Twit World Report: October 2015

Friday, October 30, 2015

This MP Has Been Inundated With Rape Threats - For Objecting To Men's Day Debate

Labour MP Jess Phillips has spoken of her disgust after being inundated with online threats to rape and murder her.

The mother-of-two tweeted on F...

Bob Ross's Twitter Account Is Pretty Much Everything You Need In Life

You might not immediately recognise the name but Bob Ross was - and still is - a bit of a legend.

The ever-cheerful painter with the big hair grace...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Android Developers Can Now Choose Exactly When App Updates Go Live

Trying to guess when an Android update goes live won't be such a problem in the future: As per its support document, Google is now allowing developers to use a timed publishing approach for updates on the Play Store. In practice, that means once updates have been approved, app makers can ...

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

What We Learned At The e2e Conference

Robots writing on dry-erase boards. Hallway chatter about ultrasonic welders and bills of materials. And a couple hundred creators, inventors, and connectors all trying to bring new hardware to market.That was the scene at Jabil's Blue Sky Center in San Jose, Calif., for two days in October as the ...

Apple Wants Apps To Support 3D Touch—But On Its Own Terms

Blackbox developer Ryan McLeod thought he'd found the perfect use for 3D Touch on the new iPhone: A portable scale app called Gravity that tapped into the pressure-sensitive technology to weigh small items placed on a spoon. Unfortunately, Apple didn't like the idea—McLeod's app has been rejected ...

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Hardware Makers Can Now Get A Custom-Built Raspberry Pi To Order

Businesses and startups can now get their hands on customized, mass-produced versions of the Raspberry Pi, thanks to a new deal from manufacturing partner Element14. Whether for small Kickstarter projects or large industrial applications, interested parties can mod their Pi before buying ...

How Much English Majors Earn After Coding BootCamps

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.Silicon Valley is racing ahead with its own alternative to college and new research from bootcamp review site Course ...

Monday, October 26, 2015

Why The Wearables Developer Market Population Is Taking A Plunge

Few things are as hyped as the Internet of Things (IoT), so why is the wearables developer population shrinking?According to a new VisionMobile report, 21% of IoT developers have near-term plans to develop for the wearables market, down sharply from 28% just six months ...

Google Designs Low-Cost Online Degree On How To Build Startups

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.Next on Google's to-do list: teach everyone how to build a tech startup. The search giant recently announced a ...

Why Facebook Plugged Heroku Into Parse

If you want to attract developers, then you need to make their lives as easy as possible: Coding apps is challenging enough without spending time on testing, maintenance, scaling and other tasks that go along with it. We've just seen Twitter add Fastline integration to its Fabric platform, and ...

Friday, October 23, 2015

Who To Follow – October 2015

Here are this month’s accounts to follow on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Click the images to follow the featured Twitter and Instagram accounts. For Snapchat, open the app and scan the Snapcode to add the user automatically. Add any submissions for next month in the comments section!

Platforms

Who to follow on Instagram

Who to follow on Twitter

Jomny Sun

Jomny, an aliebn confuesed abot humamn lamgauge, comes up with hilarious scenarios and observations about Earthlings.

DrakeDancing2

After the Hotline Bling video, this parody account hasn't stopped making hilarious remakes.

Bridger Winegar

On her way to social media stardom, Bridger gives it to you straight for original and relatable jokes.

chuuch

Chuuch's awkward, raw, and unpredictable comedy will always make you pause while scrolling on your newsfeed.

Who to follow on Snapchat

Kylie Jenner

See exclusive selfies and videos, often with her sisters and boyfriend Tyga.

Huff Post

Get behind the scenes footage and play games with Huff Post employees.

Liz Plank

Watch this Senior Editor at Mic attend political events and root for social justice.

Taco Bell

Explore the menu, new music, and have fun with the Taco Bell Snapchat Team.

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Amazon's Cloud Business Is Worth At Least $70 Billion

Two years ago VMware president Carl Eschenbach snidely suggested that he found it "really hard to believe that we cannot ... beat a company that sells books." Two years later, the truth has become blindingly clear: He can't. In fact, two years later and an amazing quarter later, it's ...

Thursday, October 22, 2015

New Mandatory Drone Registration: The Worst-Case Scenarios

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.Federal regulators are eyeing the drone industry. Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Transportation ...

Fastlane Explained: Why Twitter Acquired The iOS Development Automation Tool

Judging by Twitter's Flight developers conference this week, the company has decided its best chance of growth is to encourage developers back into the fold. Part of that encouragement involves improvements to its Fabric suite of developer tools, and one of those changes come from Twitter's ...

