demise

5Dec

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POLITICS

Black Twitter’s Expected Demise Would Make It Harder To Publicize Police Brutality And Discuss Racism

Before the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and Sandra Bland were propelled into the media spotlight, their names were Twitter #hashtags. In 2020, Twitter was essential to the spread of historic Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality across the world. But Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has thrown the future of Black Twitter into question. Social media users argue that the takeover has already had an impact on the Black social media community. For instance, not only do multiple sources report an almost immediate spike in the use of the N-word, but Musk has also allegedly mocked Black Lives Matter in general and the group’s apparel found at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, California. The impact of Musk’s takeover is so abundantly clear that...

With The Demise Of Twitter The World Would Lose: Valuable Eyewitness Accounts And Raw Data On Human Behavior, As Well As A Habitat For Trolls

26May

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SOCIAL MEDIA

With The Demise Of Twitter The World Would Lose: Valuable Eyewitness Accounts And Raw Data On Human Behavior, As Well As A Habitat For Trolls

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest fires, and public health professionals trying to predict enrollment in health insurance exchanges have in common? They all rely on analyzing data from Twitter. Twitter is a microblogging service, meaning it’s designed for sharing posts of short segments of text and embedded audio and video clips. The ease with which people can share information among millions of others worldwide on Twitter has made it very popular for real-time conversations. Whether it is people tweeting about their favorite sports teams, or organizations and public figures using Twitter to reach a mass audience, Twitter has been part of the collec...

27Jan

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IN OTHER NEWS, SOCIAL MEDIA

Boomers Blamed For Demise Of Emoji

So, have you heard? Supposedly, the laugh cry emoji has become uncool and using it is a sure sign you're old. Stop the presses! Gen Z - those born after 1997 - have apparently declared this to be so on social media, especially TikTok. This despite the fact that the emoji has been extremely popular since 2017. As a CNN article noted: "'Face with Tears of Joy,' the official name for the laughing crying emoji, is the most-used emoji on Emojitracker, a website that shows real-time emoji use on Twitter." In 2020, it was still the most popular emoji. So, what happened? Are Baby Boomers to Blame? Of course, as with everything else, we boomers are being blamed for its demise. Jeremy Burge, the chief emoji officer of Emojipedia, recently wrote a blog post that said: "It's common wisdom on Tik...

The Coal Power’s Demise, What’s Really Driving It

4Apr

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BUSINESS

The Coal Power’s Demise, What’s Really Driving It

People often point to plunging natural gas prices as the reason U.S. coal-fired power plants have been shutting down at a faster pace in recent years. However, new research shows two other forces had a much larger effect: federal regulation and a well-funded activist campaign that launched in 2011 with the goal of ending coal power. We studied the retirement of U.S. coal-fired units from January 2008 to September 2016 and compared the effects of various market factors, regulations and activism on their early closure. In all, 348 coal-fired units either retired or switched to natural gas during that time. Among the many pressures on coal power that we reviewed, a federal regulation implemented in 2015 had the biggest overall effect. The Cross State Air Pollution Rule requires states to re...