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Reuters / Lucas Jackson Twitter’s New Features Aren’t What Users Asked For
Tackling abuse should be priority number one, many say.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Has Changed How Teens View the News
Young people can see the president’s tweets as jokes, but they still often share his negative feelings about the press.
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Shutterstock Making a Living Before Making It Big on YouTube
In the tough ecosystem of social-media celebrity, wannabe stars are flocking to fledgling apps to stay afloat as they wait to make it big.
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Shutterstock Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job
As long as you’re a teen with a following.
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Instagram / Thanh Do / The Atlantic How Daquan Went From Homegrown Instagram Account to Modern Media Conglomerate
Meme accounts are big business now—and plenty of people are eager to get in on the action.
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Shutterstock / Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic As Memes Evolve, Apps Are Struggling to Keep Up
Everyone is racing to build a killer meme-making tool.
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Instagram / Thanh Do / The Atlantic Teens Are Debating the News on Instagram
More teenagers are getting their information from so-called flop accounts.
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Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic via Instagram Why Instagram Questions Became So Annoying
There’s a better use for the social platform’s new tool than spamming your friends.
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Frèdèric Scheiber / AP Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman’s Statement Confirms the Worst
This is “not a romance” but “a digital-age cautionary tale about privacy, identity, ethics and consent.”
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Reuters / Mark Blinch How Twitter Became The Number One Social Network For Nudists
As platforms like Facebook and Instagram crack down on explicit content, Twitter has allowed nudity to thrive.
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Wisa Thananimit / Shutterstock / Thanh Do / ... Why Some of Instagram's Biggest Memers Are Locking Their Accounts
More meme accounts are going private. Their owners say it’s a new way to gain followers on a crowded platform.
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Vital Pictures / Getty Stop Live-Tweeting Strangers Flirting
#PlaneBae is just the most recent example of an obnoxious trend.
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Shutterstock How Twitter Became Home to the Teen Status Update
“Local Twitter” is a booming network of basic, young suburbanites across the country.
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Ted Horowitz / Corbis / Getty Are Male and Female Brains Biologically Different?
The scientific debate around this question keeps raging, but one neuroscientist says we’re more alike than we think.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP James Madison Would Be Horrified by a Tweeting President
The head of the National Constitution Center speaks out on how social media has eroded the founding father's vision for democracy.
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Fullscreen Transitioning on YouTube
While the platform’s other stars pull pranks in the hopes of going viral, Miles McKenna is helping fans figure out who they are.
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Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic YouTube Star Jake Paul’s Fame Is Fading
The 21-year-old became enormously popular for his outrageous prank videos—but if his recent New York show is any indication, it may not last forever.
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Shutterstock / Blue Planet Studio Instagram’s Wannabe-Stars Are Driving Luxury Hotels Crazy
Hotels are being forced to figure out how to work with a new class of brand-peddling marketers.
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Seth Wenig / AP Gambling Channels Are the Latest Victims of YouTube's Arbitrary Moderation Process
"This is my full-time job. You spend so many years to build it up and they can just erase it with one button."
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self_maintaining / glowingstaars / selfcarehoneyb / Instagram / ... How Instagram Threads Became the WikiHow for Gen Z
How does a Google-averse generation figure out how to deal with acne, fake friends, and boy trouble? On Instagram, of course.