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

YouTube Red Bundles The Best Media Google's Got Into One Subscription

After many months of speculation, YouTube has finally unveiled its premium subscription service: $9.99 a month for ad-free viewing and listening, offline caching and a raft of other features too. It's a major milestone in YouTube's growth as a platform, coming in its 10th year and underlining ...

Learn How To Blog With This Comprehensive Guide

Photo by Mike LichtThis article is sponsored by StartBloggingOnline, a site that has helped launch more than 9,500 blogs. As a sponsored post, it reflects the views of the sponsor, not ReadWrite's editors.Though the concept of blogging has been around for years, blogging continues to grow in ...

Twitter Is Wooing Developers—Will They Forgive And Forget?

At Twitter's second Flight conference for developers—its third such gathering in its history—CEO Jack Dorsey struck an apologetic tone.Why apologize? Since last year, when it unveiled Fabric, Twitter is giving away an embarrassment of riches to developers, from its free Crashlytics error-reporting ...

The Most Shamefully Cringey Attempts By Brands To Piggyback On Back To The Future Day

Ever since the advent of social media management, Twitter jockeys have been waiting for the brand engagement goldmine that is 21 October 2015.

Why?...

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

NYT Jumps Into VR, Sending A Million Google Cardboards To Readers

The New York Times is giving out Google Cardboard kits to its one million subscribers. The free gifts will ship in advance of the November 7 release of its new virtual reality film, The Displaced. Produced by the New York Times Magazine and the first in a planned series of short movies ...

For Slack's App Builders, The Message Is The Platform

Have you gotten the message?Ben Brown has. The Internet pioneer, an old friend of mine, has long experimented with new interfaces. A decade and a half before millions of Pinterest users relied on "Pin It" buttons in their Web browsers to save images, Brown was inventing the bookmarklet technology ...

Win The Innovation World Cup And Show Off Your Big Idea

This post is sponsored by MediaTek Labs. As a sponsored post, it represents the views of the sponsor, not ReadWrite's editors.The Innovation World Cup Series is a leading contest in worldwide, open innovation. It encompasses wearable technologies, the Internet of Things, and cloud solutions. For ...

Monday, October 19, 2015

Liverpudlian Rating Toast Out Of Ten Must Be The Most British Twitter Trend Ever

A very British Twitter trend is seeing people send pictures of toast to a food-loving Liverpudlian in order for him to rate them out of 10.

Finn Mc...

Liverpudlian Rating Toast Out Of Ten Must Be The Most British Twitter Trend Ever

A very British Twitter trend is seeing people send pictures of toast to a food-loving Liverpudlian in order for him to rate them out of 10.

Finn Mc...

How The Wrong SDK Can Get You Booted From The App Store

Apple has removed more than 250 apps from its App Store for their use of a sketchy third-party advertising SDK (software development kit), which was in breach of the company's security and privacy guidelines. According to a report by Ars Technica, the kit collected a host of personally ...

12 Ways to Get an Industry Rock Star to Join Your Startup

Guest author Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.When you're a young entrepreneur, you might be excited to start something with your peers. However, you likely also recognize that more experienced talent would help you out. If you don't have years of industry experience, ...

Liz Kendall's Shut Down Of This Abusive Twitter Troll Is Just Perfect

Labour MP Liz Kendall has executed possibly the most perfect troll shut down yet.

The Leicester West MP was responding to a Jeremy Corbyn supporte...

Read more: Liz Kendall, Twitter, UK News, Labour Party, UK News

Friday, October 16, 2015

If Dads Heard The Inane Crap That's Spouted At Working Mums

A hilarious parody Twitter account is calling out the inane advice working mums hear all the time.

@manwhohasitall offers "top tips for men jugglin...

The White House Doesn't Need To Spend $700K On "Standing Desks"

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.The White House reportedly wants to shell out a whopping $700,000 for standing desks. While it's true that sitting ...

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Why The Legacy Carmakers Can't Beat Tesla Or Apple

As Ricardo Reyes, Tesla's head of communications, told Wired:In other cars, all the systems work separately—there are different processors for different parts: the safety system here, the cruise control here. And that’s the evolution of building cars in stages, whereas our car has a central ...

