Social Networks

Twitter isn’t the biggest social network out there: Both Facebook and Instagram are significantly bigger, and Snapchat also has surpassed Twitter’s daily user base.But two of Twitter’s top execs focused on the entertainment industry, Sarah Rosen and Lara Cohen, say they’re looking to deliver on quality of engagement for their partners, not just quantity of followers. On this week’s episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast, Rosen and Cohen broke down how the company teams up with talent and media companies to maximize reach and is regularly developing new tools to connect with fans.Social media has grown far more crowded in the last few years, said Rosen, head of U.S. entertainment and news partnerships for Twitter. Compared with other platforms, she said, “We are the place for realness — and that’s what resonates with users… and people actually read on Twitter, so your words and your tweets matter.” Her group works with TV networks, music companies, publishers and other media;  » Read More

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Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice.A loan shark who used Snapchat to promote his illegal money lending business has been jailed for 16 months. Rovin Mavunga, aged 24, of Doncaster, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday. The illegal lender paid a Snapchat influencer to advertise his services online and even used social media to threaten his victims when they could not afford to make repayments, a court heard today. Simon Mortimer, prosecuting, said Mavunga offered short-term, high-interest loans to 130 borrowers through Snapchat over a 22-month period in a “organised, sophisticated and profitable illegal business”. Mavunga charged interest rates of just under 100% on loans and pocketed £140,000 in repayments from his debtors. He increased their repayments arbitrarily and added penalty charges with threats of violence for late and missed payments. Have you been a victim of a loan shark? Tell us your story: emma.munbodh@mirror.co.uk In once case, he used Snapchat to threaten to burn a victim's house down before increasing his payments from £1,000 to £7,000 (Image: (Photo credit…

A loan shark from Doncaster who advertised his illegal money lending business on social media has been jailed.Rovin Mavunga, aged 24, was sentenced to 16 months in prison at Sheffield Crown Court.He advertised loans on the social media platform Snapchat and charged almost 100% interest, demanding repayment within a month.The court heard that Mavunga sent threatening and intimidating messages when repayments were late. One victim, a single mother, was attacked in the street.Sentencing Mavunga, Recorder Megan Rhys said the sort of people who approached him for loans were vulnerable both financially and personally.She said Mavunga’s business targeted these individuals and was a well organised operation.More to follow...

Rovin Mavunga, aged 24, of Union Street was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on June 30.He has been jailed for 16 months after it came to light that he was charging loans at almost 100 per cent interest and threatening victims if they missed repayments on social media.Sentencing Mavuga, Miss Recorder M Rhys said: “he had used appalling conduct taking advantage of people who were personally and financially vulnerable.Sign up to our daily newsletterThe i newsletter cut through the noise He has been sent to jail for 16 months.The judge stated that people who borrowed from Mavunga “did not borrow large amounts for extravagant lifestyles but for basic needs” and were “understandably terrified” by the threats made as their debts “escalated beyond all recognition.”Simon Mortimer, prosecuting, said: “Mavunga offered short-term, high-interest loans to 130 borrowers through Snapchat over a 22 month period in an ‘organised, sophisticated and profitable illegal business’.”Mavunga pocketed £140,000 in repayment from his debtors.He increased their repayments arbitrarily and added harsh penalty charges with threats of violence for late and missed payments.Mavunga was arrested in January 2020 when officers from the England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT), working in partnership with Doncaster Trading Standards and South Yorkshire…

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PIX11 Morning News by: Dan Mannarino, Vanessa Freeman, Marcia Parris Posted: Jun 30, 2021 / 10:04 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 30, 2021 / 10:04 AM EDT NEW YORK — The pandemic didn’t keep this comedian from doing stand up. She just went and put on a show from her garage. Mary Lynn Rajskub is not just bringing laughs, her new movie has her going into battle in the future. The actress, comedian and writer spoke with PIX11 News to discuss her new movie “The Tomorrow War.”Rajskub’s comedy special “Live From the Pandemic,” is currently on Vimeo. Catch her film “The Tomorrow War” beginning Friday on Amazon Prime Video.

Anmol Mehrotra Neowin @@anmol_112 · Jun 30, 2021 08:22 EDT Earlier this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp head Will Cathcart confirmed that WhatsApp will soon allow users to send disappearing images. This came months after the company announced support for disappearing messages on the platform. The new disappearing media option will allow users to send photos or videos that will be deleted after they have been opened. It works similar to Snapchat and deletes the media file as soon as it has been viewed. The implementation is simple, and you can follow the steps below to try it out for yourself: Open WhatsApp and select the contact that you want to send the disappearing media to. Select the image or video from your gallery or take a photo using the camera option in WhatsApp. Once selected, tap on the little circle tucked between the caption bar and the send button. This will set the media so that it can be viewed once and will then disappear. Unlike Snapchat, WhatsApp does not prevent users from taking screenshots so it should be used with trusted contacts only. Furthermore, the sender can see when the media was opened, even if you…

Fresh off of his recent bout with COVID, right-wing pundit and professional anti-Semite Rick Wiles says that Jesus Christ Himself is responsible for shutting down Right Wing Watch’s YouTube channel. (The channel had been suspended for violating YouTube’s hate speech policies, which was especially ironic because the site specializes in quoting right-wing commentators verbatim. Many of their videos were somehow still available on YouTube.) Wiles celebrated the ban because he saw it as God’s way of shutting down criticism of “His servants.” “I suspect that there will be layoffs very soon inside the organization because there’s no platform for them to spew their lies and propaganda,” Wiles declared, clearly unaware that YouTube is just one of several social media platforms Right Wing Watch uses to share our content. “So their writers, their editors, all the people that they had working to smear us and other ministries, what are they gonna do? I suspect they’re gonna lose their jobs this week.” “Let me make this very clear today: Jesus Christ shut down Right Wing Watch,” Wiles celebrated. “Not YouTube. Jesus Christ shut down Right Wing Watch today. This is an example of God working through unsaved people at YouTube to carry…