The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio. A calculator on Fredrickson’s website for her book Positivity can help you evaluate your own positivity ratio. Positive thinking has a tipping point, as well.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Over the first few episodes, you’re introduced to a sheriff in Oklahoma, a housewife in Long Island, a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan, a teen in London, and an expert in Tokyo working with the International Space Station. The ratio of human drama and sci-fi storytelling is completely out of whack.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. Facebook is preparing to launch officially licensed music videos on its platform in the US next month. After Wednesday’s catastrophe, it hardly seems like hyperbole to suggest that our world could hang in the balance. Tanya Chen / BuzzFeed ). billion for a 7.73

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Here are Taylor Lorenz, Kellen Browning and Sheera Frenkel in the New York Times : TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Mr. Trump’s campaign rally as a prank. It turned out that they had been played. It also raised some provocative questions.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. The ambitious company is also pushing aggressively into a plethora of new arenas from gaming and search to music.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If you think about the way Spotify gave us access to the back catalogue of music, VR is going to give us access to the back catalogue of objects that we can look at or that we can interact with — with other people, anywhere that we go. Teen girls are dominating TikTok , going from zero followers to hundreds of thousands in a matter of days.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang at Bloomberg: The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. The ambitious company is also pushing aggressively into a plethora of new arenas from gaming and search to music. And it will be all over Twitter.

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