Facebook Pulls Back The Curtain On Its VR Video Push

Facebook is going big on video, including 360-degree VR-lite video—and the company has explained a little more about what's going on behind the scenes with its new support for immersive video clips.For the uninitiated, 360 video is filmed in all directions at once and lets the viewer experience the ...

Jeremy Corbyn Economic Adviser Apologises For Nigerian Economist Tweet Amid Claims Of 'Racism'

Jeremy Corbyn’s new economic adviser apologised this afternoon for suggesting George Osborne contacted “Nigerian economists” ahead of his fiscal...

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Perch Can Use Existing Devices To Make Any Home Smart

Fresh out of the Samsung Accelerator startup program is Perch, an innovative app and back-end system for monitoring homes through existing hardware. It launches in open beta today as an Android app, but more integrations and iOS support are promised soon.See also: Smart Homes: How To Keep From ...

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Hardware As A Service: Tile Finds A Way To Keep Making Money

Tile cofounder and CEO Mike Farley sat down with me Tuesday afternoon at our e2e Conference to talk about hardware innovation. He had a lot to say—since the company's record-setting crowdfunding campaign for a $25 Bluetooth fob that you can attach to anything you want to find, the company ...

Hardware As A Service: Tile Finds A New Way To Make Money

Google Cardboard Brings Homemade VR To The World

Bringing a taste of virtual reality to the world at large is one of the main motivations driving Google Cardboard. The company just announced a newly extended rollout of its app to 100 countries in 39 languages. The developer docs are now available in 10 different languages too."We're excited ...

Twitter Just Sacked A Huge Chunk Of Its Global Workforce

Twitter will cut 336 of its employees. Representing 8 per cent of its global workforce the move is part of a restructuring plan that will see the comp...

Twitter Just Sacked A Huge Chunk Of Its Global Workforce

Twitter will cut 336 of its employees. Representing 8 per cent of its global workforce the move is part of a restructuring plan that will see the comp...

Monday, October 12, 2015

Blocks, The Modular Smartwatch, Gets Ready For Its Moment Of Truth

Blocks, the wearable smartwatch you configure yourself out of expandable modules, is going live on Kickstarter tomorrow—and that should tell us something about the market's appetite for a device that offers customization as its main selling point.The Blocks device is built around a core watchface ...

Sunday, October 11, 2015

'Harry Potter' Star Appeals For Help To Find Missing Caravan

Actor Warwick Davis, known for his roles in 'Harry Potter', 'Extras' and 'Life's Too Short', has appealed to Twitter users to help find his caravan, a...

Friday, October 9, 2015

Why Silicon Valley Will Care About The Republican Race For Speaker

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.The tech industry, now one of the largest private sector lobbying forces in Washington DC, hasn't had much to say as ...

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Amazon's Kinesis Firehose Aims To Prevent IoT Overload

Once our homes are kitted out with all manner of smart devices and sensors, where does the growing mass of collected data go to? Enter Kinesis Firehose, one of several services announced by Amazon at its AWS Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week.The Firehose lets device makers stream data ...

Amazon To Everyone: You're Toast

To every big-business tech vendor of pretty much any kind, Amazon Web Services has a message for you: Goodbye.At its annual Re:Invent conference, AWS dismantled pretty much every comfortable fallacy that legacy vendors have used to battle the public cloud generally and AWS ...

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Google Introduces Accelerated Mobile Pages To Keep Content On The Web

Both Facebook and Apple believe they've built a better home for news content on mobile devices—self-contained apps where load times are fast and ads are discreet—but Google isn't going to lie down without a fight.The result is the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, a new open-source HTML standard ...

EU Strikes Back Over Snowden Leaks, But Blow Hits US Startups

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein. The technology industry is scrambling to understand how it will continue business in Europe, after the ...

Why (And How) Startups Are Tying Into Amazon's DRS System

Having launched last spring, Amazon's Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) may be young, but it's growing up fast. In fact, it just took another big step recently: Last week, the company announced a new batch of DRS partners and devices, making for a move that could extend the ...

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Slack Aims To Help Other Apps, Not Compete With Them

At an event in San Francisco Monday evening, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said that his company was going to stay focused on its namesake app, a tool for team collaboration, rather than spinning off a bunch of new apps.Butterfield was at Galvanize, a coworking and events space in San Francisco's ...

Microsoft Finally Opens Applications For HoloLens Dev Kit

Microsoft executives have been in New York showing off a pile of new hardware devices, and among the new phones and laptops, developers finally got the HoloLens news they were waiting for: The company finally opened applications for the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition. However, ...

