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How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo

TechCrunch

One issue stood out: hackers were creating bots that register thousands of email addresses to send spam. These new tests would have the same goal of CAPTCHA, but with a twist: the prompts would all be scans of books. Users would complete the security test while also helping to digitize books for the Internet Archive.

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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia. Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. It's called poetic license when writers do it! The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia. So is the Internet.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. In other words, Twitter has a Verified user spam problem.

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Doing shots with true believers at Ethereum’s biggest party

The Verge

This summer, Colorado will begin accepting cryptocurrency to pay for taxes and drivers’ licenses. We need to collectively take the green pill to create a more solar punk world,” Owocki said, pointing anyone who might be curious to a website where they could buy his book, Greenpilled: How crypto can regenerate the world.

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What does the future hold for your nonprofit in 2021? Look inside this crystal ball…

Pamela Grow

In his book, The Happiness Advantage , Harvard happiness researcher, Shawn Achor, notes that your happiness affects others. Far too many of them will view this as a license to abandon direct mail. Twenty-four percent of nonprofit emails end up in spam folders. The nonprofit sector is not immune. With little by way of resources.