Twitter to add ‘report abuse’ button
This week The Age reported that Twitter will finally add a ‘report abuse’ button to all versions of their site. It follows an online petition for a crackdown on abusive tweets after hundreds of rape...
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Twitter changes its rules to help protect users
Twitter has just updated its rules to help protect users from abuse and spam. Abusive behaviour has been targeted with a new “I’m reporting an abusive user” page: This makes it so much easier to report...
View ArticleI’m 13 and none of my friends are on Facebook
Last week, Mashable published this post on the waning appeal of Facebook by a New York teenager. Now, when we are old enough to get Facebook, we don’t want it. By the time we could have Facebooks, we...
View ArticlePublic servant loses job over Twitter attack on the government
Last week The Sydney Morning Herald reported that a court has upheld the sacking of a public servant who criticised the government via social media, even though her name and job was not linked to her...
View ArticleFootballer suspended over umpire Twitter rant
Today the Herald Sun is reporting that a Victorian footballer has been suspended over public tweets criticising umpires. Although the footballer, Noble Park player George Angelopoulos, says that his...
View ArticleYou can now view (almost) every tweet ever
NBC News (USA) is reporting that Topsy, a social analytics site has now indexed every public tweet sent – with the exception of those that have been deleted. This makes searching tweets and the history...
View ArticleSchool to monitor students’ social media posts
In an interesting development, CNN is reporting that a California school district is spending over $40,000 on monitoring students’ Facebook posts, comments, tweets and the like for a year. The...
View Article‘Eraser’ law will let Californian kids scrub online past
California Governor Jerry Brown has spoken to Phys.org about the US state passing a law that entitles young adults to delete their online past. “Kids so often self-reveal before they self-reflect,”...
View ArticleKnicks star fined for tweets
SBS online has reported that New York Knicks basketball player J.R. Smith was fined US$25,000 by the NBA after publicly threatening Detroit player Brandon Jennings on Twitter. NBA president of...
View ArticleIt’s complicated by danah boyd
iQ was fortunate enough to hear internationally recognised social media researcher danah boyd speak back in 2012 (click here to access all of iQ’s resources on danah boyd). Now boyd has a book coming...
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