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Corp affairs @SynthesiaIO | Founder @BlackKnight_ltd | Advisor @MBZUAI | Guns N' Roses, 🏀, Philip K. Dick, intelligent machines, peanut butter + maple syrup
Mar 23, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Today, @instagram is introducing Favorites and Following, two new ways to choose what you see in your feed.

We want you to be able to shape Instagram into the best experience, and giving you ways to quickly see what you’re interested in is an important step in that direction. Image Favorites shows you the latest from accounts that you choose, like your best friends and favorite creators.

In addition to this view, posts from accounts in Favorites will also show up higher in your home feed. Image
Dec 30, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
Will makes some good points in his article.

I've seen lots of tech coverage and commentary that conflates social VR or gaming experiences and apps with the metaverse. Whilst a promising start and an indicator for what's to come, these are not yet the metaverse. Just like the internet in the 1990s, the metaverse can feel hard to picture at first. So the best way to talk about social VR and gaming thru a metaverse lens is as starting points on a decade-long journey to the metaverse.
Dec 30, 2021 4 tweets 8 min read
It's December, which means it's time for another edition of my list of amazing reporters who I (secretly or not-so-secretly) admire and recommend everyone should read all the time.

So in no particular order, here are the 21...ish People Who Rocked In 2021 🥳👇 Tech/business: @shionamc, @Tech_Correspond, @Sheila_Dang, @HaysKali, @sarafischer, @kyliebytes, @Melissahei, @MORGANMEAKER, @TaylorLorenz, @MsHannahMurphy, @iuliaionescuro, @ulonnaya, @parmy, @stokel, @Kantrowitz, @shonaghosh (and everyone on her team at BI), @Ryan_Browne_
Dec 28, 2021 24 tweets 10 min read
2021 has been a great year for 🎸music.

Here are my favorite 21 albums released this year, listed in no particular order ⬇️ ⚰️21. Death by Rock and Roll by The Pretty Reckless: @TPROfficial: open.spotify.com/album/7DIpDSIh…
Apr 28, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
While I was speaking at an event last week, someone asked me to give an example of a journalist who is using social media effectively.

Here is the long version of my answer: alexvoica.com/journalist-cre…

🧵👇 There are many amazing reporters (@ameliargh, @stokel, @TaylorLorenz, @RVT9 or @linzasaur, to name a few) who *use* social media to promote their reporting, interact directly with their audience, source material for their articles, and chat about their beat in general.
Apr 19, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
To give people more control and choice over their data, today we're announcing that Facebook posts and notes can be directly transferred to @googledocs, @Blogger and @WordPress via our Transfer Your Information tool:

about.fb.com/news/2021/04/t… Image These updates extend the reach of the tool that already enables people to transfer their photos and videos to @backblaze, @Dropbox, @googlephotos and Koofr: about.fb.com/news/2020/09/e…
Feb 23, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Today, Facebook is introducing Facebook Shop to consumers in the UK, a new place to shop and discover new brands and products in the Facebook app: telegraph.co.uk/technology/202… (via @hannaheboland)

🧵👇 Starting from today, Facebook users in the UK will see Shop featured as a bookmark on the Facebook menu bar and in the mobile app.

The Shop experience for consumers will feature curated collections, products and recent posts from businesses of all sizes.
Jan 15, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
A quick history of Rust (@rustlang) at Facebook, 🧵👇

Facebook initially adopted Rust in 2017 for a project to develop a new source control service. That project had stringent performance and correctness requirements so the team decided that Rust was a better fit than C++. [1/5] Rust adoption has been expanding steadily since then, with hundreds of engineers using it for dozens of projects such as Diem, Hack, or Mononoke.

We've been using it to write developer tools, which make a good environment for experimenting with a new language. [2/5]
Oct 9, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Today, @fbsecurity is announcing several updates to our bug bounty program as it approaches its 10th anniversary in 2021, including:
- FBDL, a universal language for bug reporting
- Hacker Plus, an industry-first loyalty program for security researchers

🧵👇

(tip @Techmeme) FBDL stands for Facebook Bug Description Language. It is a solution to the long-standing challenge of reproducing and communicating the bugs around various security scenarios: facebook.com/BugBounty/post…

Check it out at facebook.com/whitehat/fbdl