the site, i.e. in 2006.

This amazing change has been named as “Tweet Index“, as it being referred to, is available on both the platform users, like web and mobile. This change is being offered to Twitter users via an “All” tab given near the search bar.

Twitter wrote in their company blog post that while all tweets have already been available in some or other form of the website, this is the first time ever in the history of Twitter that the users will be able to search the entire Twitter site for results.

Earlier, the users could only search a list of tweets, dating back a few weeks. While, this smaller body of work contains all the majority of tweets that users have tweeted or have been looking for, this larger body of work will provide fuller and richer searcher results of all the tweets. When you decide to select all the tweets, you need to go the search under the “all” tab and you will be easily able to see a collection of nearly 500 billion tweets from all across the globe.

Twitter is very proud to make the entire collection of tweets available to the public. The company’s blog describes the accomplishment as making available “eight years”…..worth of every day that consists of human experiences and major historical events. Now, Twitter is making available a search engine that excels at uncovering hundreds of billions of tweets as historical documents.

All of this has been accompanied in way that is efficient and time-saving. This is not going to be bothersome to users. The entire search is conducted within the parameter of 100 milliseconds.

Why Is Twitter Cyberbullying Such A Big Problem?

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