On a large screen in a conference room at Salesforce.com's San Francisco office, the face of an adolescent girl appears. Like an affectless Wizard of Oz, her floating head manages to mumble “Hi,” but is otherwise wordless. She's dialed in at the behest of her father, an executive at the cloud computing company. He insists [...]
Jason Bagby has followed extreme storms across the country for over a year. Like many of his fellow storm chasers, Bagby is prolific on Instagram Modern storm chasing, particularly in the U.S., has seen bouts of rapid expansion since its inception in the 1950s. Popular documentaries and feature films like Twister have inspired meteorologists and [...]
Year-over-year growth of Twitter's monthly active users is declining quickly, both globally and in the U.S. At its peak, within the past three years, Twitter grew internationally by more than 140%. However, as of Q4 2013, that growth is just under 40%, despite reaching 241 million monthly active users See also: #HashtagEtiquette: 8 People Who [...]
Pinterest announced Friday that users can now have an unlimited amount of secret boards Previously, a user could only have six secret boards. But users loved the feature so much that the company finally gave in to the frequent requests for an unlimited option See also: 7 Ideas for Your First Pinterest Secret Board “While [...]
Venezuelan retired army general Angel Vivas had heard the authorities were coming for him on Sunday. He had no intention of surrendering, so he put on a flak jacket, took out his assault rifle—and started tweeting. First, he posted a picture of workers from CANTV, the government-owned Internet provider, working in front of his house. [...]