Friday, January 27, 2017

#Cyberculture agenda: “Dormant Botnet of 350,000 Twitter Accounts…

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A massive botnet secretly infiltrated the Twitterverse in 2013 but has lain mysteriously dormant since then, say researchers.

Twitter and TV Superfans (Study)

 

How do “superfans” of television show behave on Twitter, and what should marketers do to tap them? Twitter teamed up with Vizeum and Dentsu Aegis Network to find out.

Superfans were defined as those who rated their fandom of specific TV shows as a nine or 10 out of 10, and Twitter senior research analyst Katherine Karp said in a blog post that those superfans are more likely to buy products or services advertised during their favorite shows.

How Blockchain is overshadowing Bitcoin

 

Steve Jobs once said that “the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do”. That’s the motto an anonymous person took to heart as he shook up the financial world by creating an unregulated tech-based currency in early 2009. That very currency was developed using another revolutionary technology which is now in the news for its uses beyond trading unregulated online money, and has become a hot topic amongst financial and business executives recently. Let’s discuss what both technologies offer their users, and what the future holds for each. Bitcoin’s introduction…
 

Changes made to official U.S. government websites in the dawn of Donald Trump’s presidency are already alarming people invested in social justice causes.

 

Xnet, a wonderful Spanish activist group, has created the Anti-Corruption Complaint Box, a whistleblowing platform for the city of Barcelona that allows people to file anonymous claims in a Globalleaks repository, with their anonymity protected by Tor.

Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/2jlqjOQ


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