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Recent Rash of LinkedIn Spam

Tech Soup

Like its more well-known counterpart Facebook, LinkedIn is a social networking site geared towards professional networking and workplace circles. Due to its increasing popularity, there are now more concerted efforts to use LinkedIn lookalike spam to fool users in clicking links within it. Photo: Nan Palmero , CC license.

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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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How do you consider the intangible benefits of social media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. At any rate, it is a good example of how NOT to spam the Flickr community.