Twitter's New Feature Literally Summarises Life On Earth

Twitter has unveiled a brand-new feature called Moments which takes key tweets from the last 24 hours and compiles it into a magazine-style scrollable...

Read more: Twitter, Social Media, UK Tech News

Monday, October 5, 2015

John Whittingdale's Conservative Conference Speech Sends Twitter Into Confused Meltdown

The Conservative Party Press office has been rounded upon by Twitter users after tweeting a quote from John Whittingdale's conference speech.

“...

Friday, October 2, 2015

The Apple Watch Saved A Teen's Life—And Put Apple's Health Focus In The Spotlight

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.An Apple Watch may have saved a teenagers life, and Apple CEO Tim Cook is so pleased that he offered the thankful ...

Social Media Brand Fail: Shell Instagram

Everyone may be on social media, but that doesn’t mean every brand should. Royal Dutch Shell, commonly referred to as Shell, shares Instagram photos that align with the companies mission of “manufacturing and supplying oil products and services that satisfy the needs of our customers.” And somehow the brand thought it was a good idea to create an Instagram. When controversial businesses create social media accounts, they create more venues for consumer outrage, as seen with McDonald’s Instagram. However, while McDonald’s retains their happy (meal) image, Shell prefers a professional, business tone. And so, consumers bring business-related hate.

Social media offers businesses a way to relate to customers. This can be anything from creating funny posts to addressing customer service inquiries. Therefore, apparel and food brands have a plethora of content opportunities. But these initiatives hardly apply to oil companies. Plus, people don’t even want to look at the product considering its association with detrimental environmental hazards. Shell’s branding opts for a customer, employee and environmental emphasis. And consumers have responded in different ways.

Brand Haters

Consumers attack Shell for their preventable oil spill in Nigeria in this photo. Commenters not only talk to the brand, but also eachother. This type of dialogue is prominently displayed on the account, considering the low following and engagement numbers. While some comments on the Shell’s Instagram discuss innovation, there will always be the brand haters reminding Shell that not everything has been cleaned up.

Hashtag Activism

Some Shell haters have responded collectively using #shellno. On Twitter, many #shellno tweets target President Barack Obama to take action against Arctic drilling and Shell. On Instagram, people use the hasthtag to show their distrust and despise for the company. When searching the hashtag on Instagram, there are more than 8K tags. Considering the brand only has 17K followers, this is a lot of #shellno Instagram fail content.

Greenwashing

Consumers have also blamed the company for greenwashing. Greenwashing refers to a company’s efforts to appear more environmentally friendly than they are in their business practice. Because Shell is fundamentally an oil company, not to mention one with plenty of spills and protests, it’s hard to overlook its history. While some consumers know the term, other allude to it when stating that Shell can’t let a few programs makeup for its other failings.

Do you have another example of a brand Instagram fail to join the company of McDonald’s and Netflix. Share in the comments section and it may appear in our next post!

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

A Sinister New App Could Be Rating You Right Now And People Are Freaking Out

Peeple is a new app that will let everyone rate and review each other - including you and there's nothing you can do about it.

The app's current te...

Call Of Duty Live-Tweeted A 'Terrorist Attack' In Singapore And The Internet Is Horrified

Call of Duty used its official Twitter account to live report the destruction of Singapore on Wednesday after a fictional "terrorist attack".

Updat...

Why Amazon Kicked Out Apple TV And Chromecast

Both Apple and Google have television on their minds: The tech titans have updated their streaming devices, the Apple TV and Chromecast. But soon, neither will find a home on Amazon.com, where those devices had been selling like hotcakes.According to Bloomberg, the retailer plans to ...

Nest Weave Arrives To Connect The Smart Home (Dumb Appliances, Too!)

Google teased its smart home initiatives Weave and Brillo earlier this year at I/O, and now the tech giant's Nest division is pushing its own smart home standard out into the real world. Nest Weave, announced Thursday, is a protocol for Internet of Things gadgets that lets them communicate ...

Open Source: Billions Upon Billions Of Free

Just how much is all that free stuff worth?That's the task the Linux Foundation set itself, releasing a new report that claims that the code it stewards is worth more than $5 billion. With projects ranging from Linux to Cloud Foundry to Xen, it's as impressive as it is plausible.If the Linux ...

This App Lets You 'Rate' Your Friends And It's A Disaster Waiting To Happen

We live in a world where almost every decision we make is based upon a star rating. From restaurants to Uber, we make a choice based on what everyone ...